Every Formula One car wears something built by a British bloke in a shed. A statement which, when you consider the torrents of cash that flow through F1, seems a tad fantastical. But there’s a very real, very skilled army of motorsport experts hidden in our drizzly industrial estates, without which the sport simply wouldn’t exist in the same form.

And seeing as the 2012 Formula One season wraps up this weekend, we thought we’d round them up and celebrate their unsung contribution to the world’s most glamorous race series.

Click on and join us for a cup of instant coffee and a Digestive as we visit every single one of them…