Half the Periodic Table

For clarity: I’m summarising findings reported by external analysts, not presenting original research.  📍 ‘The future is electric. The infrastructure, sadly, is still Victorian.’ Electric cars promise salvation, but the reports I’m relaying suggest a more complicated picture. Cleaner at the tailpipe, yes — but far from impact-free. Full story below. ◌ Electric cars are […]

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Bravery & Cryogenics

📍 ‘Toyota has officially entered its mad-scientist era.’ Toyota has done something delightfully unhinged: it built a superconducting, liquid-hydrogen racer and hurled it around Fuji Speedway. Part science experiment, part motorsport theatre — and possibly a glimpse of hydrogen’s wild future. Full story below. ◌ Two-and-a-half years after proposing the idea, Toyota has produced something

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F1 Gossip

🏁 Next F1: Australian GP Date: Sunday, 8 March 2026 Track: Albert Park Circuit 📍’ Three names, two points, one season-defining finish — Abu Dhabi crowned Norris while Verstappen won the race. The intrigue starts here.’ ◌ Max Verstappen delivered with a lights‑to‑flag win — but it wasn’t enough. His four‑year reign ends. ◌ Lando Norris

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F1 Gossip

🏁 Next F1: Las Vegas GP Date: Sunday, 7 December 2025Track: Yas Marina Circuit 📍 ‘Squad-wide mayhem: Max Verstappen’s Qatar win throws the title fight wide open — suddenly it’s three-way at Yas Marina.’  ◌ Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team appoints legendary designer Adrian Newey as team principal for 2026 — a desperate gamble as they

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A Denial Trying to Escape

📍 ‘When an F1 boss goes gardening, it usually ends with someone else being pruned.’ Christian Horner has stepped back into the spotlight — first in Manhattan, then via a discreet late-night visit to Aston Martin’s Silverstone HQ. He isn’t gardening. He’s shopping. And the whisper is he’s being courted not for a headset, but

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The True Artistry

📍 ‘People think F1 drivers live like rock stars — yachts, parties, champagne.’ In reality, monks get more sleep and far fewer hydration briefings. Pre-season is a cocktail of VO₂ tests, heat chambers and seat fittings so precise they’d make a Savile Row cutter weep. And that’s before the jet lag, simulators and Turn-7-induced existential

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A Monaco Banker

📍 ‘The cost cap is like a diet: everyone claims they’re sticking to it, everyone cheats a bit, and someone eventually gets caught with a biscuit.’ Formula One’s budget cap was meant to rein in the excess — yet the sport still burns through money faster than a Mayfair hedge fund at an art auction.

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