Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains has been working in partnership with Racing Pride throughout 2024 as part of its diversity, equity, and inclusion programme.

The team at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, known as HPP, is responsible for the design, manufacture, testing and racing of Formula 1 power units enjoying enormous success with works team Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and customer teams Aston Martin, Williams, and McLaren. Additionally, the Advanced Technology Team transfers F1 technologies and know-how into high performance automotive projects and products such as the revolutionary Mercedes-AMG ONE and the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX. HPP is based in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, and its trackside personnel are present with its works and customer teams racing across the world.

In the words of Hywel Thomas, Managing Director, “For Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion is a business priority, and we are committed to creating a truly diverse and inclusive environment where all can thrive. We understand that having diverse representation is a prerequisite for harvesting diverse experiences and perspective. If we want to win, we need the most talented people, working well together, each bringing their own varied knowledge, expertise, and suggestions. It is essential that we provide a workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and I will continue to push for an environment where there is equality of opportunity for all.”

HPP has a number of Employee Networks – voluntary groups of employees that come together based on shared identity or life experience – one of which is its Pride Community. Racing Pride helped to launch and is supporting this Pride Community. Racing Pride is working alongside it and HPP’s Recruitment, Diversity & Inclusion Manager, Stacey Fletcher, to enhance LGBTQ+ employee experiences and to promote and provide education around allyship across the business. Each year, HPP recruits a large number of apprentices, student placements, and graduates and so one particular focus is to make sure that young people coming into the business are greeted with a safe and supportive environment in which to flourish and thrive as their authentic selves.

Racing Pride also has established partnerships with Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd, the company which runs the works team of Mercedes-AMG that competes in the FIA Formula One™ World Championship from its base at Brackley, as well as multiple of HPP’s customer teams.

Racing Pride CEO Richard Morris said: “It’s wonderful to be working with Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains to nurture its Pride Community and spread awareness about allyship. HPP is a hugely significant company within the industry, supplying the Mercedes-AMG works team and customer teams in Formula One and working on a range of projects through its Advanced Technology Team. It has a substantial workforce and is a place where many aspiring young people – apprentices, students, and graduates – begin their journey in the industry every year. We are proud to be associated with Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains and to be working alongside the team there to advance LGBTQ+ inclusion for HPP’s staff as well as to help introduce diverse talent into the industry.”