Exclusive footage from the demolition of the car maker’s former UK home.
Science has yet to master the challenge of perpetual motion. But in Robert Collard, the human race has something pretty damn close. Not content with running a highly successful and fast-growing demolition company, Collard is a recognised pioneer in the “circular economy” of recycling and resource efficiency. He is fitter than many men half his age, training daily and regularly clocking up 10 kilometre runs in readiness for his “other job” as a highly successful racing driver where he is still claiming wins and podium positions in the British Touring Car Championship in his race spec BMW 125i M Sport.
We caught up with him at the former BMW UK headquarters in Bracknell, Berkshire where – fittingly – his company is demolishing a huge warehouse space and the five-storey administration and management building. “BMW’s Motorsport Division was located here and I have been here countless times for team and sponsor meetings,” Collard says. “Having driven for BMW for the past five years and demolished my race car once or twice it feels quite fitting to be on this job,” Collard says.
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