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Twenty to One

btcc25-croft-1-200Croft begins not with a corner, but with the boost allocation table. During Saturday’s qualifying session and Qualifying Race, championship leader Ash Sutton will receive additional turbo boost for just one second per lap, and will only be able to activate it above 140km/h. Tom Ingram gets three seconds from 135km/h; Dan Cammish, five from 130. Gordon Shedden, eighth in the standings, and everyone below him can use the boost for 20 seconds from a threshold of 105km/h. The difference becomes even starker in Sunday’s opening race: Sutton gets one boost-enabled lap, Ingram two, Cammish three, while eighth place and below get ten. There is no misprint. The air is being measured out by the teaspoon.

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Mighty Turtle, Stay Alive!

sgt2024-greenbrave-200The life story of Saitama Toyopet’s green warrior - the No. 52 GR Supra GT.

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Horses in the Cylinder, Half a Second in the Tunnel

f1-26-amr26-w17-200Ahead of Zandvoort, two rather different pieces of news arrived from opposite ends of the field. Honda reported that it had finally managed to stuff back into its engine some of the horsepower the RA626H had misplaced over the winter, while Mercedes explained why the car that started the season at the front has suddenly begun receiving its major upgrades later than its rivals.

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Formula 1 2026, Zandvoort: Preview

f1-26-zandvoort-ptiz-200Metaphor-heavy reflections, supplemented by several indices previously unknown to mankind, in an attempt to explain the character of a circuit Formula 1 is visiting for the last time.

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Saved on Wheelbase: McLaren Paid with Floor Area

Mclaren MCL40 2026 Japanese 200Why the short-wheelbase MCL40 initially gained a weight advantage - and then ran head-first into its own geometry. Shut the windows. It is going to get stuffy in here.

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Talking to the Machine

f1-26-Hun-200The old racing-driver habit of talking to the car - assuming such a habit has survived our digital age at all - is gradually acquiring an entirely new meaning. The pity is that the car still does not understand the driver, while the driver is increasingly unsure that he understands the language spoken by the thing whose steering wheel he has spent years turning with relative confidence. And, more to the point, he has no idea what the thing intends to do in the next corner.

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A GT300 Race Engineer’s Theoretical Setup Guide

gainer Z 2026 fuji 200We should begin with a small correction to the way the car itself is described. The GAINER Z is neither a conventional tube-frame silhouette nor a Mother Chassis (MC86). It is an original GTA-GT300 car built around the retained production passenger-cell structure of the Nissan RZ34. At the same time, its suspension, aerodynamics, powertrain installation and most of its racing hardware have either been designed specifically for GT300 or heavily adapted for it.

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Swirl, Wake, and Crack Your Cheeks!

f1-btcc-26-200One Wake, Two Completely Different Races. Who Else Would Think of Comparing Hungaroring and Thruxton?

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BTCC: Thruxton unusual preview

btcc25-thruxton-2-200Using our weighted Turbo Stress Index (TSI) model on a scale from 1 to 5, Thruxton does not emerge as an extreme circuit, but rather as a moderately demanding one with an unusually large contribution from sustained load.

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