Red Bull is no stranger to the Formula One paddock, its colours having graced many a Grand Prix driver's drinks bottle over the years and its logo previously featuring on the Sauber team cars. In 2005, that involvement moved up a notch with the creation of the Red Bull Racing team.

Given how late in the day the team was put together, it actually did a decent job on the race track in its first season, racking up points with stunning alacrity and generally showing a lot of promise - getting close, very close at times, to a podium finish.

The team's first podium arrived in Monaco in 2006, but apart from that, its second year was disappointing... Actually, it was worse than disappointing - it was pretty terrible! And, as is the way in Formula One, from being the exciting new boys with flash toys like the Energy Station, it suddenly found itself in the real world, fighting it out for points in the mid-field. So fight it did and by the end of 2007, having overcome some early-season poor reliability, Red Bull Racing finished fifth in the Constructors' Championship - its best result in three short years on the grid, with Mark Webber claiming his first podium in the team's colours at the German Grand Prix. Technical development on RB3 was relentless, right through to the end of the season, and a definite step up in performance terms could be seen in the last three rounds of the Championship.

The Milton Keynes factory is at the heart of Red Bull Racing's plans to move up the order, as the race team is just the tip of the iceberg. Back at base there have been plenty of developments: when Headmaster Horner takes roll call in the morning, there are a lot more names to get through and there's also an impressive third building, imaginatively named 'Building 3', which houses the manufacturing department, the machine shop, the strategy group and a new CFD cluster.