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08 September 2022 According to Mate Rimac, 0-60 in Under 1 Second is possible. There are two limiting factors, the mechanical grip required. Currently, tyre technology is not sufficiently advanced, and secondly, the potential g-force to an unaccustomed driver. To contextualise, Jay Leno driving a Tesla Plaid under absolutely perfectly prepared circumstances, achieved 60 mph […]

08 September 2022 Audi’s recent announcement at the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps Press Conference laid out plans for their future foray into F1. Audi has ruled out starting a new team. Audi board chairman Markus Duesmann said that the ‘starting position for development is much better if you start with an

01 September 2022 Mildred Mary Petre, better known by her married name, The Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, a successful businesswoman. The Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce was passionate about speed on land, at sea and in the air. In

01 September 2022 Alfredo (known as Alfredino) Ferrari was an Italian automotive engineer and the first son of automaker Enzo Ferrari. Long before the family business was a family empire, Enzo intended for his son to one day succeed him as Il Commendatore of Ferrari and began grooming him from a very young age. Alfredino

01 September 2022 Eighty-five years after three-time Le Mans winner Woolf Barnato famously raced the ‘Blue Train’ from Cannes to Calais. A modern-day Bentley Boy, Steven Kane, has recreated the legendary spirit in a tense four-hour, 14-minute sprint against Saudi Arabia’s only desert passenger train. Kane, as an official Bentley Team M-Sport driver driving a

01 September 2022 Mildred Mary Petre, better known by her married name, The Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, a successful businesswoman. The Hon. Mrs Victor Bruce was passionate about speed on land, at sea and in the air. In

01 September 2022 José Froilán González is not the most famous or successful of the Ferrari Formula 1 drivers. On 14 July 1951, at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the burly Argentinian gave Enzo Ferrari’s young team its first-ever F1 World Championship win. The win was spectacular for a couple of reasons; firstly, he

01 September 2022 ❖ Reportedly, Alpine are prepared to let Oscar Piastri leave for McLaren and has identified Pierre Gasly as a definite possibility for partner Esteban Gasly next year. ❖ Mick Schumacher’s contract with the Ferrari Driver Academy expires at the end of the season. Haas is looking for a replacement. ❖ Alonso backtracks

25 August 2022 For the 1970 Car Show season, Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the ItalDesign Porsche Tapiro; ‘a crisply folded mid-engined double gull-wing doored (gull-wing doors for both the passenger compartment and the engine bay) exotic coupé based on a Volkswagen Porsche 914/6. Prototypical metallic silver with a warm butterscotch leather-lined cabin adorned the Tapiro. A

25 August 2022 Ferrari LaFerrari, project name F150 was a limited production mid-engine mild hybrid sports car. Built between June 2013 and August 2018. Ferrari built 710 Ferrari LaFerrari. From June 2013 to January 2016, Ferrari built 500 Coupés, and between October 2016 and August 2018, they made 210 Apertas. LaFerrari was the first full