Audi’s Competence Middle Motorsport is being expanded forward of its entry to F1 in 2026.
Subsequent week sees development start on a brand new 3,000 sq metre constructing which can home the take a look at benches for the event of the ability unit.
The Competence Middle Motorsport in Neuburg an der Donau, which opened in the summertime of 2014, is taken into account as some of the fashionable of its sort.
All of Audi’s manufacturing unit racing operations, in addition to buyer racing, are coordinated from there. The futuristic Audi RS Q e-tron, with its progressive drivetrain for the Dakar Rally, was constructed there, as was the Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid, the Audi RS 5 DTM and the all-electric Components E automotive. And now your entire energy unit for the F1 venture is being developed and in-built Neuburg.
“With the Competence Middle Motorsport, we’ve got a perfect base for our Components 1 venture,” mentioned Oliver Hoffmann, Board Member for Technical Improvement. “Audi Neuburg was designed from the outset to have the ability to deal with essentially the most demanding motorsport initiatives. This foresight is paying off. With the present amenities, we have been capable of instantly start with the Components 1 venture. The enlargement will create the mandatory infrastructure for the event of our F1 energy unit for the long run. With the constructing extension and the set up of state-of-the-art take a look at benches, we’re giving our improvement staff the very best situations to achieve success within the high class of motorsport.”
The brand new constructing, known as F7.2, will probably be constructed on the south-western finish of the present constructing advanced on a beforehand unused space and will probably be linked to the F7 constructing via a closed bridge. Along with take a look at benches for the ability unit and engines, there will probably be technical rooms, a mechanical workshop and workplaces for about 60 staff on a complete space of three,000 sq. meters. Completion of the extension is deliberate for the primary quarter of 2024. A part of the brand new constructing is to be put into operation as early as March of subsequent yr.
The electrical energy and warmth provide in Neuburg is already CO2-neutral: the power is equipped with district heating from industrial waste warmth and inexperienced electrical energy from hydroelectric energy vegetation. The FIA has awarded the power its highest accolade for environmental conservation and sustainability with the three-star environmental seal of approval. Audi’s objective is to generate the vitality for the Components 1 venture on the Neuburg facility utterly independently and regeneratively within the medium time period.
It isn’t solely the infrastructure that’s being expanded. The staff can be rising steadily. At the moment, round 220 staff have been recruited for the Components 1 venture on the Neuburg facility. The objective is to have greater than 300 staff by mid-2023.
“Growing an influence unit for the world’s most demanding racing collection in Germany is a superb problem,” mentioned Adam Baker, Managing Director of Audi Components Racing GmbH, which was based for the venture. “We have already got an awesome staff at our facility in Neuburg that’s rising the entire time.”
