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Mercedes plan Silicon Valley-style F1 factory upgrades

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Mercedes plans to expand its Formula 1 factory into a campus as part of £70 million upgrades , which should help turn it into a Silicon Valley- style parkland. Their current factory in Brackley, Northamptonshire, will see new infrastructure including marketing buildings, leisure facilities, and restaurants built to improve the working environment within the team. Team principal Toto Wolff claims one of main reasons for the expansion is due to the number of people who are now working for the team, compared to when it opened up. “The Brackley campus was built to accommodate 350 people, and today we are at 1250," he told Autosport . "What we are planning to do is to expand the campus with multiple new buildings and create a modern style campus, with lots of breakout areas, restaurants, state of the art gyms, new marketing buildings, and getting all the cars out. “We want it to become its own little village, with all the amenities and benefits that you would ex...

Aston Martin share latest images of new £200m factory

New overhead images of the £200 million Aston Martin factory have been released, showing the progress of each building. Building 3 (left) is their new wind tunnel facility that is starting to take shape, while Building 1 (right) is on course to be completed by 2023. Another building will be knocked down and replaced with a new area featuring staff restaurants, gym and fitness studio. Currently there are around 190 operatives on site every day, with 17 weeks to go until they aim to launch in May 2023. Watch a video tour of the site here. You must accept cookies to view this content You have not currently accepted all necessary cookies. You can change your cookie preferences here . Do you keep seeing this message? Disable any installed browser extensions or try another web browser. ...