South East: Prodrive, Base Performance Simulators and Hewland Engineering win national motorsport awards

Berkshire-based Hewland Engineering and two Oxfordshire-based companies, Base Performance Simulators and Prodrive, were winners at the annual Motorsport Industry Association’s (MIA) Business Excellence Awards.

Base Performance Simulators took the title of 'MIA Business of the Year with annual sales under £ 5million’ award. Prodrive was announced as the winner of the 'MIA New Markets' award, and Hewland Engineering took the trophy for 'MIA Export Achievement'.

The event, which took place in Birmingham on January 14 as part of the prominent Autosport International Show, saw more than 500 guests from across the globe come together to recognise the achievements of the motorsport industry over the past 12 months. 

MIA CEO Chris Aylett said: “It is a real privilege to be part of an industry which represents so many world-class organisations and individuals. This year’s winners and finalists have yet again impressed the judges with their innovation and performance.

First presented in 1995, the MIA Business Excellence Awards recognise excellence at all levels within the motorsport and high performance engineering industry. 

The 2015 winners, in the seven categories, were:

1.    MIA Service to the Industry Award – Sponsored by Goodridge

Winner – Jonathan Lee Recruitment

2.    MIA New Markets Award – Sponsored by Dell | Intel

Winner – Prodrive

3.    MIA Export Achievement Award – Sponsored by Performance Racing Industry (PRI)

Winner – Hewland Engineering

4.    MIA Technology & Innovation Award – Sponsored by Ricardo

Winner – bf1systems

5.    MIA Teamwork Award – Sponsored by Grainger & Worrall

Winner – Bentley Motorsport 

6.    MIA Business of the Year with annual sales under £5 million Award – Sponsored by Lestercast

Winner – Base Performance Simulators

7.    MIA Business of the Year with annual sales over £5 million Award – Sponsored by Xtrac

Winner – Ginetta Cars