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ルマンなどで戦う耐久レースカーに3Dプリント技術が活用されている。
現時点では10パーセントだが、8割に将来はなるだろうという。
開発には有効なようだ。

BBCより。
3D printing: From racing cars to dresses to human tissue
http://m.bbc.com/news/business-29114744"It's a very exciting technology, it gives us the benefit of reduced lead times, reduced costs and really increases the flexibility for our engineers to be creative.

"Concept to final product used to be a minimum of maybe four weeks, whereas now it can be the next day."

Strakka Racing's Dan Walmsley is talking about their new prototype car, the Strakka Dome S103.

It's a racer that has to be hardy; it's designed for the World Endurance championship, a series that includes the Le Mans 24 hour. In that one race it will travel further than a F1 vehicle does in an entire season.

"[3D printing] enables us to try things, to test things, sometimes we're right, sometimes we're wrong, but it gives us a clear direction, it enables us to extract the best performance from the car."…