CRP Meccanica and CRP Technology, two Italian engineering companies within CRP Group, are supporting MoRe Modena Racing as the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia team opens its 2026 season at Formula SAE Michigan. Held May 13–16 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, the competition marks the first event of the year for the student squad, which arrives in the United States after taking the top spot in the Formula Student World Ranking for Internal combustion vehicles in January 2026. MoRe Modena Racing, competing as Team #32, earned that ranking through three wins in the 2024 season, in Austria, Croatia, and Italy, followed by further strong results in 2025.
Formula SAE Michigan remains one of the oldest and most established events in the Formula SAE calendar. Founded in 1981, it brings together 120 teams from engineering universities around the world. For the Modena-based team, this year’s edition carries added weight because it is the first time it enters the Michigan event as the highest-ranked Internal Combustion team in the Formula Student World Ranking. That standing gives added context to a season opener that also places an Italian university team on one of the best-known stages in student motorsport.
CRP Group’s partnership with MoRe Modena Racing began in 2024 under a two-year renewable agreement and has already shaped both the M24-LH functional prototype and its 2026 update, the M26-LH. CRP Meccanica handled high-precision CNC machining on the steering support and clutch lever, components made from Scalmalloy aluminum alloy through DMLS metal 3D printing. Its work also included lathe operations for gear wheel blanks, CFRP rim turning, and electric motor case machining. For the current season, the machining company produced new hubs from solid Ergal 7075 aluminum billet, an aerospace-grade alloy identified in the team material as suited to the load demands of Formula SAE competition.
CRP Technology contributed a set of aerodynamic and support parts for the M24-LH using Selective Laser Sintering and several materials from the Windform range. Top covers of the upper and lower cascade winglet of the front wing were produced in Windform SL, a carbon fiber-filled material described as ultra-light. The same material was also used for the top cover of the turning vane of the front wing and for the steering wheel gear-shift paddles. Back cover and rib elements of the front-wing turning vane were made in Windform XT 2.0, a carbon fiber-reinforced composite selected for high mechanical properties. Front, central, and rear connection covers were manufactured in Windform TPU, while support components for bus bars and windings were produced in Windform LX 3.0, a glass fiber-reinforced composite.
Franco Cevolini, CEO and CTO of CRP Meccanica and CRP Technology, framed the collaboration as both an industrial and educational effort. “We are proud to accompany MoRe Modena Racing on their first American adventure. This partnership perfectly embodies what doing business means to us: not just manufacturing excellent components, but transferring skills, opening our laboratories to the engineers of tomorrow. Seeing these students compete on the circuit where Formula SAE was born is a satisfaction that goes far beyond any sporting result.” Filippo Pullano, team leader of MoRe Modena Racing, linked that support to the team’s broader ecosystem in Italy’s Motor Valley. “For us, being represented by companies that are part of our Motor Valley is an honor and a privilege. We could not be where we are without their substantial contribution. CRP above all has been supporting us for years, and we could not be more honored by that. It is thanks to the support of all of them that we are able to make our dreams a reality!”
Background provided with the announcement places the partnership within longer industrial timelines. CRP Meccanica reports more than 55 years of work in high-precision CNC machining for motorsport, automotive, aerospace, defense, and marine sectors. CRP Technology reports more than 30 years of SLS 3D printing services built around its proprietary Windform advanced composite materials. MoRe Modena Racing enters Formula SAE Michigan with world-leader status in the Internal Combustion category, while the Michigan event itself opens another test of how student racing programs continue to integrate machining, metal 3D printing, polymer 3D printing, and composite engineering into competition vehicle development.
Racing teams use 3D printing to solve packaging, heat, and materials constraints
Formula SAE teams have already been using additive manufacturing where conventional fabrication creates clear limits. One recent example came from USC Racing, which worked with Wayland Additive, a UK metal additive manufacturing company, to produce a titanium exhaust collector for its 2025 car. That part normally required welding nine custom 1 mm titanium tubes by hand, a slow process with limited margin for error. Using Wayland’s NeuBeam process on the Calibur3 system, the team reduced the collector’s length by 50%, addressing tight packaging constraints inside the vehicle while also limiting residual stress and post-processing. In that case, metal 3D printing mattered because it enabled a geometry and manufacturing route that conventional methods made harder to execute under Formula SAE conditions.
Broader motorsport activity points to a similar pattern: 3D printing is increasingly being used where material performance and part weight directly affect vehicle design. Lyten, a San Jose-based materials company, recently launched a motorsports division focused on parts made with its 3D Graphene materials platform. Working alongside INDYCAR Experience in Indianapolis, the company has been developing 3D printed components and lightweight alternatives to heavier metal parts for racing applications. That effort helps frame CRP Group’s work with MoRe Modena Racing in more specific terms. In both cases, additive manufacturing is not being presented as a general innovation story, but as a way to produce parts that respond to design constraints tied to strength, weight, manufacturability, and vehicle integration.
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Featured image shows The M26-LH on track. Photo via CRP Group.
