Leafield Technical Centre is a former radio transmission station, now turned motorsports centre of excellence, located in the village of Leafield in Oxfordshire, England.
Developed from 1912 as a radio transmission station by the General Post Office, it was decommissioned by successor company British Telecom in 1986.[1] BT Group redeveloped the site as a training college, but then closed the site in 1993.[1]
Sold to a commercial property company, the site was then leased by Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) as a motorsport development centre for the Arrows Formula One team,[1] until the team's demise in the 2002 season. From the 2006 season until the 2008 season Leafield Technical Centre was the headquarters of the now-defunct Super Aguri F1 team.
Menard Competition Technologies is now based at Leafield Technical Centre.[2] MCT has made the engines for Norton Motorcycles' range of Commando 961 models[3] since 2009.[4]