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03 November 2022 ‘It’s not incredible that so many cars look so similar. It’s incredible that cars look different at all.’ I don’t know about you, but I find it difficult to distinguish the various marques; apart from the more outrageous hypercar or two, they all look very similar. Many factors determine the shapes of […]

03 November 2022 ❖ Lewis Hamilton baffled onlookers on Sunday when he stepped up to the podium at the Mexican Grand Prix with a mysterious cut on his head. ❖ Fernando Alonso’s Alpine frustrations hit a new high in F1 Mexico City Grand Prix ❖ Daniel Ricciardo, who is looking likely to not be on

27 October 2022 The Bugatti Divo is a mid-engine track-focused sports car developed and manufactured by Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. The car named after French racing driver Albert Divo, who raced for Bugatti in the 1920s, winning the Targa Florio race twice. The Divo is a more exotic-looking and exclusive version of the Bugatti Chiron hypercar.

27 October 2022 A pioneer in motor racing, Maria Teresa de Filippis was the first woman to race in Formula One and participated in five World Championship Grand Prix races. She first raced a Maserati 250F on the 18th of May 1958 at Monaco and has since held the position of Vice President of the

27 October 2022 The F40 was the ultimate 80s status symbol; it swaggered outrageous styling and was the furthermost road-going Ferrari ever. Ferrari built the F40 to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary. The F40 car was a Berlinetta designed by Pininfarina and made from Kevlar, carbon fibre and aluminium, providing great strength and very low weight,

26 October 2022 ❖ Mercedes to change F1 car architecture for 2023, says Wolff ❖ Lewis Hamilton has claimed it’s ‘too early to say if Max Verstappen will dominate F1 after securing his second world title. ❖ There is one seat on the F1 grid remaining next year, with Haas still yet to decide who

20 October 2022 Lotus is making headlines; it is unveiling the new Lotus Evija Fittipaldi, with a target output of 2011 hp; this means the Evija is the world’s most powerful series production road car. This incredibly rapid four-wheel-drive machine hits 62 mph in less than three seconds while 0- 186 mph in under nine

20 October 2022 The car designer Ettore Bugatti came from a family of artists and sculptors. He modelled engine components, including crankshafts, in wood to assess them in aesthetic terms before committing them to production. Apparently, the engine of his Type 35 racing car is almost the perfect definition of a system of mechanics based

20 October 2022 Without the Aston Martin DB3S, Aston Martin’s final victory at Le Mans in 1959 with the DBR1 would not have happened. The Aston Martin DB3S is a sports racing car that Aston Martin built. Following the failure of the heavy and uncompetitive Aston Martin DB3 designed by Eberan Eberhorst. Introduced in 1953,

20 October 2022 There is a theory that the state of car design is not only a means of precisely calibrating the health of its culture but mirrors the obsessions of the age. In the 1930s, quality and reliability were paramount characteristics of motor cars, and coach-built cars imitated the grand hotels and country houses,