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Goodwood Festival of Speed
It all started with an Atom. It always does. The miracle that spawned a monster. Draw a line through each modern sports car’s lineage and you’ll end up here; under the sweeping bonnet of the Aston Martin Atom, where the automotive equivalent of the Big Bang took place in 1939. The Aston Martin Atom –…
You’ve got to hand it to McLaren, they know how to celebrate a half-century. Not only are they releasing a Can-Am inspired 12C GT Edition, but the good-looking line up you see before you will be flaring its McLaren-shaped nostrils at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this summer. Shiny racing visions, old and new, will be showcased together…
A friend once said to me: “Don’t you find it peculiar that we’re most in love with someone when we know them the least?” Long-term relationships are not our forte. We share an addiction to the frisson of falling in love but tend to avoid the ensuing technicalities. However, he did get me thinking. The…