Revolution Race Cars collaborates with Wessex Resins & Adhesives to drive innovation through advanced composite technology.

Revolution Race Cars has announced an exciting new venture with Wessex Resins & Adhesives, uniting two pioneering forces in advanced composite engineering. The alliance applies technical expertise, built across decades of marine and elite racing applications, directly to the design and manufacture of advanced composite structures.

PRO-SET® Epoxies has long been trusted at the highest levels of marine performance, where competition demands an uncompromising balance of lightweight construction, strength, and durability.

Revolution Race Cars has built a global reputation for pushing boundaries of race car design, with more than 70 customers worldwide competing its international Cup-winning 427, 500SC and 500 EVO models. A proven pioneer in bringing advanced infusion technology into customer racing, this engagement with PRO-SET Epoxy represents a significant further step in its commitment to progressive manufacturing techniques.

PRO-SET Epoxy has spent decades at the forefront of advanced composite development, accumulating deep technical knowledge through some of the most demanding applications in marine engineering and elite racing. That expertise, refined through conditions where failure is simply not an option. The company has a reputation in high technology sport on both track and sea, having partnered NASCAR and America’s Cup teams. PRO-SET® Epoxy composite systems will now be utilised in the manufacture of Revolution’s carbon fibre race car structures.

Justin Coulson, Head of Procurement, Revolution Race Cars, said the collaboration is rooted in technical trust and shared ambition: “I was familiar with PRO-SET through previous marine projects and leaned on them heavily when I came to Revolution to find a solution that works for motorsport applications. One of the biggest advantages of working with PRO-SET is the expert technical support they provide. If we have a new design or production idea, we can pick up the phone and work through it together until we find the right solution. It’s a true collaboration.”

Central to the project is Revolution’s use of resin infusion in the construction of carbon fibre monocoques, offering greater flexibility in material selection and reduced energy consumption compared with traditional processes.

“With resin infusion we can tailor fibre types and laminate structures in ways that simply aren’t possible with more conventional processes,” Coulson explained. “With PRO-SET, we can integrate hard points directly into the laminate rather than relying on secondary bonding, which removes potential failure points and improves fatigue performance and durability.”

The process also delivers sustainability benefits, reducing energy consumption by eliminating freezer storage of material and repeated autoclave cycles, efficiency in enabling tailored epoxy solutions that are optimised to work within the parameters of Revolution Race Cars manufacturing processes.

John Watson, Business Account Manager, PRO-SET Epoxy, said: “Marine engineering offers a vast body of knowledge about advanced composites operating in extremely challenging environments. Working with Revolution shows how that experience can be applied outside of the marine environment.”

The collaboration also reflects a mutual commitment to UK-based manufacturing. “PRO-SET is a UK-based manufacturer, which is something we value,” Coulson added. “We take pride in keeping as much of our supply chain local as we can, and Wessex Resins & Adhesives aligns perfectly with that commitment.”

The collaboration will make its public debut this weekend, with a PRO-SET® livery adorning one of the Revolution 500 EVO race cars in the Equipe Sports Prototypes series at Silverstone.