Hewland News     News from the Professional Motor Show Cologne 2010
Exhibiting at its first trade show in around five years, Hewland Engineering brought its brand-new LLS/LWS six-speed transaxle gearbox for GT cars to Professional MotorSport World Expo. Superseding the highly successful NLT design, the LLS (and its high-torque LWS version) can run as a sequential manual but has been designed from the ground up for semi-automatic operation, with the necessary actuators and air compressor built in as required.
F3    

News from FormulaSPEED 2.0:

 “We have won countless races and championships with Hewland transaxles and gears,” stated FS2.0 Project Manager Mark Milazzo. “We currently have 27 racecars in our stable and all of them are outfitted with Hewland products. We had some very good offers to use transaxles from other companies, and we could have saved some money in production, but we believe in only using the best components in our competition cars and that meant a Hewland product.” ...more

 

F3    

 

British F3:

Adriano Buzaid claimed his second British Formula 3 win of the season by dominating the 40-minute 'feature' race at Snetterton.  The Brazilian started from pole and led from lights to flag to add to his success in the reversed grid race during the previous round at Silverstone.  His recently-crowned champion Carlin team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne threatened briefly on the run to the first corner at the start, but Buzaid resisted and thereafter sped on to an unchallenged 7.5-second victory.  All leading teams rely on Hewland transmissions

  

       
 
Formula 2 News    

F2:

Kazim Vasiliauskas waited until the final race of the 2010 Formula 2 season in Velencia to score his only victory of the year.  He made a flying start from pole position and kept second-placed Jack Clarke at arm's length throughout the 21 laps to finish his season on a high.  All transmissions are supplied by Hewland Engineering Ltd

 

 
     

 

       
WTCC News    

WTCC:

SEAT took two wins at Valencia,  Gabriele Tarquini re-ignited his championship challenge by winning today's first  race and Tiago Monteiro the second.  Gabriele the reigning champion had lost ground to series leader Yvan Muller over the last two rounds, but stopped the rot by leading from start to finish at SEAT's home circuit.  All SEAT WTCC race cars rely on Hewland transmissions.

 

 
GP3 News   

GP3:

Last weekend at Monza ARI driver Esteban Gutierrez secured the inaugural GP3 Series title by taking pole position and victory in race one.  Robert Wickens for Status GP claimed victory in race two.  Another series supplied by Hewland Engineering Ltd

 

       
Hewland News    

Chevron:

The Chevron GR8 Challenge has its first race at Silverstone this weekend; this is a new race car introduce this season and relies on a Hewland JFR gearbox.

 

GT:
The factory Jaguar RSR team is set to contest the Autosport 1000km race at Silverstone in September as part of its attack on the inaugural Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.  The Jaguar RSR is being developed over this season in the ultra competitive GT2 class of the ALMS.  Hewland is please to have supplied the factory RSR GT2 Jaguar with a Hewland transmission.

 

Superleague Formula:

John Martin won the first Superleague Formula race of round nine at Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal for Beijing Guoan and Former A1GP champion Neel Jani dominated the second. Frederic Vervisch produced an amazing start to win the Algarve Superleague Formula super final for Liverpool, scooping the €100,000 top prize.Vervisch, in only his second-ever Superleague race weekend, rocketed from fourth to first off the standing start to lead Davide Rigon (Anderlecht) and John Martin (Beijing Guoan) into Turn 1 and never looked back.  All Superleague transmissions are supplied by Hewland.

 

 

 

DTM:

 

The ninth DTM season round at the Hockenheim saw Paul Di Resta (Mercedes-Benz) claim victory in an action-packed race. With this third victory in the current season, the Scot also took over the lead in the drivers’ standings, in which he is now on top with 63 points ahead of Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz).Hewland supply both Mercedes and AUDI with their DTM transmission for the ninth consecutive year.

 

 

AUTOSPORT 1000km

LMP2:

Strakka Racing secures another LMP2 win last weekend at Silverstone, Nick Leventis, Danny Watts and Jonny Kane enjoyed a stunning run in the race to claim the LMP2 victory, HPD transmissions are manufacturer and supplied by Hewland Engineering Ltd.
LMGT2:

The GT2 category was won by, AF Corse’s Jaime Melo and Gianmaria Bruni I their Ferrari 430.  Ferrari GT cars all rely on Hewland designed and manufactured transmission.