Cybex was unveiled as the official fitness supplier to the famous Williams Racing Formula One team at a glitzy launch last week.

The announcement was made at the opening of the new Williams Cybex Gym, a 330sq m (3,552sq ft) training facility onsite at the racing team’s headquarters in Grove, Oxfordshire. As part of the exclusive five-year agreement, the Williams Cybex Gym will become a new UK showcase site for the fitness equipment manufacturer.

Williams star drivers Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas will be among the 700 staff to use the new gym, which features more than 35 pieces of cardiovascular and strength training equipment from Cybex.

The gym comprises equipment from Cybex’s 700 cardio series and the new SPARC, Cybex’s self-powered resisted cardio machine. The gym also includes equipment from the Eagle NX and Prestige VRS selectorised strength lines, Bravo Functional Trainer, Big Iron lifting platform and a range of plate-loaded and free weights equipment. Also installed was a functional training rig, group exercise bikes and a range of functional training equipment.

“In working with the team at Williams we were determined to meet their requirements for the wide range of users in the gym,” said Rob Thurston, commercial director at Cybex UK.

“It’s an unusual brief to cover first time gym users, to pitstop crews to F1 drivers, so the equipment was carefully selected to not only provide a state-of-the-art training facility that is accessible to Williams’ growing team at Grove, but to also maximise the portfolio of equipment where athlete conditioning is of paramount importance."