18 February 2022 Formula 1 will hold three sprint races this year following a compromise was found over money concerns. Success last year in increasing action and excitement with a grid-setting short Saturday race, F1 had intended to double the number of sprints to six in 2022. Some top teams wanted the cost cap to […]
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11 February 2022 Mercedes-Benz didn’t have an apparent and intelligent marketing strategy when they launched the 190 in December 1982. By the 1970s, Mercedes-Benz decided it needed a new entry-level model to take on the BMW 3 Series and Audi 80. But rather than rush its launch and produce a cut-price car, Mercedes is said
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11 February 2022 Gordon Murray Design. A lot has been written about Gordon Murray recently, especially regarding the T50 and the latest iteration, the T33. But the man is as interesting as his cars; he was born 18 June 1946 to Scottish immigrant parents and grew up in Durban, South Africa. His father was a
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11 February 2022 So what does the W mean? In different mythologies, founder Ralph R. Debbas, christian name Ralph’s means Wise Wolf; Mr Debbas is the ‘White Wolf’. W Motors is an Emirati sports car company founded in Lebanon in 2012, Lebanese and Italian engineers being the first developer of high-performance luxury sports cars in
11 February 2022 In February 1957, the Citroën DS in various shapes and colours was displayed at a contemporary art fair in Paris. The theme is ‘la DS est un oeuvre d’art’. The DS is a work of art. In 1957 an essay by French author Roland Barthes described the cars as ‘almost the exact
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11 February 2022 ‘Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway, and I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.’ – Juan Manuel Fangio. Juan Manuel Fangio is regarded by many as the most fantastic Grand Prix driver of all time.
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Codename C10 has been ‘leaked’ online; this could be the successor to the Pagani Huayra. The C10 was to debut at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show to celebrate the marque’s 20th anniversary. For various reasons, the first deliveries are, hopefully, for 2023. Surprisingly, the Pagani Huayra has been around for over ten years, meaning a
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Displacement must be at the heart of Porsche’s rationale, their motorsport divisions prototype for the LMDh (Le Mans Daytona) will be used in the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship from 2022 alongside Le Mans Hypercars. The prototype will race in the new Grand Touring Prototype class of the IMSA SportsCar Championship from
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Whilst we are all anticipating the arrival of the mid-engined Mercedes-AMG Project ONE, what is less well known was that Mercedes-Benz was already working on a similar concept in the early 1960s. The intention was to fit the engine behind the passengers, ensuring the centre of gravity was as low as possible. Designers Paul Bracq
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The boom for high-end, ultra-exclusive and ludicrously expensive supercars has never been more robust. It seems the world’s wealthy are more affluent than ever before, and if you can produce a motor car with a hefty price tag and low production numbers, they will sell. It’s this boom that has drawn one of the most
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