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This robust, pugnacious aircraft dominated the skies and became the premier carrier-based fighter of the Pacific War

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It’s the last day of summer 2025. The day when the darkness starts to outpace the daylight, temperatures start to inch lower and rainy days become a habit. But the sun is golden nail in the sky, there

A vision of a time 11 years before the M3 opened – and when Ford Prefects, Austin Cambridges and telegraph poles were everyday sights

Jack Harrison and I are barrelling into a storm in a borrowed Corvette, exactly as planned. If anything, the plan is working too well: there’s too much storm. Through the bleariness of a slender rain-

Something is not right. Racing cars are meant to be more difficult to drive than road cars; extra power and performance but less harnessed, so trickier to access and control than with the engineering