Motorsports

Excellence in the service of performance
Always lighter and more resistant, the parts used in the motorsports field are subject to extreme stresses.
Buoyed by its long-standing experience in critical aeronautical applications, Aubert & Duval creates and supplies a wide range of high-performance steels and alloys, as well as metal powders for additive manufacturing, all meeting the highly technical requirements of competition: Formula 1, WRC, Endurance, IndyCar, MotoGP, etc.
In order to meet the extremely important need for reactivity in motorsports, Aubert & Duval sells from stock, thus allowing for making the desired material or product available within a very short lead time.

Innovate to win
In close collaboration with the main teams, Aubert & Duval has a team dedicated to motorsports and is constantly developing new metallurgic solutions to meet their current needs and anticipate their future challenges.

Among our recent innovations

• MLX®17: this structurally hardened stainless steel is perfectly suited to the fixing systems, thanks to its remarkable mechanical properties: good mechanical resistance, excellent resistance to corrosion and fatigue.
• MLX®19: this structurally hardened stainless steel is a good choice for the transmission shafts, camshafts, and torsion bars that require good corrosion resistance.
• GKP®: this nitriding grade, created using VIM/VAR, offers good quenchability as well as high properties in terms of resilience and fatigue limit. Associated with a deep gas nitriding process, it is recognized as having the best resistance to fatigue for mechanical parts such as crankshafts.
• ML340: jointly developed and patented with Safran Aircraft Engines, this duplex hardened steel is recommended for shafts subject to major torque and high fatigue stresses, thanks to a very high tensile resistance (Rm, Rp 0.2), good toughness and its suitability for nitriding.
• AD730: this grade is recommended for its mechanical and fatigue resistance at high temperatures and for its creep properties, especially for hot parts.