Mercedes Benz planning new F1 engine facility

The Brixworth, UK based company Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines, which designs and builds race engines for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team, is planning a new test centre in Northamptonshire.

According to a report in the Daventry Today newspaper HPE’s parent company Daimler-Chrysler is in the final stages of approval for a state-of-the-art development at Wood Park.

If the plans are approved backed it could see HPE operations moved to Wood Park and would involve 80 high-grade technical jobs being moved from the HPE's Stuttgart, Germany headquarters. It is thought that the new site could indirectly lead to hundreds of jobs being created. A formal planning application is shortly expected to be submitted to the local Daventry District Council.