🚩 Some racing cars look fast. The Bugatti Type 35 looked as though it had been drawn by somebody who considered ugliness a personal failing. Yet beneath that extraordinary elegance sat one of the most formidable competition cars ever created. A century later, the Type 35 remains the rare thing that modern performance cars spend millions
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📍 ‘Zandvoort Bows Out in Style.’ ▪️The Dutch Grand Prix said goodbye to Formula One with precisely the sort of afternoon it deserved: rain, strategy, team orders, a home hero in the wall ▪️And Lando Norris quietly winning the whole thing. ▪️Norris converted pole into his second consecutive Grand Prix victory, but it was anything
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📍 ‘Some racing cars retire. Others never even make it to the starting grid.’ In 2007, Koenigsegg built the CCGT to take on Le Mans. Then the regulations changed and the dream disappeared before the car contested a single race. Nearly 20 years later, Christian von Koenigsegg has settled the matter. ♔ The result? The
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📍 ‘Thirty-four years after the McLaren F1 rewrote the supercar rulebook, Gordon Murray has effectively done it again.’ The new GMSV S1 has a central driving position, three seats, a naturally aspirated V12 and — gloriously — a six-speed manual gearbox. No hybrid assistance. No enormous rear wing. No attempt to impress the Nürburgring timing
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📍 ‘Monterey has just delivered the biggest collector-car auction week on record.’ Nearly $750 million changed hands, with extraordinary results for a Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, McLaren F1 GTR and the modern Ferrari halo cars. But underneath the fireworks sits a more interesting message. The market isn’t buying everything. It is buying the best. ♔
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‘The Quietest Paddock of the Year Is Making Plenty of Noise.’ Formula One is on holiday. Formula One politics most certainly isn’t. The engines are silent, but the 2027 driver market is stirring. Kimi Antonelli heads the summer break with a 50-point championship advantage — an increasingly awkward fact for anyone who thought Mercedes had
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F1 2027: The Grid Is About to Become a Very Expensive Game of Musical Chairs ‘Formula One’s next great battle may not take place on the circuit. It may take place around a negotiating table.’ A remarkable proportion of the current grid faces contract decisions before 2027. That includes championship leader Kimi Antonelli — although
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📍 ‘Monterey has delivered the market signal everyone was waiting for.’ ▪️Nick Mason’s Pop Art McLaren F1 GTR sold for $34.655 million at RM Sotheby’s. Not quite the headline $35 million marker, but hardly a disappointment. The message is clear: exceptional cars still command the room. Irreplaceable ones require a larger room. ♔ Full Story
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Nick Mason’s Pop Art McLaren F1 GTR has sold for $34.655 million at RM Sotheby’s Monterey. It missed the $35 million headline marker by a whisker, but the real story is bigger. A British racing prototype, road-converted by McLaren and owned by Pink Floyd’s drummer, has just become market evidence. ♔ Full Story 📍 Some
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