Race team launch livery at Autosport International

The University of Wolverhampton Race Team (UWR) have launched their racing livery at Autosport International ahead of the 2025 racing season.  

The UWRacing Revolution 500 EVO was officially unveiled by the team alongside British manufacturer Revolution Race Cars at Europe’s largest motorsport show on 9 January.  

The car will be driven by Shane Kelly, racing driver and Team Manager for UWR, to compete in the Equipe Sports Prototypes series and maintained by the University's student-run racing team throughout the season.  

The launch of the car comes following a new and exciting partnership announced between the team and Revolution Race Cars.  

The partnership will see Revolution work closely with the University to create additional learning opportunities, including hands-on experience at the Revolution Race Cars factory in Peterborough.  

While students will be able to benefit from real-world assembly and engineering experiences, the University will also offer Revolution access to its advanced prototyping facilities, further strengthening the partnership. 

Attendees at Autosport also got a first glimpse of the University’s WOLF RS Chassis. The WOLF RS project is a design and build programme which will see the race team design a racing car chassis for multi-mode use.   

The chassis on show at Autosport marked the start of the single-seater project for hill-climb events. The car will then be re-engineered around the core components to produce a circuit-racing single-seater.  

Looking ahead to the new season and on the partnership with Revolution, Shane said: “We’ve already hit the ground running in preparing for the new season which we are looking forward to. 

“It will be a learning curve and I’m very excited to drive the car.  

“The partnership with Revolution is an important one as one thing we strive for is having access to the latest technology, for example, traction control and power steering.  

“These are technologies in Formula One already. Whether students are striving to get into F1 or GT Championships, having access to state-of-the-art equipment can only be good for their development.  

“The equipment and expertise our race team have will be beneficial for Revolution for them to tap into and use our students for design and machine shop work.”  

Nigel Redwood, Managing Director at Revolution Race Cars, said: “Our relationship with UWR started in early-summer last year at Spa-Francorchamps when we shared a garage at a race weekend.  

“We got to see how UWR operate as a race team and we were very impressed with their work ethic and what students were shown to help them develop. 

“We’re keen to work with the University on prototype projects which will benefit students. We’ll also be at race weekends supporting UWR with spare parts and provide technical support and continue to make sure we have a two-way relationship. 

“We’re looking forward to working with Shane and seeing how the students grow and develop throughout the year working at our factory but also on race weekends too.”  

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