Race and classic pictures

Neat and tidy summer shutdown

As Eric Silbermann goes behind the scenes at Renault and Williams to see what Formula One's mandatory summer shutdown, Red Bull have offered up this picture of their factory in Milton Keynes.

It might be completely deserted, but you have to admire the lovely job that they've made of tidying everything up and filing everything away before they head off on their holidays.

While you don't obviously have to be obsessive compulsive to work for a modern Formula One team, we suspect it really does help!

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.