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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. ◼︎ […]

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Donkervoort doesn’t chase trends. It removes weight.

📍 ‘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. ◼︎

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Rétromobile 2026 wasn’t nostalgia — it was theatre.

📍 ‘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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Formula 1 may run on data, tyres and carbon fibre.

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

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Formula 1: Strategic Implications Brief

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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The Serpent of Speed

📍 ‘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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Around the Paddock – This week in F1

🏁 Gossip & Paddock Headlines ◼︎ Red Bull unveils RB22 2026 car; Verstappen calls new rules ‘step into the unknown.’ ◼︎ Red Bull & Racing Bulls launch 2026 liveries with Ford power unit partnership debut. ◼︎ Ferrari shakes up Lewis Hamilton’s engineering crew with race engineer reassignment. ◼︎ Alpine and Jack Doohan part ways; Doohan exits the team ahead

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