The Caterham F1 Team has revealed they are set to move bases, from Hingham in Norfolk to Leafield in Oxfordshire.
The team, who joined Formula 1 in 2010, will start the move after the Hungarian Grand Prix. Leafield Technical Centre has been the home of Arrows and Super-Aguri, and will now be transformed into Caterham's base.
All the Caterham arms will be based at Leafield, including the GP2, Caterham Cars and Caterham Composite teams. The move will bring the team closer to the Formula 1 hub in the centre of England, close to Mercedes and Force India's bases.
The team have confirmed work has already begun on renovating the centre.
Caterham's technical director Mark Smith told Autosport: "We don't expect a great deal of disruption, If you think about the race team, it can go anywhere in the world and be fairly self sufficient, so that side of the business moving to Leafield I don't see as a big issue.
"The side of the business that (includes) our IT infrastructure in terms of design, CAD systems and dynamics, we should be able to do that physical move and get the infrastructure up and running. We use the second wind tunnel at Williams so we are closer to that, so that helps. It is really the manufacturing aspect of it, and what we plan to do is leave a reasonably strong core of that at Hingham.
"The primary structural composite side of the business, the bit that we regard as important to have on site, will be at Leafield, but there will be a manufacturing base at Hingham as well. We are thinking it will be fairly painless."
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All the Caterham arms will be based at Leafield, including the GP2, Caterham Cars and Caterham Composite teams. The move will bring the team closer to the Formula 1 hub in the centre of England, close to Mercedes and Force India's bases.
The team have confirmed work has already begun on renovating the centre.
Caterham's technical director Mark Smith told Autosport: "We don't expect a great deal of disruption, If you think about the race team, it can go anywhere in the world and be fairly self sufficient, so that side of the business moving to Leafield I don't see as a big issue.
"The side of the business that (includes) our IT infrastructure in terms of design, CAD systems and dynamics, we should be able to do that physical move and get the infrastructure up and running. We use the second wind tunnel at Williams so we are closer to that, so that helps. It is really the manufacturing aspect of it, and what we plan to do is leave a reasonably strong core of that at Hingham.
"The primary structural composite side of the business, the bit that we regard as important to have on site, will be at Leafield, but there will be a manufacturing base at Hingham as well. We are thinking it will be fairly painless."
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