Sauber has opened its new know-how middle in the UK that it’ll use to draw extra engineering expertise because it transitions into the Audi works group.
Audi will enter as a full constructor in 2026, with Sauber Motorsport working the operation from Hinwil in Switzerland and an influence unit division in Germany. With the brand new know-how middle based mostly at Bicester – simply 15 miles from Silverstone – the group will now have a facility that expertise can work from if they don’t need to relocate from the UK.
“The opening of the Sauber Motorsport Know-how Centre at Bicester Movement is a major milestone as we put together for Audi’s arrival in Formulation 1,” head of Audi F1 venture Mattia Binotto stated.
“This facility will enable us to faucet into the expertise pool in Motorsport Valley and additional strengthen our technical capabilities whereas being a part of a thriving cluster at Bicester Movement the place you reside and breathe motorsport. The assist it’s going to play to Hinwil will probably be essential to our long-term success.”
The transfer from Sauber is just like the strategy taken by Cadillac with its new Formulation 1 group, the place there will probably be facilities at Silverstone alongside a predominant headquarters in the US and separate energy unit operation.
Sauber says the brand new middle represents a major funding but additionally brings the group nearer to the present motorsport provide chain within the area.
“We warmly welcome Sauber Motorsport in what’s an thrilling step in its Audi F1 transformation forward of subsequent 12 months’s F1 season,” Bicester Movement CEO Daniel Geoghegan stated. “It’s thrilling that Bicester Movement has been chosen as their UK base connecting into their Swiss and German operations to assist their imaginative and prescient to ship sustainability, innovation, and most efficiency in motorsport.
“They be part of many different pioneering automotive and aviation firms, together with Motorsport UK, the governing physique of this nice trade, already based mostly right here. We stay up for seeing their group develop and their transformation on and off the monitor proceed.”
