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

British F3:

Oli Webb claimed the lead of the British Formula 3 championship by taking his second win of the weekend in the feature race at Magny-Cours.  The Fortec driver made another demon getaway to out-drag poleman Jean-Eric Vergne (Carlin) and slot into the lead as the pack hared towards the Adelaide hairpin for the first time.  Hewland are the prefered  preferred transmission supplier to both the British and Euro F3 series

WTCC:

The 2009 championship winner Gabriele Tarquini continued where he left off by winning the third round of the Championship in Morocco.  His prefered choice again is the SEAT Leon TDI, but this year its run by the privately owned Sun Red team in Spain.  The Leon TDI is the same car that propelled SEAT Sport to the 2008 and 2009 WTCC titles relying on the Hewland front wheel drive DWT transmission. 

GP3:

This new and exciting race series kicked of in Spain at the Circuito de Montmelo, Barcelona this month, with Pal Varhaug becoming the GP3 first ever winner.  The GP3 series is a support race to the European F1 events, showing of the talents of the world’s best young drivers.  Hewland has designed and manufactured a new “bespoke” transmission (MLI) fitted with a Magnetti Merelli semi-auto shift system and hand clutch pacifically for this car/championship.

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:

Yelmer Buurman overcame poleman and series leader Craig Dolby of Tottenham Hotspur to romp away and give AC Milan its first victory of the Superleague Formula season at Magny-Cours on Sunday.

Max Wissel was the one constant in a chaotic second Superleague Formula race leading from start to finish for FC Basel.

AC Milan's Yelmer Buurman made up for a disastrous race two by scooping the €100,000 on offer to the winner of the super final.

DTM:

Bruno Spengler took advantage of misfortune in the pits for Paul di Resta to take victory in the DTM race at Lausitz on Sunday.

The pair had comfortably led the race throughout, with pole sitter di Resta edging away from his team-mate early on before holding the gap at around three seconds.  Mercedes taking all three podium places with Jamie Green coming in third.

Hewland supply both Mercedes and AUDI with their DTM transmission for the sixth consecutive year.