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15 December 2022 The Le Mans 24 Hours is the world’s oldest endurance sports car race. The first race took place in May 1923. It has been held mainly in June almost every year since, with a few exceptions. 1936 due to a labour strike and nine times due to the Second World War. The […]

15 December 2022 Michael Leiters joined McLaren as CEO in July 2022; he is ex-Porsche and Ferrari. ‘What I heard from my team here is that in the past, we accepted a non-mature product and would launch it and deliver it to the customers. Artura was the first project where we didn’t do that. We

15 December 2022 Over the years, there has been an abundance of nicknames for many of the drivers. Some complimentary and some not. By way of example, Red Bull driver Sergio Pérez known as Checo, and his other is the Mexican Minister of Defence; fans honoured the driver with the nickname after his unbelievable defending

15 December 2022 First introduced in 2021, the Formula 1 Sprint Race is like a shortened version of a regular race, intending to build more excitement into a race weekend. The Sprint Race is on Saturday, in the afternoon, runs over 100km, and lasts around 25-30 minutes, with no mandatory pit stops and drivers racing flat-out to

08 December 2022 Enzo’s creed was, ‘The Horse has to pull the cart, not push it. So when the idea of a rear-engined motor car was mooted, Enzo Ferrari was not enthralled with the concept. That is, until Sergio Pininfarina, the master of Italian style and Luigi Chinetti, the Italian race car driver, presented the

08December 2022 Aston Martin’s Engineering director Mike Loasby sketched a mechanical layout that would be packaged beneath an extraordinary silhouette; The Aston Martin Bulldog. It only progressed a little. Loasby left to join DeLorean, and Aston’s management was preoccupied with the Lagonda, whose metamorphosis from concept to production car was proving painful and long-winded. In

08 December 2022 In the music industry, Nick Mason is known as the famous drummer of Pink Floyd (previously known as the Tea Set). The group has sold 250 million copies worldwide and influenced many other musicians. As a petrolhead, Nick Mason is even more well-known. He owns one of the 39 Ferrari 250 GTOs

08 December 2022 McLaren has sold some of its 54 rare Formula 1 and F1 Supercars; according to its 2021 annual report, ‘the company sells cars from its collection from time to time. McLaren has recently sold 54 of its prized heritage car collection to Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat Holding to raise Capital to

08 December 2022 ‘Driving fast on the track doesn’t scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway, I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.’ – Juan Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio was born on 24 June 1911 and died of kidney failure and pneumonia on 17 July 1995.

06 December 2022 Founded in 1997, Radical is a Cambridge-based company that produces what it calls ‘sports racing cars’ for Gentlemen Racers. There are nine models to pick from, two of which are road legal, and just three have closed cockpits. The current cars have a range of engines. They span from the 1.4-litre Suzuki