📍 ‘The 1972 Jensen Interceptor III was Britain’s velvet-gloved muscle car.’ Italian suit, American heart, gentleman’s manners… mostly. Now, another revival attempt promises a clean-sheet, analogue V8 GT built in tiny numbers. Same spirit, modern execution. If Jensen always felt like a brilliant what-if, this new chapter suggests the question still refuses to die — and thank goodness for […]
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📍 ‘HEADLINES’ ◼︎ Barcelona Testing: Mercedes & Ferrari Impress, Reliability Over Pace — First pre‑season shakedown under 2026 regs delivers solid mileage and data; Mercedes tops laps, Ferrari shows improved performance. ◼︎ Red Bull Rookie Crash and Strong Showing — Isack Hadjar crashes Red Bull but also posts a competitive day one time amid encouragement on performance. ◼︎
📍 ‘The P24 RS isn’t interested in luxury, screens, or social approval.‘It exists for one reason only: to feel faster than your brain can process. Brutal, beautiful, and proudly analogue. 👉 Full story below. ◼︎ The lineage: Donkervoort has spent decades quietly ignoring the rest of the industry. While others added mass and marketing, they refined a single obsession: lightness. ◼︎
Donkervoort doesn’t chase trends. It removes weight. Read More »
‘So when it builds a road car, it looks suspiciously like a Formula One refugee with number plates.’ The RB17 isn’t a hypercar chasing luxury. It’s a lap time, bottled and sold to 50 people who truly understand why that matters. Full story below. The context: In a world where hypercars have become rolling jewellery, Red
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📍 ‘Paris became a boardroom of chrome and capital, where history wore a price tag, and provenance mattered more than horsepower.’ Fifty years on, this was less about yesterday and more about why yesterday still pays. 👉 Full story below. ◼︎ The setting: January in Paris. Grey skies, good tailoring, and Paris Expo Porte de Versailles humming
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But it’s still powered by something far simpler. 📍 ‘Money.’ And according to Sportico, Lewis Hamilton remains extremely good at collecting it. The full story Lewis Hamilton has been named among Sportico’s top 100 highest-paid athletes of 2025, sitting a rather elegant 11th overall — and still the highest-earning driver in Formula 1. This, despite what can
Formula 1 may run on data, tyres and carbon fibre. Read More »
Not the fastest. Not the most expensive. 📍 ‘The one that everyone prays never appears.’ Mercedes is now in sole charge of keeping F1 safe — and Aston Martin has quietly exited stage left. ❖ The full story Formula 1 will return to a familiar arrangement this season: Mercedes as the sole supplier of the Safety and
Formula 1 has finally made a decision about its most important car. Read More »
📍 ‘It built a farewell letter.’ Carbon fibre, W16 thunder, and a name that reads like a whispered apology: F.K.P. Hommage. Not a model. A monument. The full story Some cars arrive with noise. Others arrive with meaning. The Bugatti F.K.P. Hommage is firmly the latter. ❖ A deeply personal tribute to Ferdinand Karl Piëch, the man who dragged Bugatti
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1) Power Units Become the Primary Competitive Asset ‘The 2026 regulations shift performance emphasis decisively toward energy management and electrical output.’ Teams aligned with strong engine partners (Mercedes, Audi, Honda/Aston Martin) gain disproportionate leverage. Chassis excellence alone will no longer compensate for powertrain weakness. ❖ Implication: Long-term competitiveness now depends more on supplier relationships and internal power unit capability
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📍 ‘Rolls-Royce once feared speed.’ Actively distrusted it, in fact. While rivals chased horsepower and glamour, Rolls-Royce worried that performance was a moral failing — a dangerous infection threatening its very soul. History, as ever, had other ideas. ❖ The full story In the years after the First World War, Rolls-Royce found itself facing a problem it
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