2003
Class 3 victory
An early Formula Student win that helped establish Swansea's student race-engineering programme.
Formula Student · Technical partnership
Engineering support for the people building the car
Swansea University Race Engineering (SURE)
Swansea University Race Engineering turns classroom knowledge into a running competition car. Llandow Tuning supports that process with the diagnostic, wiring and ECU experience needed when designs meet real hardware.
- Programme
- Formula Student
- Competition story
- 2001—2026
- ECU expertise
- Haltech · DTAFast
The programme
Student engineering, developed through competition
Swansea University Race Engineering (SURE) is the university's student-led Formula Student team. Students design, manufacture, test and compete with a formula-style car, gaining practical experience across every system on the vehicle.
The story begins with SR-01 at Formula Student UK in 2001 and continues through competition in the UK and Europe to the current SR-26 programme. Each generation inherits the lessons of the cars before it and adds its own engineering work.
Llandow Tuning supports that process with workshop experience in diagnostics, motorsport wiring, ECU configuration, calibration and data-led fault finding. We help the team move from a symptom to a test, and from a test to a useful engineering decision.
The students own the design. Our role is to help turn testing, data and workshop experience into confident engineering decisions.
Workshop-to-track support
What Llandow Tuning contributes
The work sits where electrical design, engine behaviour and track reliability meet.
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Diagnostics and fault finding
Structured testing helps the team separate wiring, sensor, mechanical and calibration faults instead of relying on guesswork.
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Motorsport wiring
Harness routing, termination, grounding, power distribution and sensor integration are reviewed as one vehicle system.
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ECU setup and calibration
Support covers ECU configuration, first-start strategy and calibration decisions suited to a student-built competition car.
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Tuning and data
Logging and controlled testing are used to improve driveability, reliability and the quality of the team's engineering feedback loop.
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ECU
Haltech and DTAFast expertise
Llandow Tuning brings experience across both ECU families, while SURE's engine-management history includes the DTA S60 Pro, S80 Pro and current T8+ generation.
Development in action
From workshop checks to trackside decisions.
Testing brings the whole car together. Sensor behaviour, wiring integrity, ECU configuration and driver feedback all have to agree before the team can move forward with confidence.
Engine management
An ECU lineage the team can learn from
SURE cars have used successive generations of DTAFast engine management. Llandow Tuning adds practical setup and calibration experience across both DTAFast and Haltech systems, helping the team connect ECU decisions with the behaviour of the complete car.
Alongside DTAFast development, our Haltech experience gives the team access to a broader engine-management knowledge base.
- 2011 DTA S60 Pro SR-11 engine management
- 2012—16 DTA S80 Pro Used across successive SURE cars
- 2026 DTAFast T8+ Current SR-26 development
- Workshop Haltech Llandow Tuning setup and calibration expertise
The current programme
SR-26 carries the development forward.
The 2026 car continues more than two decades of student-led Formula Student engineering. Current work includes wiring-loom development and DTAFast T8+ validation as the team prepares the next chapter of its competition story.
Follow the SURE programmeThe current generation of SURE Formula Student machinery in motion. Photo: Swansea University Race Engineering
Competition highlights
A record worth celebrating.
Across Formula Student events in the UK and Europe, generations of SURE students have delivered class victories, efficiency awards, endurance success and a growing body of practical race-engineering experience.
2005
Class 1 (200) victory
A major competitive milestone as the team moved into the top level of Formula Student competition.
2006—07
Back-to-back efficiency wins
First place for Fuel Efficiency across Formula Student events in the UK and Germany.
2008—09
Runner-up and endurance success
A Class 1 runner-up finish in 2008 followed by third place in Endurance in 2009.
2025
Endurance completed
The team passed scrutineering and completed the Formula Student UK endurance event.
Competition history
More than two decades of Formula Student.
From SR-01 to the current SR-26 programme, SURE has taken its student-built cars to Formula Student events in the UK, Germany, Hungary and Italy.
2026
SR-26
Formula Student UK programme
The current car brings together a new wiring loom and DTAFast T8+ engine management as development continues.
2025
SR-25
Formula Student UK
The team passed scrutineering and completed the endurance event.
2023
SR-23
Formula Student UK and Italy
A two-event European programme took SURE to competition in both the UK and Italy.
2021
SR-21
Formula Student UK
SR-21 continued Swansea's Formula Student programme at the UK event.
2019
SR-19
Formula Student UK
SR-19 represented the next generation of Swansea student engineers at Formula Student UK.
2017
SR-17
Formula Student UK
The SR-17 programme continued the team's regular Formula Student UK competition activity.
2016
SR-16
Formula Student UK
SR-16 combined the team's developing chassis package with DTA S80 engine management.
2015
SR-15
Formula Student UK
Another complete design, build and competition cycle for the student team.
2014
SR-14
Formula Student UK and Hungary
SURE competed in the UK and Hungary and achieved second place in Costing.
2012
SR-12
Formula Student UK
The SR-12 programme used a DTA S80 Pro ECU as the team's engine-management development continued.
2011
SR-11
Formula Student UK
SR-11 introduced a documented DTA S60 Pro installation to the programme.
2009
SR-09
Formula Student UK
The team achieved third place in the Endurance event.
2008
Team milestone
Formula Student Class 1
SURE finished as Class 1 runner-up.
2007
SR-07
Formula Student UK and Germany
A second consecutive first place in Fuel Efficiency.
2006
SR-06
Formula Student UK and Germany
First place in Fuel Efficiency as the programme expanded into European competition.
2005
Team milestone
Formula Student Class 1 (200)
SURE secured a Class 1 (200) victory.
2004
SR-04
Formula Student UK
SR-04 continued the team's early run of student-designed Formula Student cars.
2003
Team milestone
Formula Student Class 3
SURE achieved a Class 3 victory.
2002
SR-02
Formula Student UK
The second Swansea car built on the experience gained from the inaugural programme.
2001
SR-01
Formula Student UK
The first SURE car established Swansea's Formula Student programme.
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