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Belgium GPDate: Sunday, August 27Track: Circuit Zandvoort ✺ Sergio Perez explains ‘you’ll talk to me now’ radio exchange with Red Bull boss Christian Horner at F1 Belgian GP. ✺ Hamilton admits the 2024 contract talks’ emotional’. ✺ Perez said Hamilton was in such a hurry to pass me, and he just ruined my race. ✺ […]

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Bond’s E-type

The idea of James Bond driving anything bar an Aston Martin is inconceivable. Bond has driven Aston’s since the 1964 film Goldfinger; the association further enhances the carmaker as a symbol of luxury, sophistication, and quintessential Britishness. However, rumour has it that the original plan was to use a Jaguar E-type. Ken Adams, the film’s

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A Meteor Explodes

The Bugatti Bolide is a quad-turbo, 8.0-litre W16 motor car for Track-only. Bolide has several definitions; Racing Car, Missile and a giant meteor which explodes in the atmosphere all seem appropriate, given that the mid-mounted engine produces 1,578 hp. It has had a long gestation period; the concept was unveiled in 2020, followed by an

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Belgium GP Date: Sunday, July 30 Track: Spa Francorchamps ✺ F1 extends Hungarian GP contract to 2032 ✺ Max Verstappen is the Ambassador for Heineken 0.0. The ad’ is titled, ‘Best Driver’. ✺ Wolff reveals FIA has questioned Mercedes over F1 cost cap. ✺ Ralf Schumacher believes Sergio Perez’s ‘days at Red Bull are numbered’. ✺ Max

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A true Rebel.

Goodwood’s Festival of Speed witnessed the first sighting of Lamborghini’s SC63 hypercar for racing in the World Endurance Championship and the American IMSA next year. The SC63 is part of Lamborghini’s complete electrification blueprint, as announced in 2022. Lamborghini Chairman and CEO Stephan Winkelmann called the SC63 ‘the most advanced racing car ever produced by

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The Triumph of Jabbeke

The 20th of May 2023 was the 70th anniversary of a significant speed record. John Bolster wrote in Autosport that the TR2 was ‘the most important sports car to be introduced for some time, the first car to bring 100 mph performance within reach of the man of moderate means.’ Triumph TR2, registration MVC 575, driven by

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