Audi is giving its Formula 1 operation a new home from the ground up. The German manufacturer has set out plans for a purpose-built F1 campus less than a kilometer from its current factory in Hinwil, Switzerland, where the team already designs and runs its car.
Parts of the new site have been operational since the summer. The full development is scheduled for completion in 2030, with the current factory continuing to run throughout construction before being converted into a manufacturing hub and wind tunnel operation.
Audi CEO and team principal Mattia Binotto said the chance to design an F1 facility from a blank sheet is unusual in the modern sport.
“Opportunities like this are rare in modern Formula 1,” Binotto said.
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He described the new site as a tool for recruitment as much as performance, saying it would be built around the team’s people, culture and ambitions rather than inherited from a previous constructor.
Hinwil had already run out of room
The campus answers a problem Audi has flagged openly since the start of the year. Speaking earlier in 2026, Binotto said the Hinwil site was no longer big enough for what the team needed, including a newly ordered simulator that required its own dedicated building.
“In Hinwil, on the opposite, I think still we are lacking space for what we need,” Binotto said at the time.
The Neuburg power unit plant in Germany was already judged to be at modern F1 standards. Hinwil, which has been active in motorsport since 1970 and in Formula 1 since 1993 under previous constructors Sauber and BMW, had fallen behind as team sizes grew over the past two decades.
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A works team spread across three sites
Audi joined F1 as a full works constructor for the 2026 season, taking over the Hinwil-based Sauber operation and racing as the Audi Revolut F1 Team with drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto. Chassis work is based in Hinwil, powertrains come from Neuburg an der Donau in Germany, and the team runs a technical center in Bicester, England.
Binotto was handed overall responsibility for the project in May 2025, with authority across all three sites, before being named CEO and team principal following the departure of Jonathan Wheatley earlier this year and the appointment of Allan McNish as racing director.
2030 is a deadline on more than one front
The campus completion date lines up with Audi’s declared competitive target. The team has publicly set 2030 as the year it wants to contend for the world championship, with the next major power unit development step pencilled in for 2028.
“I believe that by 2030 we can do it,” Binotto said earlier this year.
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