The all-electric Formula E motor racing championship continues to blossom, having been conceived in 2011 and the first race held in Beijing on 13 September 2014.

One of the founding teams — DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team, which to date has achieved six wins and 15 podiums — recently relocated to larger premises at Silverstone.

As part of that relocation, the team has installed two brand new race bays with the help of Ashford-based System Store Solutions Ltd (www.system-store.com).

This relocation gave the team the opportunity to start with a ‘clean slate’ as far as design of
the race bays was concerned, and team manager Leon Price sought a solution that was right in terms of functionality and practicality.

“We wanted to maximise the three P’s — Practical, Premium and Professional. As a leading race team we look for excellence everywhere.

“With this being a new ‘state of the art’ facility, it was important for us to have the right product — one that would allow our guys to do the best job they can.

“Having worked with System Store Solutions at another race team I made contact with them again.”

DS Virgin Racing gave the company the task of reviewing the team’s requirements and developing the race bay layouts to incorporate features that met these three P principles, based on previous experience with race teams from across
various formulas.

One example of this was to incorporate sliding doors on some cabinets in the middle of the bays, thereby ensuring that there was no encroachment into the bay when the doors were opened, maintaining free space and making storage of larger items much easier.

From an aesthetic point of view the cabinets were equipped with power centres with all the sockets aligned vertically, waste bins were ‘hidden’ and featured stainless-steel covers and the cabinets were all colour coordinated.

The finished design allows for two race cars to be worked on in each race bay, with a single row of cabinets dividing the two bays.

David Price, System Store Solution’s managing director, said: “Thanks to our extensive experience working with race teams, Mr Price at DS Virgin Racing allowed us to develop a solution for the team, giving us virtually a free-rein to develop ideas that we knew would work for them.

“Our experience means we can bring elements to a design that a customer may not have even considered.”

After the race bays had been completed, System Store Solutions built two ancillary work areas where sub-assembly of the race cars takes place. These areas feature substantial workbenches and storage with roller shutter doors.