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  • Gone Forever: Archerfield Speedway to Close, June 2023
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  • 10 Minutes with Touring Car Legend John Bowe
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  • T-Minus: Arrows Saviour Turned Swindler to Run for President
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  • Introducing the Slicks ’88 Grand Prix World Tour Tee
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  • C+S Featured on the DRS Zone Podcast
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Remember when we posted this clip from Brooklands Remember when we posted this clip from Brooklands and people absolutely kicked off about it?!
We didn’t realise just how good we had it. Now t We didn’t realise just how good we had it. Now that’s what a racing car should look like 😍
It’s one of the most bizarre things to happen du It’s one of the most bizarre things to happen during a race - a Boeing 767 making an emergency landing in the middle of a race meeting.

It sounds far-fetched, but it really happened back in July 1983, at a de-commissioned Canadian Air Force Base in Gimli that was hosting a Winnipeg Sports Car Club event.

Somewhere overhead, an Air Canada 767 carrying 61 passengers had run out of fuel and desperately needed somewhere to make an emergency landing. 

The disused runway was perfect—apart from the hundreds of drivers and spectators in the area. 

With no fuel, reduced hydraulic power and front landing gear still retracted, the pilots skilfully managed to glide the ‘Gimli Glider’ down for a safe landing. 

No one was hurt, but you can imagine the reactions of drivers and spectators alike as the enormous jet dropped in!

📸 Winnipeg Free Press
Sights and sounds of Group C… turn it up 🔈 Sights and sounds of Group C… turn it up 🔈
Your Mexico City GP power rankings are in 💪🇲 Your Mexico City GP power rankings are in 💪🇲🇽 

(And apologies to our Kiwi friends… we’ve finally fixed the flag stuff-up 😅)

Who’s Hot 🔥

+3 🇬🇧 Oliver Bearman – It’s not just the P4 that was excellent, it’s how he got there — on merit. Bloody good drive.

+2 🇬🇧 Lando Norris – From on the ropes after Hungary to leading the WDC. PS. Where did pre-Baku Piastri go??

+1 🇲🇽 The Crowd – Sell-out crowd and an absolutely raucous atmosphere. Add it to your bucket list.

Who’s Not ❄️

-3 🧑‍🚒 Marshals on the track – Most of us have seen Tom Pryce’s accident and don’t want to see it again. Scary stuff.

-2 🏁 Late Race VSC – Deployed because checks notes Sainz was parked behind a wall. Late, confusing, unnecessary.

-1 🇬🇧 Booing Lando Norris – Is it just me, or is Lando nowhere near enough of a villain to warrant booing like that? Weird.

Standings After Round 20 – Who’s Hot 🔥
🇳🇱 12 Max Verstappen
🇬🇧 10 Lando Norris
🇲🇨 9 Charles Leclerc
🇦🇺 8 Oscar Piastri
🇧🇷 7 Gabriel Bortoleto

Standings After Round 20 – Who’s Not ❄️
🇫🇷 -8 Alpine
🇬🇧 -7 Aston Martin
🇮🇹 -6 Ferrari
🏁 -6 The race itself
🇨🇦 -5 Lance Stroll
Iconic celebrations 🇫🇷 1986 F1 World Driver Iconic celebrations 🇫🇷

1986 F1 World Drivers Champion Alain Prost taking the McLaren MP4/2 down Champs-Elysées in Paris - with the WRC title winning Group B Peugeot 205 for company. 

📸 Alex Duclos, Jean-François Galton
Vale Garry Rogers 1945-2025 An absolute legend of Vale Garry Rogers 1945-2025

An absolute legend of Australian motor racing - a colourful larrikin and a hard-nosed racer and team owner.
Your US GP power rankings are in 🇺🇸 Who’s Your US GP power rankings are in 🇺🇸

Who’s Hot 🔥

+3 🇳🇱 Max Verstappen – Crofty’s Jurassic Park analogy says it all: “there’s your T-Rex, ladies and gentlemen (Max), and Lando and Oscar are in the jeep.”

+2 🇲🇨 Charles Leclerc – Somebody give this man a car to fight for the WDC.

+1 🇬🇧 Jenson Button’s face – Really nailing the Jim Halpert ‘glare to camera’ whenever Danica Patrick speaks.

Who’s Not ❄️

-3 🇬🇧 Williams – All downhill after Sainz’s sprint race podium. 0 points on Sunday a poor return.

-2 🏁 The Race – Leclerc did his best to inject some interest into what was otherwise a real snoozer.

-1 🇦🇺 Oscar Piastri – Beaten by Max and Lando for the fourth weekend in a row. Needs to find some form again and fast.

Standings After Round 18 – Who’s Hot 🔥

1. 🇳🇱 Max Verstappen – 12
2. 🇲🇨 Charles Leclerc – 10
3. 🇬🇧 Lando Norris – 9
4. 🇦🇺 Oscar Piastri – 8
5. 🇧🇷 Gabriel Bortoleto – 7

Standings After Round 18 – Who’s Not ❄️

1. 🇫🇷 Alpine – -8
2. 🇬🇧 Aston Martin – -7
3. 🇮🇹 Ferrari – -6
4. 🏁 The race itself – -6
5. 🇨🇦 Lance Stroll – -5
The way it used to be. Spa-Francochamps in the ra The way it used to be.

Spa-Francochamps in the rain, 1968. A farmer milks a cow as Graham Hill blazes by in the Gold Leaf Lotus 49B.

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Pics that go hard 👌 Pics that go hard 👌
This is Australia. This is Australia.
Sometimes I remember Holden doesn’t exist anymor Sometimes I remember Holden doesn’t exist anymore and then I get sad 😭
Jean Alesi testing the Ferrari F92A at the Nardò Jean Alesi testing the Ferrari F92A at the Nardò Ring —a 12.5-kilometre, constant radius high speed test oval in Southern Italy opened by Fiat in 1975 (the ring is now owned by Porsche Engineering).

The track’s four lanes or ‘rings’ are each banked at the exact angle for drivers to be able lo drive without having to turn at speeds up to 240km/h—walking pace for the V12 powered Ferrari!

It wasn’t the only Formula 1 appearance at the track. In 1977, Niki Lauda tested Ferrari’s six-wheeled 312 T6 here, with the Austrian making cautiously optimistic comments about the unique car afterwards. 

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Onboard footage is part and parcel of motor racing Onboard footage is part and parcel of motor racing coverage today, but it wasn’t always the case. For John Frankenheimer’s 1966 movie Grand Prix, enormous movie cameras were strapped to cars during practice sessions to record onboard footage for use in the film. 

The shift to live onboard coverage began when Australian TV network ATN-7 installed a 70kg camera in Peter Williamson’s Toyota Celica at the 1979 Bathurst 1000. 

Footage was relayed back to the pits by microwave transmitter and helicopter, giving viewers in-car access, complete with Williamson’s commentary. 

Innovations including Bumpercam, Roofcam and Clearview (to remove grit from the lense) added to the viewer experience as the technology went global—by 1991 Rick Mears would win the Indy 500 with Racecam technology in his car.

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Your Singapore GP power rankings are in! 🌃🇸🇬

Who’s Hot 🔥

+3 🇬🇧 George Russell – Before the start of the year, we doubted George was the man to lead Mercedes. We were wrong.

+2 🇪🇸 Fernando Alonso – If we were awarding points for f-bombs, Fernando would be +5 alone for his post-race radio messages. Great drive to P7.

+1 🇬🇧 Lando Norris – After benefiting from Piastri’s help lately, Lando repaid Oscar with a brash (but fair) Lap 1 move. Advantage Lando… for now.

Who’s Not ❄️

-3 🟢 Race direction – Made the race seem more boring than it was, missing some good scraps up and down the field.

-2 🏁 Singapore circuit – Err, sure we want a sprint race here in ‘26? We like the track, but does it work with today’s gargantuan cars?

-1 🇯🇵 Yuki Tsunoda – As Max continued RBR’s late season resurgence with P2, Yuki finished a lap behind him in 12th.

Standings After Round 18 – Who’s Hot 🔥

1. 🇦🇺 Oscar Piastri – 9
2. 🇳🇱 Max Verstappen – 9
3. 🇬🇧 Lando Norris – 9
4. 🇲🇨 Charles Leclerc – 8
5. 🇧🇷 Gabriel Bortoleto – 7

Standings After Round 18 – Who’s Not ❄️
1. 🇫🇷 Alpine -8
2. 🇬🇧 Aston Martin -7
3. 🇮🇹 Ferrari -6
4. 🏁 The race itself -4
5. 🇨🇦 Lance Stroll -4
Where are you sitting? Where are you sitting?
Nigel Mansell in a Lotus 87 vs JPS Velden Powerboa Nigel Mansell in a Lotus 87 vs JPS Velden Powerboat 😲

How about Nige slowing down on the grass at 115mph!
Rare photos of Denny Hulme testing a CART Galles R Rare photos of Denny Hulme testing a CART Galles Racing March at Australia’s Calder Park Raceway in 1986.

The Calder Park decals on the car and Bob Jane logo of Denny’s overalls suggest the drive was a promotional activity for Jane’s Calder Park. 

Do you know any more details? 

Let us know in the comments 👇

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Vale Enzo Osella - one of Formula 1’s last ‘ga Vale Enzo Osella - one of Formula 1’s last ‘garagistas’
“Honestly your cars are so quick that we would s “Honestly your cars are so quick that we would still be competitive with a few extra pounds used to make the weakest parts stronger“

- Jochen Rindt in a letter to Colin Chapman in 1969. Rindt would lose his life driving a Lotus at Monza the following year.
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