Our Story
From an F1 Garage to the Memorabilia Experts
Fifteen years in
It Started with What the Teams Threw Away
Barry Gough spent his early twenties on the road with a Formula 1® team, working as a race mechanic. He noticed the thing everyone in the paddock had stopped noticing: at the end of a season, the bodywork, the wheel rims, the parts that had run at a Grand Prix - all of it was thrown away.
The idea started there, in an F1 garage in the 1990s. It took until 2010 to become a company. Memento Exclusives was built to give those pieces a second life, and to give fans a way to own something that had genuinely been there.
Today the company runs the official memorabilia programmes for Formula 1, MotoGP and the UFC, employs more than a hundred people in Northamptonshire - the heart of Motorsport Valley - and handles everything from a fifty-pound keepsake to a half-million-pound show car. The motto has not changed since the garage: own the moment.
It's hard to believe that most of our growth has happened in the last five years.
The story so far
The Idea in the Garage
A race mechanic watches a season's worth of bodywork and wheel rims go in the bin. The thought that someone would want to keep it does not go away.
The story so far
Memento Exclusives Is Founded
The idea becomes a company, built on one rule: if a fan is going to own a piece of the sport, it should be the real thing.
The story so far
Into the Octagon
UFC® Collectibles launches - the first venture outside motorsport, run end to end from the same building.
The story so far
Three Storefronts, One Hundred People
F1 Authentics, UFC Collectibles and MotoGP Authentics all run in-house, with pieces from £50 to £500,000.
The story so far
Fifteen Years, and Las Vegas
A permanent US presence for the UFC operation, and new units added to the Northamptonshire headquarters.
The story so far
MEMMX and the New Grid
MEMMX becomes the master marketplace, and the 2026 grid is rebuilt by hand at the factory.
Inside the factory
I Built My Own F1 Car Factory
The people who build it
The Expert Crew from the Paddock
The founder is a race mechanic by trade, and so are a lot of the people here. Composites technicians, painters, fabricators and engineers who spend seasons in the pit lane before they join our team.
They build to the standard they are trained to, because it is the only one they know - and it is why a show car leaving this factory looks as at home trackside as it does in a gallery.
Careers
Our facilities
One Factory. Every Discipline.
Composites, paint, assembly, simulation and QC under one roof - with visitor days for clients and partners.
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