McLaren will build a new wind tunnel at its factory in Woking over the next two years after receiving appro🎃val from its shareholders.

McLaren has used Toyota's wind tunnel in Cologne to develop its Formula 1 cars for the last decade despite having a fu🔥nctioning wind tunnel at the McLaren Technology Centre, but wi💯ll now construct a new in-house facility. The news was confirmed by F1 team principal Andreas Seidl on Saturday at Paul Ricard.

"One of the biggest tasks I get at the moment from Zak [Brown, McLaren Racing CEO] and the shareholders, Sheikh Mohammed and Mansour, is to clearly point out where I see the deficits or weaknesses in infꦏrastructure, structure and so on, at Woki𒐪ng and here at the track," Seidl said.

"One of the big deficits we have at the moment is clearly not running our own wind tunnel in Woking. For nearly 10 💫years, we’ve been developing our car remotely at Toyota 𝓰in Cologne.

"So I’m very happy that recently this decisio🐎n has been made that we install a new wind tunnel and get a new wind tunnel in Woking, which is obviously a great message for everyone inside the team because it also shows how serious Zak and the shareholders are regꦡarding our way back to the front.

"It's great news for everyoꦬne inside the team, a big boost for the morale, and simply fits the💎 overall positive direction that everyone is taking at the moment inside the team."

Seidl confirmed the wind tunnel would take "roughly two years" to complete, during which ♔period McLaren would continue to work with Toyota at Cologne, and said that it would also crossover into the company's automotive interests and any potential parallel racing programmes in the future, as well as being available to customers to𒁏 use.

"I think it’s important to mention that the investment we’re doing in the wind tunnel was no𝐆t just for our Formula 1 programme," Seidl said.

"I think we can share the resources of the wind t🧜unnel wit🍒h automotive. We can share with potential other future motorsport projects at McLaren. Zak is working on that. At the same time, I think it’s also possible to rent it out to customers.

"That is t♎he idea and why we took the decision to make this investment.