capricorn AUTOMOTIVE SAS designs and manufactures high-quality crankshafts for motor sport, OEM niche production and prototypes. We proudly look back over 90 years of experience and success which have enabled us to become the industry’s reference and the first choice of designers and engine builders worldwide. Motor sport - capricorn AUTOMOTIVE SAS, specialists in racing crankshafts for over 50 years, have been involved with teams which have won the most prestigious motor-racing titles. Still today, we can boast of being the only crankshaft manufacturer in the world to be involved in so many competition types: Formula 1, Nascar, WRC, NHRA, DTM, WTCC, Le Mans, ALMS, …, Superbike and historic racing. OEM - capricorn AUTOMOTIVE SAS supports entire development programmes for OEM clients or engineering companies, from early crankshaft prototypes from billet to start of production with forged or cast parts. Our clients praise our “Make Like Production” approach, whereby the technology used for prototyping is similar to the one used in full production. OEM niche series production - up to 15,000 crankshafts a year on a flexible production line with state-of-the-art machinery and highly experienced staff. capricorn’s production caters for the latest design trends and the ever-stricter requirements of the automotive industry.