Aerodynamics specialist firm TotalSim is building a 26,000 square foot state-of-the-art sports engineering facility in Silverstone Park, right on the edge of the site of Formula 1’s British Grand Prix. The project is being completed with the help of a £2 million ($2.6 million) local grant.
The space will include two wind tunnels. One will be used for sports such as cycling, speed-skating, running, and wheelchair athletics, and the other will be for testing fabrics. Offices and design studios for production, prototyping, and testing will also be included according to a release on TotalSim’s website.
“If we can pool the right things together then we believe that organisations will come from around the world to take advantage of the facility—thereby helping to put the UK at the forefront of the development of aerodynamic technologies,” said TotalSim MD Rob Lewis according to an article in the Buckingham & Winslow Advertiser.