📊If anyone was waiting for the collector-car market to collapse, Monterey has been rather unhelpful. The 2026 auctions produced extraordinary headline numbers, including a record result for a British car. But underneath the fireworks, the more interesting message remains unchanged: The market isn’t buying everything. It is buying the right things.  Full Story ▪️Market temperature: Selectively very strong. ▪️Monterey

🚩 Some racing cars look fast. The Bugatti Type 35 looked as though it had been drawn by somebody who considered ugliness a personal failing. Yet beneath that extraordinary elegance sat one of the most formidable competition cars ever created. A century later, the Type 35 remains the rare thing that modern performance cars spend millions

📍 ‘Zandvoort Bows Out in Style.’ ▪️The Dutch Grand Prix said goodbye to Formula One with precisely the sort of afternoon it deserved: rain, strategy, team orders, a home hero in the wall ▪️And Lando Norris quietly winning the whole thing. ▪️Norris converted pole into his second consecutive Grand Prix victory, but it was anything

📍 ‘Some racing cars retire. Others never even make it to the starting grid.’ In 2007, Koenigsegg built the CCGT to take on Le Mans. Then the regulations changed and the dream disappeared before the car contested a single race. Nearly 20 years later, Christian von Koenigsegg has settled the matter. ♔ The result? The

📍 ‘Monterey has just delivered the biggest collector-car auction week on record.’ Nearly $750 million changed hands, with extraordinary results for a Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, McLaren F1 GTR and the modern Ferrari halo cars. But underneath the fireworks sits a more interesting message. The market isn’t buying everything. It is buying the best. ♔

‘The Quietest Paddock of the Year Is Making Plenty of Noise.’ Formula One is on holiday. Formula One politics most certainly isn’t. The engines are silent, but the 2027 driver market is stirring. Kimi Antonelli heads the summer break with a 50-point championship advantage — an increasingly awkward fact for anyone who thought Mercedes had

F1 2027: The Grid Is About to Become a Very Expensive Game of Musical Chairs ‘Formula One’s next great battle may not take place on the circuit. It may take place around a negotiating table.’ A remarkable proportion of the current grid faces contract decisions before 2027. That includes championship leader Kimi Antonelli — although