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⚡️New feature for 2025 - introducing the C+S F

⚡️New feature for 2025 - introducing the C+S F1 Power Rankings! ⚡️

After every Grand Prix, we will award 3-2-1 points for the top 3 performers of the weekend 🏆 - and take off 1-2-3 for the three worst 🐌

As the years goes on we’ll tally the results to see who is on top 💪

🇦🇺 Australian Grand Prix power rankings:

+ 3️⃣ Lando Norris: Near flawless. This is the Lando we need to see for him to become WDC.

+ 2️⃣ Andrea Kimi Antonelli: Some rough edges, but incredible race craft and maturity for an 18-year-old.

+ 1️⃣Anthony Hamilton: His consoling of a Hadjak was a classy moment in the cut-throat world of F1.

- 1️⃣ Helmut Marko: Sometimes it’s better to say nothing. In Helmut’s case, most times.

- 2️⃣ Liam Lawson: Mexican fans couldn’t hit the laugh react fast enough. Harsh, but it wasn’t a great weekend.

- 3️⃣ Isack Hadjar: You have to feel for the kid. Paid a big price for the same mistake others would make.

What motorsport moment made you feel like doing th

What motorsport moment made you feel like doing this? 🥊 📺

(PSA - please don’t do this. If you do, you need help).

Did Mark Webber use up all of Australia’s good l

Did Mark Webber use up all of Australia’s good luck in 2002 or something??

@valtteribottas sampling one of F1’s most specta

@valtteribottas sampling one of F1’s most spectacular failures at Albert Park this morning—1999’s Supertec powered BAR 01.

The Mercedes reserve driver got behind the wheel of the Brackley squad’s first ever car, from several ownership changes ago when the team was known as British American Racing.

Despite sizeable tobacco funding, and proclamations by Team Principal Craig Pollock that BAR would win races, the car was dogged by reliability problems, scoring 0 points in the hands of Jacques Villeneuve, Riccardo Zonta and Mika Salo.

📸 @mercedesamgf1

Sinking tinnies 🍺 and eating lobster 🦞 while

Sinking tinnies 🍺 and eating lobster 🦞 while Senna, Prost and Mansell go about their business… does it get any better?

Corporate hospitality at the 1990 Australian GP at Adelaide.

📸 Unknown

Vale John French 1930-2025 An icon of Australian

Vale John French 1930-2025

An icon of Australian touring car racing, and a life well lived.

F1’s newest circuit has a name! 🇪🇸 What

F1’s newest circuit has a name! 🇪🇸

What do you think of the ‘Madring’ layout? The Madrid street circuit will join the F1 calendar in 2025.

1/4 mile head first in under 8 seconds with a 400h

1/4 mile head first in under 8 seconds with a 400hp Ford Cosworth at your feet… sure why not

To mark International Women’s Day, we look back

To mark International Women’s Day, we look back at one of the fastest women of them all—Shirley Muldowney, three-time NHRA Top Fuel champion.

The fastest accelerating race cars on the planet, Top Fuel dragsters can rocket to a nitro-fuelled 500km/h by the time you can count to four.

It’s the final frontier of motor racing—and until the 1970s, a male-only domain.

That was until Muldowney came along, becoming the first woman to be licensed to race Top Fuel by a reluctant National Hot Rod Association (NHRA).

“[The] NHRA fought me every inch of the way”, Shirley later recalled about her efforts to get a license.

“Don’t worry, she’s not going to amount to much”, was the reaction of drag racing legend Don ‘Big Daddy’ Garlits.

He couldn’t have been more wrong, as ‘Cha Cha’—as she was known by fans—went on to take her maiden victory in 1976 before winning the championship in 1977.

“When they saw how a girl could fill the stands, they saw I was good for the sport,” remembered Muldowney.

Further titles followed in 1980 and ‘82 as she became the first person to win three championships.

A horrific accident at Montreal in 1984 nearly killed her, leaving her with horrific leg, knee and hand injuries that required months of surgeries and rehab.

“Anybody who’s counting me out is dreaming”, she told People Magazine before returning in ‘86 and racing on and off until 2003.

In 2001 Muldowney was ranked fifth on the NHRA’s 50th Anniversary list of its all time Top 50 Drivers, and in 2004 was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.

📸 Unattributed

ADELAIDE ALIVE 🔥 Soundtracked by Benetton 🔵

ADELAIDE ALIVE 🔥

Soundtracked by Benetton 🔵🟡🟢🔴

@adelaidemotorsportfestival

📺 @j0shbarnett

🔈 Have you ever heard more enthusiastic comment

🔈 Have you ever heard more enthusiastic commentary?! 🇯🇵😂
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The Japanese commentators go WILD as Naoki Hattori slides into Pedro de la Rosa and out of the final race of the ‘96 Formula Nippon season—handing the championship to Ralf Schumacher.
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🎥 YouTube

When Arrows debuted in 1978, their FA1 looked susp

When Arrows debuted in 1978, their FA1 looked suspiciously like the Shadow DN9.

It’s little wonder, as both cars were designed by the same man, Tony Southgate, who—having designed the Shadow—received legal advice that said that he personally owned the copyright of the DN9 design and could essentially replicate it for his new employer, Arrows.

The London High Court disagreed and found that the FA1 was an illegal copy of the DN9 and shared 70% of its design.

The Court banned the FA1 and ordered the four examples built be broken up and returned to Shadow.

📸 Unattributed

F-111 x V8 Supercars 😍 1️⃣ Dick Johnson Ra

F-111 x V8 Supercars 😍

1️⃣ Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon EF V8 Supercar with an RAAF General Dynamics F-111
2️⃣ F-111 ‘dump and burn’ at the Gold Coast Indy 🔥

📸 Unattributed, 1973Sebastian2007 (YouTube)

While the 1998 Tyrrell 026 signalled the end of Ty

While the 1998 Tyrrell 026 signalled the end of Tyrrell’s time in Formula, it also marked the start of something new—with the car lending its DNA to a fleet of F1x2 two-seaters that would operate for 25 years.

After Tyrrell was sold to British American Tobacco, many of the team’s assets were snapped up by Australian entrepreneur and motor racing fanatic Paul Stoddart, who launched the F1x2 program in 1999.

Painted in the colours of Arrows (who Stoddart’s European Aviation sponsored at the time), the F1x2 was based on a Tyrrell 026 and powered by a 700hp Cosworth V10.

Lengthened by 200mm to accomodate a passenger seated behind the driver, the cars were built to FIA safety specs and offered performance similar to a contemporary Formula 1 car.

All up, eight were built.

After Stoddart purchased Minardi in early 2001, the F1x2s were repainted black, and reborn as Minardis.

The cars were used for promotional activities, most notably at Donington that year when a two-seater ‘Grand Prix’ was held—won by Stoddart with American singer Kelis in the back seat after a late race crash between Nigel Mansell and Fernando Alonso.

Stoddart sold Minardi to Red Bull in 2005, and by 2006 over 2,000 passengers had experienced the thrill of F1 from the passenger seat.

Stoddart continued to run the F1x2 fleet, firstly alongside Minardi Team USA in 2007, before beginning regular appearances at the Australian Grand Prix from 2009.

In 2017, they became part of the F1 Experiences program. By then almost 20 years old, the cars were given an overhaul under the watch of Mike Gascoyne. They were updated with new electronics and modern aerodynamics, and two new chassis built.

Stoddart also purchased equipment from an auction of Manor’s assets, making the F1 Experiences two-seater program almost a quasi 11th team.

Finally, in 2022 it was reported that the cars had been retired after “coming to the end of their working life”, marking the end of the line for the Tyrrell-Arrows-Minardi-Manor two-seater.

📸 Unattributed

Gene Hackman 1930-2025 Remembering Hollywood lege

Gene Hackman 1930-2025

Remembering Hollywood legend Gene Hackman who—like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen—combined driving fast on the silver screen with the real thing.

Hackman became a racing enthusiast after filming ‘The French Connection’, and went onto dabble in Formula Ford racing.

He would go on to win three Toyota Celebrity races at Long Beach and Watkins Glen, and also competed in the 1983 Daytona 24 Hour, driving one of Dan Gurney’s box-arched Celicas.

📸 Unattributed

Please don’t do this.

Please don’t do this.

@cam_waters driving a Ford Mustang Supercar at Syd

@cam_waters driving a Ford Mustang Supercar at Sydney International Speedway 💚🖤

📸 @clayperviewteam

Savage commentary from John Watson: “Rosset you

Savage commentary from John Watson: “Rosset you fool, do you not use your eyesight…”

In 1977, a 22-year old student at Auckland Univers

In 1977, a 22-year old student at Auckland University used a primitive university computer to design front and rear wings for his Yamaha TZ750A racing bike.

Rodger Freeth—who later earned a Ph.D in Physics—practised the modified ‘aerofoil’ TZ750A at Pukekohe and claimed a noticeable gain, particularly down the Auckland circuit’s bumpy back straight.

The controversial design quickly garnered attention from other riders, who became concerned they could become tangled in the wings while racing closely.

The sport’s governing body moved to ban the rear wing, before outlawing the design altogether on safety grounds—but not before Freeth could finish second to John Woodley’s Suzuki RG500 in a trio of races at Hawkesbury.

📸 Motorcycle Trader NZ, Unattributed

Ferrari feat. White ⚪️ Yay or nay?

Ferrari feat. White ⚪️

Yay or nay?

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