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News Release from: Eriks UK
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Team on 12 December 2005
Wyko aids Aston Martin motor racing bid
Wyko's Motorsport Team based in Oxford supplies bearing and sealing products for use in the development and campaigning of the Aston Martin DBR9 race cars in their first race season.
Wyko's Motorsport Team based in Oxford has supplied bearing and sealing products for use in the development and campaigning of the Aston Martin DBR9 race cars in their first race season Wyko worked with the designers and purchasing team on the parts required to develop and build the cars
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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These included needle roller bearings, precision angular contact wheel bearings, suspension rod ends and Viton seals.
Geoff Cox, Wyko Motorsport Business Unit Manager, said: "It has been exciting watching the Aston Martin DBR9 race cars and the components compete in the Le Mans 24 hour and Sebring 12 hour endurance races, as well as the American ALMS and European FIA GT championships".
"The components we supplied were specified to a very high standard, taking into account not just endurance and performance, but weight, material compatibility and prior race experience".
Some products such as high precision miniature bearings and high strength Poly V belts are stock catalogue items, but others such as Viton rotary shaft seals have been specified individually for the car.
Aston Martin Racing is a new division of Aston Martin created to race production-based sports cars in international championships around the world.
The division is a partnership with Prodrive, the company to which Wyko supplied the components.
Prodrive is based in Banbury.
The DBR9 is based on the DB9 production car.
Aston Martin Racing plans to build 12 individually numbered Works cars to be run by Works teams in the major international GT series. Request free introductory details about products from Eriks UK ...
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