Fluendo Karting Team Building — Fluendo

Fluendo

Fluendo Karting Team Building

Team Building · Castellolí · 2019

Karting team building for the Fluendo team, a Catalan multimedia technology company. Track day at Castellolí circuit, fully organised by Bacus.

  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production
  • Fluendo Karting Team Building event in Barcelona — Bacus Events production

The challenge

The standard format did not work for a team that lives by the metric.

The usual corporate team building catalogue fell short. Escape rooms, treasure hunts, group cooking: closed activities whose script the Fluendo team deciphers in fifteen minutes. Engineers accustomed to debugging video pipelines do not engage with a cardboard puzzle. Management had tried this in previous years and the conclusion was always the same: the team participated out of obligation, not interest.

The second challenge was one of mixing. A day had to be designed where a senior engineer from Brno and a Barcelona-based sales rep competed on equal terms, with language, hierarchy, or seniority having no bearing on the outcome — where the winner would be a surprise to everyone, including themselves.

The third challenge was time. Fluendo could not spare two days away. The day had to fit within a long afternoon, travel included, and return the team home before the last commuter train. Everything beyond that clock came at the cost of Monday's productivity.

Bacus's response

A real championship, not a fairground attraction.

Bacus proposed taking Fluendo to a professional karting circuit in the Barcelona area and building the day as a proper race. Not a tourist lap with five minutes on track. A championship with its own regulations, driving briefing, qualifying session, elimination heats, and a final.

The format chosen was mixed balanced teams formed before the event. Management handed over the attendee list and Bacus assigned teams by crossing departments, offices, and prior driving experience. Each team started with two commercial and two technical profiles, or equivalent combinations. There were no natural sides. The teams had to get to know each other in the pit box before deciding the starting order.

Production was built around the idea of a professional race, not a day out. Safety briefing by circuit staff. Race suit, helmet, and gloves for everyone. Electronic timing with a transponder per kart. Live timing screens in the paddock. Chequered flag and podium at the end, with trophies, cava, and an official photograph.

The Bacus team handled all prior coordination: exclusive circuit hire, timing management, technical briefing with track officials, transport logistics from the Fluendo offices in Barcelona, and a light meal beforehand so nobody went out to compete on a full stomach. Fluendo management only had to communicate the date to their team.

The experience

Forty minutes on track erases forty office hierarchies.

The attendee arrived by bus from the office. Received a race suit, helmet, and gloves, listened to the safety briefing, and walked the circuit to learn the track on foot. The first qualifying heat ran without pressure, in random order. That is where everyone discovered that the helmet neutralises rank. In the paddock, nobody knows whether kart number seven is the CTO or an intern — only that they lapped in 52.4.

The second and third heats were already competition. The stopwatch puts people into a different conversation: lap lines are discussed, tyre pressure shared, the chicane debated. Colleagues who in the office only cross paths in the incident chat agree on how to cut two tenths at the hairpin.

Between heats there was water, fruit, and shade. No open bar, no DJ. The energy came from the format itself. At the end of the final came the podium, photographs, and a light snack before the return journey. Nobody left with the feeling of having attended an event. They left with the feeling of having raced.

The result

The following Monday the team was still talking about the race.

The measure of impact in this format is not the satisfaction survey the day after. It is what is still circulating in the internal channel a week later. At Fluendo, the timing table kept coming up in conversation. Teams asked to repeat the format. Management got what it was looking for: a day the team remembered for the activity, not for the logistics.

Bacus closed the case with a photo dossier, the final classification certified by the circuit, and material for Fluendo's internal use. The relationship remained open for future corporate formats of the same level of rigour.

Client
Fluendo
Attendees
20
Venue
Castellolí

Frequently asked questions · Fluendo Karting Team Building

What readers ask after this case.

  • The budget varies by number of drivers, format, and circuit. A professional team building karting event for between 30 and 60 people at a Barcelona circuit, with exclusive hire, electronic timing, technical briefing, equipment, and podium, sits in the usual bracket for premium corporate motor-sport events. Bacus works on a fixed budget agreed after an initial discovery call where guest count, duration, competition format, and complementary services such as transport from the office or catering are confirmed. The price difference between recreational karting and karting with a championship format is significant and is justified by the production behind the track.

  • The difference lies in the prior design and the timing. A loose karting day without a format lasts fifteen minutes in the attendee's memory. A day built as a championship — with mixed cross-departmental teams, qualifying, elimination heats, and lap-by-lap comparable data — generates real conversation between profiles who do not cross paths in the office. The decisive factor is the mix. Teams are not self-selected by affinity; they are balanced in advance to force cross-area familiarity. The stopwatch does the rest: it puts everyone on the same scale and makes rank irrelevant for the afternoon.

  • Particularly suitable. Technical teams respond well to formats where the metric is transparent and the result is verifiable. Karting with electronic timing offers exactly that: an auditable lap table, comparable laps, sector differentials. The conversation moves from the scoreboard to the mechanism, which is the natural territory of an engineer. An escape room is cracked in fifteen minutes by a software engineering team. A race with data on screen holds attention for the full afternoon and generates internal anecdotes that survive for weeks in the company channel.

  • With an agency that has an existing relationship with circuits in the Barcelona area, the comfortable lead time is four to six weeks from the first meeting to the event day. That window covers exclusive circuit confirmation, competition format finalisation, team balancing from the confirmed attendee list, transport coordination, and podium materials production. Shorter timelines are possible for smaller groups or if the client accepts an alternative circuit, but under three weeks the exclusivity of the track is compromised — and exclusivity is what distinguishes a professional corporate day from a weekend visit to the karting centre.

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