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Motorsport's hidden champion

Austrian engineering giant AVL RACING has all the skills and clout to take on Formula 1 teams at their own game, so why does it prefer to remain in the shadows as a supplier?

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An argument lifted from a Rev W Awdry book this author read as a boy came to mind during a recent tour of the Austrian engineering powerhouse AVL. It goes like this:

"I remember going to London. Do you know it? The station is called King's Cross."

"King's Cross? London's Euston, everyone knows that!"

"Rubbish, London's Paddington. I know, I worked there!"

Visitors to AVL's 3km campus in the heart of Graz will have some sympathy with that confusion. The company bills itself as the world's largest independent supplier of powertrain development, simulation and testing services, but that only scratches the surface.

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