High-Performance Composites for Superior Motorsports
The motorsport manufacturing industry faces increasingly complex challenges due to frequent changes to regulations coupled with high-service demands, and motorsport OEMs continue to seek new methods to maximize the threshold of performance and safety. Made primarily of composites, Formula One cars and other motorsport vehicles require extremely high-performance materials that can withstand harsh operating conditions, meet evolving specifications and perform under pressure.
As an established leader in composites for automotive applications, Syensqo proactively develops innovative material solutions to facilitate technical advantages and ease of processing for motorsport OEMs. In fact, over the last twenty years, every single Formula One World Drivers’ Champion was driving a vehicle made almost entirely of Syensqo components. Our extensive range of composites enables short lead times for rapid prototyping of structural components and offers enhanced tooling technology to develop today’s most advanced motorsport vehicles.
Our Solutions for Motorsports Applications
Aerodynamics
Aerodynamic components in motorsport require a variety of unique properties to meet the fast-paced demands of the industry. Syensqo’s CYCOM® and MTM® composites offer several key benefits, such as excellent design freedom, rapid prototyping, manufacturing flexibility and outstanding structural performance.
Chassis
Well-designed motorsport chassis applications lower overall vehicle weight for increased performance and improved vehicle efficiency. Our composite materials for motorsport chassis, such as CYCOM® and MTM® offer an exceptional combination of lightweighting, stiffness, temperature resistance, and impact strength.
Engine, Gear Box, and Oil Tanks
Motorsport vehicles require unique engines, gearboxes, and oil tanks to reduce vehicle mass and improve performance and enhance overall design freedom. Syensqo’s CYCOM®, LTM®, MTM®, and HTM® composites are optimal for use in these secondary structural components, as they provide excellent performance in harsh conditions, good chemical resistance, and extreme temperature compatibility.
Impact Structures
Motorsport impact structures must exhibit outstanding crash, safety and fatigue performance in front, side and rear applications. Syensqo’s composites for motorsport impact structures—CYCOM® and MTM®—offer superior impact strength, stiffness, energy absorption and design freedom compared to conventional materials.
Suspension
Suspension systems in innovative motorsport vehicles require improved lightweighting, increased energy absorption, and reduced noise and vibration. Our composite material solutions, specifically the CYCOM®, MTM®, and HTM® product families, deliver all of these advantageous properties, making them optimal for use in various motorsport suspension applications.
Tooling
Motorsport tooling applications require significant design flexibility to ensure a fit-for-purpose solution. Syensqo’s tooling prepregs—DForm® Fabric and CYFORM® 22—offer outstanding surface finish and longevity for complex mold tools and soft tooling technology such as intensifiers and caul sheets.
Alternative Motorsports
Our broad portfolio of composite solutions and specialty polymers provides OEMs with a variety of materials for Formula E, hydrogen vehicles, and other new initiatives, such as flying motorsports. Our vast selection of polymers, including KetaSpire® PEEK, Torlon® PAI, Amodel® PPA, and many more, helps manufacturers bridge the gap between imagination and reality.
Advanced Composites for Motorsports
Syensqo offers a comprehensive range of composite materials optimized for the high-performance demands in motorsport. These composites, adhesives, films and prepregs are designed to facilitate exceptional high-temperature and impact-resistant applications, and offer outstanding stiffness, lightweighting properties, energy absorption and design freedom for rapid prototyping. Our portfolio of solutions for motorsport includes CYCOM®, MTM®, LTM®, HTM®, FM®, HTA®, MTA®, DForm® Fabric and tooling prepregs. Additionally, we offer a selection of polymer solutions for alternative propulsion motorsports - such as Formula E or hydrogen-based vehicles - which includes KetaSpire® PEEK, Torlon® PAI, Amodel® PPA and more.
