29 July 2022 Details of Porsche’s planned 50 per cent buy-in of the Red Bull Formula 1 team have been revealed in legal documents ahead of a potential announcement on August 4 2022; I understand the original announcement was planned for the early July Austrian Grand Prix. The ‘leak’ occurred because agreement from a worldwide […]
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29 July 2022 The Mercedes car has been slower than Red Bull and Ferrari this season; Mercedes was planning to do well at last weekend’s French Grand Prix held at the Circuit Paul Ricard with its flat track surface and high-speed corners. And do well they did; Lewis Hamilton, in his 300th F1 race, finished
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22 July 2022 During Le Mans Classic Race 2022, a particular Austrian driver, Lukas Halusa crashed it into a wall. The good news is the driver was unhurt, and the Ferrari 250 GT ‘Breadvan’ is salvageable. However, there is no guarantee that the manufacturer will be able to fix it or even want to. With
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22 July 2022 According to Autocar, Pagani Abandons EV Research To Focus On V12 Supercars. Horacio Pagani has disputed this statement and said that the company would continue to invest in researching and developing an electric car, the research for which began in 2018. It appears that Pagani’s research established that its supercar would require
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22 July 2022 The future of Aston Martin – which has been on the verge of bankruptcy eight times in its tumultuous 109-year history is being boosted by a massive new Saudi investment. Earlier this year, Tobias Moers, Aston’s CEO, left hurriedly; soon after, Aston Martin made a pre-tax loss of £111.6m in 2022’s first
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22 July 2022 ‘The Parties were bigger. The pace was faster. The shows were broader, the buildings were higher, the morals were looser, and the liquor was cheaper.’F Scott Fitzgerald on the 1920s. Al Capone, or Alphonse Capone, also called Scarface, was an American Prohibition-era gangster who dominated organised crime in Chicago and became perhaps
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15 July 2022 The Auto Union V16 Type C Streamline ’37 was a race car produced by Horch and Auto Union. That’s when, in 1932, the four companies Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer joined to form Auto Union AG, which would later become AUDI AG. And the company needed a new logo. The four interlocking
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15 July 2022 Exclusive! The new Bugatti will still use the W16 and be a Roadster. Back in mid-2020, a rumour regarding Bugatti building a one-off Chiron roadster was ‘doing the rounds; it kinda’ made sense since Bugatti hadn’t used the Chiron architecture for open-top. Before the Chiron, the Veyron offered the Grand Sport Roadster.
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15 July 2022 It doesn’t seem possible that it was as far back as late 2012 when the McLaren P1 debuted at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. Sales of the P1 began in the United Kingdom in October 2013, and by November 2013, all 375 units had been sold. The McLaren P1 is one of
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15 July 2022 The 1947 Geneva Motor Show saw the launch of the first Gran Turismo in Maserati history: the Tipo A6, better known as the A6 1500 Gran Turismo. The A6 1500 Gran Turismo was the first road-going Maserati automobile—a profound sports car designed by Pininfarina. It was the first road-going Maserati, of which only 61 examples were ever built.
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