♔ ‘Eight miles of nostalgia, wine, and wonderfully unfiltered exhausts.’ Golden Ghosts at Le Mans – The 2025 Classic Every Other Summer, Something Magical Happens The roads around Le Mans are shut. The café terraces buzz with Champagne and Camembert. And then… the ghosts arrive. Bentleys. Bugatti’s. Raging Matras. Screaming Porsche 917s. All back where […]
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♔ ‘First, it killed a Hollywood icon. Then it went on tour.’ James Dean’s Porsche 550 Spyder – Cursed, or Just Unlucky? The Beginning of the End James Dean bought a Porsche 550 Spyder on 21 September 1955. Nicknames it Little Bastard. Nine days later, he’s killed while driving it to Salinas for a race.
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The Problem with Owning a Hypercar ♔ ‘One press of the throttle and your chiropractor gets a new kitchen.’ The Moment of Madness You’d promised yourself “no more toys.” Then an Italian V12 on YouTube backfired like a cannon, and you were calling your dealer before the music finished. The Arrival It turned up on
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Next F1: Dutch GP Date: Sunday, 31 August 2025Track: Circuit Zandvoort 🏁 Following the Hungarian GP, Formula 1 enters its mandatory summer shutdown: a 14-day factory closure all teams must observe. 📍 ‘A paddock whisper you weren’t supposed to hear.’ ‘I’m not here to play nice in team photos. I’m here to win the bloody title.’
📍 ‘You don’t drive the Lanzante 95-59. You wear it — like a Savile Row suit that does 220mph.’ Lanzante has built a three-seat hypercar. No, not McLaren. Lanzante. The people who won Le Mans in ’95. It’s called the 95-59 — a nod to the year and race number of their triumph. Carbon tub,
📍 ‘They say Le Mans finds you out. Paul Newman arrived, charmed it, and very nearly conquered it.’ Le Mans, 1979: Porsche’s factory prototypes were meant to dominate. But in true Hollywood fashion, the script was hijacked by Paul bloody Newman. A movie star. A gentleman racer. And a 54-year-old who very nearly won the
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📍 ‘It’s not a hypercar with space for luggage. It’s a GT with a PhD in violence.’ A four-seat Koenigsegg? Yes, one seat for you, one for your lawyer, one for your child, and one for your sense of disbelief. The Gemera isn’t a car. It’s a Scandinavian thunderbolt with ISOFIX. It does 0–60
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Next F1: Hungarian GPDate: Sunday, 3 August 2025Track: Hungaroring ♖ Torrential rain delayed the Belgian GP start by 90 minutes, causing chaos behind the safety car until racing finally began on lap 5! ♖ Oscar Piastri launched into the lead at Kemmel on lap five and never looked back—win number six, title lead extended. ♖ Despite