Bloodhound calls on best of UK motorsport engineering
The engineers behind the Bloodhound Project are calling on the cream of the UK's motorsport engineering companies to help ensure that construction of the 1000mph supersonic car is completed by December 2012.
The Bloodhound SSC team has partnered with the Motorsport Industry Association (MIA) to launch a range of design and manufacture work packages, which detail the 3000 bespoke components needed to take the vehicle from the research and design stage into production.
A list of components requiring either final design and/or manufacture can be found on the MIA's website, where business can find the parts indexed by specialism, e.g. CAD design, additive manufacture, CNC machining, composites, and so on.
Businesses are invited to select and quote for the work packages they are interested in undertaking. If accepted, design drawings, and where applicable the tooling and materials, will then be provided to them.
"UK motorsport engineering is the best in the world" said Richard Noble, Bloodhound project director. "We're delighted to partner with the Motorsport Industry Association to launch our supersonic work packages, as they sit at the heart of British motorsport and offer access to over 9,000 leading UK technology companies.
"The Bloodhound Project is accelerating rapidly as the engineering team cracks on with the build phase. Support from the UK motorsport community will be invaluable in helping meet our very tight deadlines."
The Bloodhound team is hoping to produce a rolling chassis by Christmas 2012, with UK runway tests scheduled for Q2 2013. High speed testing on the desert race track, Hakskeen Pan, South Africa is slated for Q3 2013.
