Pilbeam Racing Designs is a motorsport design consultancy & manufacturing company based in the rural market town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, England. After design spells at Lotus and BRM, culminating in the position of Chief Designer at the latter, Mike Pilbeam set up his own company and during the course of the next ten years designed and built cars that raced in Formula 1, 2, 3, 4, Formula Atlantic, Formula Ford 2000 and Formula Renault. Following this period, a new and productive collaboration with GM emerged. From this came Nova, Vectra, Cavalier and Calibra Rally cars, Astra and Cavalier Touring cars and a Calibra Thundersaloon. The high regard developed for the Vauxhall 2 litre touring car engine led to this being selected for the MP62 Hillclimb car. In recent years, Pilbeam have been responsible for the design and component manufacture of Honda Accord and Peugeot 406 Super Tourers, Vauxhall Vectra V6 SRi Challenge cars, and the Hyundai Coupe F2 Rally car. We also design and manufacture new suspension components to fit the Lotus Elise and 340R. As well as designing and building complete racing cars, we also perform sub-component manufacture for other manufacturers, such as Ford Motorsport. Advanced computerised design techniques are used to create and develop new racing and rally cars, but many years of experience is also used to ensure the best final result. Few companies can boast such a long and successful history in motor racing and in such a wide variety of projects. An exciting new chapter in the 25 year history of the company was opened when the MP84 Sports Racing Car made its competitive debut in Round 3 of the International Sports Racing Series (ISRS) at Spa Francorchamps in May of 1999. This state of the art SR2/LMP2 class sports car represents the marques' re-entry into mainstream circuit racing. MP84 - 02, the first production car, completed only 2 days before the event, won Round 5 of the ISRS at Donington, England on the 18th of July 1999. Visitors to the new factory cannot help but be impressed by the very best equipment from fully equipped CNC machine shop to an advanced fabrication and assembly unit producing high quality components and racing cars. An inspection of the design office will reveal highly qualified engineers using twin screen CAD systems to produce the winning solutions for the touring cars, rally cars and single seaters. The move to new premises, purpose built in 1996, has increased Pilbeam's capacity and capabilities to take on larger projects and has moved them from a small operation to a dynamic professional player.