📍 ‘War is deception. In Formula One, it’s just called Friday practice.’ Somewhere between the shriek of a V6 hybrid and the polite murmur of a Paddock Club canapé lies Sun Tzu’s Art of War. Strategy disguised as serenity. Calm faces mask chaos. From Ferrari’s quiet vengeance to Red Bull’s cunning ambushes, it’s not speed […]
📍 ‘Forget quiet comebacks — Formula 1 roars into autumn with scandal, strategy and a touch of champagne-fuelled chaos.’ ◼︎ George Russell dominates in Singapore to take pole‑to‑flag win as McLaren clinch the 2025 Constructors’ title. ◼︎ First‑lap skirmish: Norris forces past Piastri, triggering a heated radio eruption from McLaren’s lead driver. ◼︎ McLaren seals
📍 ‘Nineteen cars only — rarer than a decent table at Cipriani during Monaco week.’ A flight of design fancy: our imagined take on Zagato and Capricorn’s coupé of just 19 souls A new hypercar is coming — but not from the usual suspects in Woking, Stuttgart or Modena. Instead, Italy’s Zagato joined forces with
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📍 ‘Porsche has discovered what Mayfair already knew: silence is for libraries, not for motorcars.’ Porsche has performed a volte-face worthy of Covent Garden. The marque once pledged its next Grande crossover would be electric. Now? It arrives first with petrol and plug-in hybrid engines, positioned above the Cayenne. A scandal to purists, perhaps. But
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📍 ‘One can sip Cristal on the harbour or put a unicorn on a helmet — both guarantee you’ll be talked about.’ Carlos Sainz, Williams, and a unicorn. Not a slick sponsor’s logo, but a child’s sketch, plastered onto a racing helmet in Baku. Hours later, champagne flowed and Williams had its first podium in
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Next F1: Singapore GP Date: Sunday, 5 October 2025Track: Marina Bay Street Circuit 📍 ‘Whispers in the paddock suggest a blockbuster driver switch is brewing—contracts, egos, and billions at stake. Stay tuned…’ ◼︎ Christian Horner departs Red Bull with an £80 million payoff, sparking whispers of audacious 2026 team ownership ambitions. ◼︎ Romain Grosjean returns to
📍. ‘The Jaguar D-Type’s legend wasn’t built on comfort — Stirling Moss said it preferred escape roads to corners.’ Think of the Jaguar D-Type as the Concorde of the 1950s racetrack: fast, exotic, and just a little terrifying. Stirling Moss swore the C-Type was nicer to drive, yet he and Peter Walker still hit 172.97mph
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📍. ‘Every Porsche is a contradiction: practical enough for the school run, dangerous enough for Le Mans.’ From James Dean’s fatal 550 Spyder to the techno-wizardry of the 959, and the widow-maker Carrera GT to today’s Vision 357 Speedster. Porsche has always built cars that terrify, seduce, and bankrupt in equal measure. These are not
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📍 ‘At classic car auctions, half the money is spent on cars. The other half is spent convincing your wife it was an ‘investment.’ At Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival sale, the catalogue was thinner, the reserves thicker, and even the blue-chip machinery looked nervous. A brave Lancia went ‘no reserve’ and fetched half its estimate. A
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