WAU set for $100m facility move after Toyota debut

Walkinshaw Andretti United is set to be housed in a new multi-purpose $100 million facility from April next year, following its landmark Toyota debut.

The team will shift to a 100,000 square metre Walkinshaw Group facility across Melbourne in April 2026. WAU moved into its current headquarters in Clayton South in late 2023.

The new facility is based in Dandenong South, and will also house the Walkinshaw Group’s automotive production facilities, engineering and design studio and corporate offices from August.

As part of the wider Walkinshaw family, the WAU Supercars team will also be housed in the start-of-the-art facility.

WAU is hard at work developing its new era as Toyota’s homologation team in Supercars. Crucially, the April move allows the team to complete and debut its Toyota project at the beginning of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship.

“It’s a purpose-built facility purely for Walkinshaw Group,” Ryan Walkinshaw told the Rusty’s Garage podcast.

“It will house between six and eight production lines for different manufacturers. It will house our world-leading engineering and design studios. About 100 to 120 engineers working from there, about 1000 to 1400 staff in total at maximum capacity.

“Everyone’s going to start moving in from the end of August. The keys get handed over end of August, which is really exciting.

"The first production line will move over at the beginning of September, and then we’ll start staggering those in towards the end of the year.

“And then in April is the planned date for the race team to move, and then it will be all full.”

Walkinshaw revealed in Townsville that the first Supra is set to begin testing by the end of August, with WAU to field two cars for incumbents Chaz Mostert and Ryan Wood.

Toyota will field a total of six cars in the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship, with Brad Jones Racing being announced to run their traditional four-car model with the Japanese make back in May.