Mercedes-AMG GT 63 review: Taking on the 911 Turbo Life&Style The previous AMG GT was a bit of a brute. With steroid-pumped styling, a bombastic V8 up front and rear-wheel drive, it embodied AMG at its most ‘OMG’: a muscle car that took a wrong turn off Detroit’s Eight Mile Drive and somehow ended up in Stuttgart. The new GT is, well… more of a [...]
Boost for UK industry as another F1 team heads to ‘motorsport valley’ Sport Business Sauber will become the next Formula 1 team to open a base in the UK’s “motorsport valley” as Audi prepares to enter the sport in 2026. The Swiss-based team has struggled to recruit top engineering talent from other teams due to its base on the continent. They’ll join the likes of Mercedes, Red Bull and [...]
Mercedes-Benz G-Class review: The sensible status symbol SUV Life&Style The Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen has preened and flexed in so many rap videos, my teenage son assumed the ‘G’ stood for ‘Gangster’. Imagine his disappointment, then, when I dutifully pointed out the name is a contraction of the German word Geländewagen – literally translated as ‘go-anywhere car’. Were his eyes not already glazing over at this [...]
Tesla’s brand value plummeted in 2024 as Musk splits opinion January 22, 2025 Tesla‘s brand value plummeted in 2024, paving the way for Toyota to claim the top spot as the global auto market’s most valuable brand. According to research from the consulting firm Brand Finance, the US EV maker’s brand value dropped 26 per cent last year to $43bn (£35bn), the second straight year it has fallen. [...]
McLaren winning Constructors’ Championship shifts tectonic plates of F1 December 10, 2024 At first glance Formula 1 might look like a billionaire boys’ club, where the cash reserves are endless and the supplies infinite. And to a large extent, that’s true. But the motorsport series has a budget cap now which was introduced to level the playing field, to allow challenger teams to take on the might [...]
Russell: Bully Verstappen wanted to put me on my f****** head in the wall December 5, 2024 Formula 1 driver George Russell has unleashed a brutal attack on world champion Max Verstappen after the Dutchman moaned about the Brit. Verstappen said he lost all respect for George Russell after an incident in Qatar but the Mercedes driver hit back, saying the Dutchman had “bullied” people for years and promised to purposely crash [...]
Is it written in the F1 stars for Hamilton at Ferrari? October 28, 2024 As Lewis Hamilton prepares for life at Ferrari, the Prancing Horses are beginning to find some Formula 1 form. “I feel incredibly fortunate, after achieving things with Mercedes that I could only have dreamed of as a kid, that I now have the chance to fulfil another childhood dream. Driving in Ferrari red.” Those were [...]
If McLaren end Red Bull and Mercedes duopoly, it’s great for F1 October 26, 2024 In just one corner at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Lando Norris looked to have blown his shot at winning a first ever Formula 1 world championship, despite there being another five races between now and the coronation in Abu Dhabi. Max Verstappen is by no means driving with the confidence he has [...]
Alpine looks to Mercedes as Renault halt F1 engine operations September 30, 2024 Renault will stop making Formula 1 engines from 2026, leaving Alpine on the hunt for a new provider. The French organisation, which first entered Formula 1 in 1977, will close its works engine programme at Viry-Chatillon. It means their sole engine user, Alpine – whose shareholders include Ryan Reynolds, Michael B Jordan, Anthony Joshua and [...]
Sunday Times Rich List sport: Lewis Hamilton, Jim Ratcliffe and Eddie Hearn May 17, 2024 Seven time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has entered the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time in 2024.