grano123 wrote:There an article on the engineering trailers used by Honda/Brawn/Mercedes, where they join two together to make a big open plan upstairs layout, very cool.
I was wondering if these are also used to transport the cars, or purely for the engineering use? If they were and other teams have them also, the paddock area must get awfully crowded....
Who makes them and how many mortgages do they need to take out to pay for them? ha, ha.
Sorry to resurrect an old post, but I've ended up on this website looking for info on trailers, but I can answer some of your questions.
These trailer don't normally carry the cars, they are to full of technical stuff. There is also another advantage in doing this as the Engineers trailers have to get to the circuit quite early in the week to be parked up and set-up. I think it was on Tuesday for F1, I was working on a support series.
The car trailer can leave later, leaving more time to tinker with the car.
Basically in motorsport it doesn't matter if the mechy's get 5 hours or 5 weeks they'll still want to finish something off when you want to put the car in the truck.
This trailer might not actually end up being packed in the paddock, but in a compound somewhere else on the circuit with all the other trucks that carry the gear need to set-up the Garage.
Considering a decent trailer with double side pop-out for the office would be around the £250,000+ mark, I should think those trailers come in at £500,000+ each, depending on the spec.
There are a few companies that make these trailers.
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JS Frasers in Oxford (I think they gone out business though) They made Bernies motorhome amongst other things. Schuler and Bischoff Scheck in Germany, ASGB in Colchester built the Ferrari Hospitality unit.
Other are Brooklandspeed, WHF, and Hopkins although I don't know if they've done any for the F1 teams.
