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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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Which Kimi Raikkonen are you today? Me? I’m a Which Kimi Raikkonen are you today? 

Me? I’m a 1.
F1 safety, 1970s style 😳 After a fiery shunt a F1 safety, 1970s style 😳

After a fiery shunt at the 1976 US GP, Jacky Ickx was taken to hospital. What happened on the way beggars belief… 

“The car was cut in two. They decided to take me to hospital in Elmira, but on the way they had to stop at a gas station to put petrol in the ambulance.”
Look I don’t want to be that guy who says things Look I don’t want to be that guy who says things used to be better… but things used to be better.

Anyone else think Lusail/Abu Dhabi is the worst imaginable way to finish the WDC?
Your Las Vegas GP power rankings are in after a ra Your Las Vegas GP power rankings are in after a race that’s blown the WDC wide open 🇺🇸

Who’s Hot 🔥

+3 🇳🇱 Max Verstappen – What Verstappens in Vegas stays in Vegas! With McLaren’s double DSQ, Max’s long-shot WDC hopes are now well and truly ON.

+2 🇮🇹 Kimi Antonelli – Jump start was a blot on the copybook, but drove with maturity beyond his years on the way to P4 which became P5 and then P3.

+1 🇺🇸 LEGO Cadillac – Things you don’t expect to see: Terry Crews singing Vanessa Carlton in a LEGO Cadillac with Max, Lando & George in the back.

Who’s Not ❄️

-3 🇬🇧 McLaren – Anyone else getting 1986 or 2007 vibes? Catastrophic double DSQ blows the WDC right open.

-2 🇯🇵 Yuki Tsunoda – Mitigating circumstances notwithstanding (penalty for PU change), another torrid weekend in a nightmare season.

-1 🇧🇷 Gabriel Bortoleto – Clumsy rookie mistake — these things happen with rookies. Picks up a five-place grid penalty for Qatar.

Standings After Round 22 – Who’s Hot 🔥
🇳🇱 17 Max Verstappen
🇬🇧 11 Lando Norris
🇲🇨 10 Charles Leclerc
🇦🇺 8 Oscar Piastri
🇬🇧 6 George Russell / 🇩🇪 Nico Hülkenberg / 🇹🇭 Alex Albon

Standings After Round 22 – Who’s Not ❄️
🇫🇷 -8 Alpine
🇮🇹 -8 Ferrari
🇬🇧 -7 Aston Martin
🏁 -7 The race itself
🇬🇧 -6 Williams / 🇯🇵 Yuki Tsunoda
Iconic scenes at Bathurst 1977 as Allan Moffat lea Iconic scenes at Bathurst 1977 as Allan Moffat leads home a Ford 1-2.
Vale Allan Moffat OBE 1939-2025 🇦🇺🇨🇦 Vale Allan Moffat OBE 1939-2025 🇦🇺🇨🇦

A true legend of Australian motor racing, his record speaks for itself: 4 Bathurst 1000 wins, 4 Australian Touring Car Championships, and 6 Sandown 500 wins.

He also raced internationally, winning the 1975 12 Hours of Sebring and securing a class victory at the 1982 24 Hours or Daytona. 

As well as that, Moffat ushered in a new era of professionalism, and formed one-half of one of the great rivalries - there was Peter Brock, and there was Allan Moffat. 

Farewell to an icon.
BMW 318i (Allan Moffat) vs Holden VX Commodore V8 BMW 318i (Allan Moffat) vs Holden VX Commodore V8 Supercar (Larry Perkins) vs Williams BMW FW22 (Marc Gene). 

2001 Australian GP speed comparison… always a fun event!
Mazda 787B but make it black 🔥🖤 Mazda 787B but make it black 🔥🖤
How about an F1 retro livery round for 2026? 🎨 How about an F1 retro livery round for 2026? 🎨 

With new regulations for 2026 set to ensure at least 55% of cars are painted or stickered, we reckon it’s time for F1 to do retro liveries properly.

So, with a combination of dreams and a healthy dose of commercial reality, we’ve got our heads together with @cnkmotorsport to imagine what a retro round could look like. 

What do you reckon? Tell us below 👇
Things you hate to see 😭 Thankfully no one was Things you hate to see 😭

Thankfully no one was behind the wheel when a tree fell on two cars lined up at the finish line of today’s Noosa Hill Climb. Could have been a lot worse…

📸 @claytonstowing
Get a load of these streamlined bad boys! At the Get a load of these streamlined bad boys!

At the top is Bill Bowman’s Caracal D Formula Vee. At the bottom - we actually aren’t sure. Anyone got an ID?

📸 via Glory Days of Racing (Facebook)
Now THAT is a proper throwback livery! (Take note, Now THAT is a proper throwback livery! (Take note, F1 teams). How good’s Thomas Randle’s ride for the Sandown @supercarschampionship round this weekend?
Who likes donuts?? 🍩 Alex Zanardi, Portland 1 Who likes donuts?? 🍩 

Alex Zanardi, Portland 1998
Your São Paulo GP power rankings are in, and Land Your São Paulo GP power rankings are in, and Lando has one hand on the trophy 🇧🇷

Who’s Hot 🔥

+3 🇮🇹 Kimi Antonelli – Finally broke out of his ‘meets expectations’ debut season with his most complete weekend yet to finish P2.

+2 🇳🇱 Max Verstappen – Like a homing pigeon, except home is the podium. No matter where Max starts he finds his way there.

+1 🇬🇧 Lando Norris – Almost has one hand on the WDC trophy. Going to take catastrophic bad luck to lose it from here.

Who’s Not ❄️

-3 🇧🇷 Gabriel Bortoleto – Trucked by the home race curse with a shocker of a weekend, crashing out in the sprint and GP.

-2 🇮🇹 Ferrari – Some bad luck involved, but any weekend you come into 2nd and leave in 4th is a disappointment.

-1 🏁 FIA Stewards – We want racing drivers to race, don’t we? Every bloke on the grid would have done the same.

Standings After Round 21 – Who’s Hot 🔥
🇳🇱 12 Max Verstappen
🇬🇧 11 Lando Norris
🇲🇨 10 Charles Leclerc
🇦🇺 8 Oscar Piastri
🇹🇭 6 Alex Albon

Standings After Round 21 – Who’s Not ❄️
🇫🇷 -8 Alpine
🇮🇹 -8 Ferrari
🇬🇧 -7 Aston Martin
🏁 -7 The race itself
🇬🇧 -6 Williams
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
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