📍 ‘Paris became a boardroom of chrome and capital, where history wore a price tag, and provenance mattered more than horsepower.’ Fifty years on, this was less about yesterday and more about why yesterday still pays. 👉 Full story below. ◼︎ The setting: January in Paris. Grey skies, good tailoring, and Paris Expo Porte de Versailles humming […]
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But it’s still powered by something far simpler. 📍 ‘Money.’ And according to Sportico, Lewis Hamilton remains extremely good at collecting it. The full story Lewis Hamilton has been named among Sportico’s top 100 highest-paid athletes of 2025, sitting a rather elegant 11th overall — and still the highest-earning driver in Formula 1. This, despite what can
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Not the fastest. Not the most expensive. 📍 ‘The one that everyone prays never appears.’ Mercedes is now in sole charge of keeping F1 safe — and Aston Martin has quietly exited stage left. ❖ The full story Formula 1 will return to a familiar arrangement this season: Mercedes as the sole supplier of the Safety and
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📍 ‘It built a farewell letter.’ Carbon fibre, W16 thunder, and a name that reads like a whispered apology: F.K.P. Hommage. Not a model. A monument. The full story Some cars arrive with noise. Others arrive with meaning. The Bugatti F.K.P. Hommage is firmly the latter. ❖ A deeply personal tribute to Ferdinand Karl Piëch, the man who dragged Bugatti
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1) Power Units Become the Primary Competitive Asset ‘The 2026 regulations shift performance emphasis decisively toward energy management and electrical output.’ Teams aligned with strong engine partners (Mercedes, Audi, Honda/Aston Martin) gain disproportionate leverage. Chassis excellence alone will no longer compensate for powertrain weakness. ❖ Implication: Long-term competitiveness now depends more on supplier relationships and internal power unit capability
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📍 ‘Rolls-Royce once feared speed.’ Actively distrusted it, in fact. While rivals chased horsepower and glamour, Rolls-Royce worried that performance was a moral failing — a dangerous infection threatening its very soul. History, as ever, had other ideas. ❖ The full story In the years after the First World War, Rolls-Royce found itself facing a problem it
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📍 ‘They battle the air.’ And a century before wind tunnels became corporate temples, a Romanian engineer built a teardrop car so slippery it still embarrasses plenty of today’s ‘aero’ SUVs. Meet the Persu Streamliner Proof that aerodynamics didn’t begin with carbon fibre and a marketing department. ❖ The full story In 1922–23, Aurel Persu built an
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📍 ‘They listen to them.’ Talk to them. Occasionally, they rely on them more than they probably should. Because to many collectors, cars aren’t objects. They’re companions. ❖ The full story Speak to enough serious collectors and a curious pattern emerges. They rarely describe their cars in mechanical terms. Instead, they talk about personalities. One was temperamental. Another loyal. One always started
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🏁 Gossip & Paddock Headlines ◼︎ Red Bull unveils RB22 2026 car; Verstappen calls new rules ‘step into the unknown.’ ◼︎ Red Bull & Racing Bulls launch 2026 liveries with Ford power unit partnership debut. ◼︎ Ferrari shakes up Lewis Hamilton’s engineering crew with race engineer reassignment. ◼︎ Alpine and Jack Doohan part ways; Doohan exits the team ahead
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