Mike Fisherly

Formula One Gossip & Paddock Intelligence

📍 ‘The Canadian Grand Prix produced the sort of chaos Montreal specialises in.’ ▪️One minute, George Russell looked untouchable. ▪️The next, smoke. Then came young Kimi Antonelli — calm, ruthless, almost suspiciously grown-up for a teenager. ▪️Collecting a fourth consecutive victory as though winning Grands Prix were merely another GCSE subject. ▪️Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton finally looked properly at home […]

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Bentley Blue Train Legend

♔ The Bentley Blue Train Legend 📍 ‘Modern luxury brands spend fortunes attempting to manufacture exclusivity.’ Bentley built its reputation rather differently. By racing a train. Not metaphorically either. An actual train. And not just any train, but the impossibly glamorous Blue Train service carrying Europe’s aristocracy between the Riviera and Calais during the 1930s.

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Are There Any Good Buys Left?

Hypercar Market Pulse — Are There Any Good Buys Left? 📍 ‘The modern hypercar market increasingly resembles the private art world.’ Collectors are no longer chasing merely speed or theatre. They are chasing access. Today’s ultra-wealthy buyer wants something almost nobody else can obtain. Not necessarily faster. Simply unobtainable. Which explains why whispered allocations and

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Britain’s Hydrogen Heavyweight

📍 ‘Most hydrogen-powered vehicles resemble science projects on wheels.’ The JCB Hydromax, by contrast, looks like it could dismantle a small cathedral before lunch. Which rather misses the point of eco-virtue signalling — and makes it infinitely more interesting. ♔ The full story ▪️For years, the future of motoring has largely involved earnest people whispering about batteries while standing

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Arash Cars: Britain’s Last Hypercar Mavericks

📍 ‘Most hypercar companies begin with venture capital, marketing decks and a man in a cashmere rollneck explaining brand disruption.’ Arash Cars began with one determined engineer in Newmarket quietly building 200mph missiles because he genuinely loves cars. Which, these days, feels wonderfully rebellious. ♔ The full story ▪️Britain has always produced small automotive lunatics with extraordinary ideas. Lotus

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Fritz von Opel and the Rocket Car That Defied Logic

📍 ‘Long before Formula 1 argued about hybrid deployment maps and sustainable fuels.’ One German aristocrat looked at a motor car and thought: ‘What this really needs… is 24 rockets.’ Naturally, he then drove it. At speed. In public. ♔ The full story ▪️Motoring history occasionally produces moments so gloriously irrational that they feel almost fictional. Fritz von Opel and the Opel

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