Mike Fisherly

🏁 When Suzuka Chooses Its Champion Early Suzuka doesn’t whisper—it reveals. A commanding win, a reshuffled order, and suddenly Formula One looks rather different at the top. ♔ This Week in Motoring Intelligence 📍 ‘There are circuits that host races… and then there is Suzuka.’ ◼︎ A place where the greats tend to separate themselves not through drama, but through […]

📍 ‘The Car That Never Was: Bugatti’s ‘Other’ Atlantic’ There’s something deliciously intriguing about a Bugatti you can’t buy… because it never existed. The ‘Atlantic’ — whispered about in 2015 — was meant to be the thinking man’s Bugatti. Front-engined, subtly restrained (by Bugatti standards), and almost… usable. A €1–2 million daily driver from Molsheim. Imagine that sentence

Dream Cars:   ‘Ask ten people about their dream car, and you’ll get ten entirely different answers.’  For some, it’s outright speed — numbers, lap times, engineering theatre. For others, it’s something quieter: the satisfaction of a perfectly restored classic, or a machine-built piece by meticulous piece. And then there are the cars that transcend all

📍 ‘Monaco, today, is champagne, yachts, and qualifying laps measured in atoms.’ But in 1929, it was something far more entertaining: a gamble.  A tight ribbon of public road, lined with lampposts, stone walls, and optimism. No run-offs. No safety cars. Just bravery… and Bugatti’s. And then, quite wonderfully, an unknown Englishman turned up — and

Regulation & Governance FIA under increasing pressure to fast‑track engine ‘catch‑up’ mechanisms amid fears of early competitive imbalance. 2026 regulations dividing the paddock, with drivers arguing that cars are overly complex and energy-management-dominated. Private drivers’ meeting leak in Melbourne exposes internal dissatisfaction with new rules and governance direction. FIA is already moving to close suspected

Your car now updates overnight… like a phone. That’s precisely the problem.  Software-defined vehicles promise brilliance — and deliver irritation. Features appear, disappear, or hide behind subscriptions. The driving experience is no longer engineered — it’s version-controlled. Progress, it seems, now comes with a loading screen.  Full Story The pitch: Cars, reimagined as rolling software

Sixty-five years ago, a car arrived late… and still managed to stop time.  The Jaguar E-type didn’t just debut — it detonated expectations. Fresh from a flat-out run from Coventry, it rolled in warm and unapologetic. Within minutes, the world recalibrated what ‘beautiful’ meant in a motor car. Some cars launch. Others rewrite history.  ♔

📍 ‘Melbourne felt like theatre without tension. Then Shanghai quietly rewrote the script.’  New-era Formula 1 revealed its sharp edge: energy, not bravery, now dictates the duel. Overtakes came in waves — but so did vulnerability. Deploy too early, and you become prey before the straight even ends. The combustion engine still roars — but