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A couple of months ago, the 2016 F1 World Champion, Nico Rosberg, announced on his Instagram account a road car featuring an F1 hybrid engine and technology. Since then, the car has generated significant hype among petrolheads, and the wait was over as the Project One was revealed in all its glory on September 14th at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt. Mercedes says that this is the "first Formula One" car to be approved for road use, and it has the technology a

We’ll start with a disclaimer: Formula 1 has a long and rich history, full of heritage, drama, danger, cutting-edge technology, and men with enormous legacies. So when we titled this article “A Brief Look into the History of Formula 1,” we really meant a brief look. So let’s dive in. Formula 1 can trace its roots back to the earliest days of motor racing, but it wasn’t until 1946 that it became an officially sanctioned category of motorsport. From the outset, it was intended

McLaren’s £866,000, 903 bhp hybrid hypercar that promises to be the most involving car to drive on road and track. That’s a big claim. The heart is the familiar 3.8-liter V8 bi-turbo that serves duty in the 12C and 650S, but with larger turbos to produce 727 bhp and 531 lb-ft. The ‘leccy bit pushes out 176 bhp and 192 lb ft (twice the KERS system on a 2013 F1 car), and handily fills in the torque hole left by turbo lag. It all drives exclusively to the rear wheels via McLaren

For our first pick, we wanted to choose something special and something that broke the laws of physics, and we decided on the Bugatti Veyron. The Bugatti Veyron is a car that many thought impossible to create, with even Top Gear mocking Volkswagen for being foolish when it was first announced. Volkswagen announced that they'd make the car well over 1000 HP, which was supposed to be the most powerful road-legal car ever produced. Bugatti named the Veyron in honor of the racing