The Geartronics business was originally conceived in the year 2000 by sole director Neil Wallace. Based in Sheffield (UK), we are now into our tenth year of trading, primarily engaged in the design and manufacture of display & control electronics for sequential motorsport gearboxes. Originally a part-time business, Geartronics has grown significantly year on year to become one of the most well known and respected suppliers of dedicated gearbox electronics.
At the beginning of 2006 we took the step of becoming a limited company and are now looking forward to an exciting future, supplying the world's racing cars with some of the most technologically advanced gearbox control systems.
Neil started his electronics career back in what he now recalls as the golden years of computing - the early 80's. That's when computer engineers were real engineers who could read a schematic diagram and use a soldering iron! At the age of 25 he built and competed in his first rallycar - a Talbot Sunbeam 1600 Ti.
After being involved in motorsport for almost 20 years he has also gained a wealth of mechanical experience, not only from his own cars, but also from numerous other competition cars. He has been involved in the building and preparation of a plethora of competition cars, ranging from the ubiquitous MK2 Escort to 'works' spec GpA Sierra & Escort Cosworths. Latterly, he has designed, from a clean sheet, a semi-automatic paddleshift system, which is currently being used by most teams in the European formula 3000 championship.
Geartronics Ltd. is still only a relatively small business, but what we lack in size is more than made up by dedication & enthusiasm. All of the design work, and most of the production, is done in-house - where we can better keep track of quality! Keeping work in-house also gives us the benefit of rapid prototyping.
Typically we can take a new product from concept to market in less than 6 months. Even a product as sophisticated as the new paddleshift system has taken less than a year to develop
Our basic philosophy is this: if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing right. We're not in the business of selling a product that only works 99% of the time (or less in the case of some of our competitors!). In professional motorsport, if a product is not 100% reliable then there's no point in fitting it. That's why we can be so confident that our new paddleshift system is one of the very best available.