🏁 Gossip & Paddock Headlines ◼︎ Red Bull unveils RB22 2026 car; Verstappen calls new rules ‘step into the unknown.’ ◼︎ Red Bull & Racing Bulls launch 2026 liveries with Ford power unit partnership debut. ◼︎ Ferrari shakes up Lewis Hamilton’s engineering crew with race engineer reassignment. ◼︎ Alpine and Jack Doohan part ways; Doohan exits the team ahead
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📍 ‘Between 1962 and 1964, Ferrari built what is now widely regarded as the holy grail of classic cars: the 250 GTO.’ Not a styling exercise. Not a luxury statement. But a racing machine built with absolute clarity of purpose. ◼︎ Only 36 examples were produced, each handcrafted for competition. Aluminium bodywork was shaped by eye, not algorithm. The 3.0-litre
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📍 ‘Porsche has never been shy of reinvention, but the transformation now underway may be its most consequential yet.’ The company faces an uncomfortable reality: to return to the profitability levels expected of a modern luxury manufacturer, it must cut costs by several billion euros. For a brand long associated with engineering indulgence and enviable margins, that
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📍 ‘Christian Horner, American Capital, and a Very Aston Martin Twist.’ For over 20 years, Christian Horner was Formula 1’s great constant. Eight Drivers’ Championships. A Red Bull empire. A team principal so embedded in the paddock furniture that imagining F1 without him felt faintly absurd. ◼︎ And then he was gone. Since Horner’s abrupt exit from Red Bull
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◼︎ Sky Sports F1 channel resurfaces after offseason shuffle — dedicated coverage returns just over a month before pre-season tests kick off in Bahrain (Australia season start March 8). ◼︎ Mercedes announces launch date for the W17 car — adding fuel to chatter about Ferrari’s own allegedly ‘revolutionary’ 2026 design as teams gear up for
📍 ‘When an 80-year-old workhorse adds leather without apology.’ ⏱ 4-minute read Born as a tool. Hardened by industry. Now quietly civilised. Mercedes-Benz marks 80 years of the Unimog by proving that true icons don’t need to be softened. The Unimog was never meant to be luxurious. Which is precisely why this works. For 80 years, Mercedes’ most uncompromising machine
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📍 ‘Why the next regulation reset changes everything.’ ⏱ 4-minute read Smaller, lighter cars. Active aerodynamics. Drivers handed more control — and more responsibility. Add a contract market on the brink, and 2026 starts to look decisive. Formula 1 doesn’t often reinvent itself. In 2026, it does precisely that. Smaller, lighter cars. Active aerodynamics. Drivers handed more control — and
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📍 ‘Monaco, movie stars, and a rookie’s education.’ ⏱ 3-minute read A young Formula 1 driver. A Hollywood film crew. A handful of diamonds that vanished on the streets of Monaco — and a lesson learned rather earlier than planned. Before he was spraying champagne, he was losing diamonds in Monaco. Formula 1’s most glamorous paddock has always attracted movie
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📍 ‘What’s really moving while nothing appears to be.’ ⏱ 3-minute read No racing. No headlines. Plenty of quiet positioning. Winter in Formula 1 is where intentions form — long before confirmations arrive. Winter in Formula 1 doesn’t mean silence. It just means quieter conversations. The cars are parked. The drivers are skiing, training, or quietly positioning themselves. Behind closed doors,