Mike Fisherly

📍 ‘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 […]

♔ 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.

♔ Classic Car Market Intelligence Dashboard 📍 ‘There was a time when almost anything with a prancing horse or dramatic Italian exhaust note seemed capable of minting money overnight.’ That phase appears to be ending. Today’s market feels calmer. Smarter. More Savile Row than a cryptocurrency forum. Collectors increasingly want the right cars: manual gearboxes,

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

📍 ‘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

 📍 ‘The original Auto Union Type C looked less like a racing car and more like something designed by a brilliant German engineer who’d been awake for three days and drinking strong coffee.’ Which, to be fair, was probably accurate. Now Audi has revived the spirit of that extraordinary machine with the modern Auto Union Lucca. And

📍 ‘No Grand Prix this weekend means Formula 1’s drivers finally have a chance to breathe.’ Which, naturally, allows the team principals, manufacturers, lobbyists and investment strategists to begin fighting properly. Because modern Formula 1 now spends almost as much time negotiating power as it does chasing lap time. ♔ The full story ▪️A quiet Formula 1 weekend is

📍 ‘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