‘This is what you don’t see in F1’: the university where future race engineers are made

Thomas Cawdery, a team manager and third year motorsports technology student. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

At the Oxford Brookes Headington campus, more than 100 students are busy building the fastest, best designed race car possible for this year’s Formula Student competition.

Oxford Brookes Racing (OBR) is the UK’s most prestigious Formula Student team. They’ve won more design awards than any UK university, and frequently occupy the international race’s top spots.