The Racing Point F1 team is set to be renamed as Aston Martin in 2021 after its owner Lawrence Stroll agreed a £182 million deal to buy into the manufacturer. Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free RaceFans revealed last month in conjunction with Autocar that the billionaire was considering buying into the luxury brand whose share price has fallen since it floated on the London stock exchange in 2018. Under the terms of the deal, details of which were published in a filing on the London Stock Exchange on Friday, Racing Point will become the works Aston Martin team in Formula 1 in 2021. A 10-year initial deal has been agreed under which Aston Martin will receive equity in the Silverstone-based team. Aston Martin’s current title sponsorship deal with Red Bull, believed to be worth around $20 million, will end after this season. The manufacturer has agreed a five-year sponsorship deal with Racing Point on similar commercial terms. The technology partnership …
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London Supercar Dealer Sutton Bespoke Builds 800 HP Mustang
American fans of the Ford Mustang have enjoyed a wide range of tuner editions for decades. With the U.K. finally in on the Mustang party, so too come the tuners to add stickers, bolt-on body bits, and of course more horsepower. To that end, London-based Sutton Bespoke now offers the Sutton CS800 Mustang with – you guessed it – 800 horsepower. The company will debut its latest creation at Top Marques Monaco starting April 20th, complete with performance demonstrations to potential customers around Monaco’s legendary Grand Prix circuit. So we have a right-hand drive Ford Mustang getting tuned by a company in London and debuting at Monaco. My how things have changed for the modest pony car from Dearborn. To create this 800-horsepower monster Mustang, Sutton starts with a Stage 2 Whipple supercharger and an upgraded intercooler. New injectors and a larger throttle body help get more air and fuel into the 5.0-liter Coyote V8, while an all-new exhaust system with long tube …
Singapore Post delivers mail by drone
Drones as postmen? A successful trial by SingPost and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) saw a letter and a t-shirt in a package delivered from Lorong Halus to Pulau Ubin by a drone. The 2km trip took about five minutes. SingPost said this is the first time a postal service has used an unmanned aerial vehicle for point-to-point recipient-authenticated mail delivery, Today online reported on Thursday. Postal services in France, Switzerland, Finland and China reportedly have also been exploring drone delivery services. The drone used was built upon the IDA Labs’s Pixhawk Steadidrone platform to meet the new conceptual delivery platform from SingPost. On top of some safety features, it comes with a prototype app designed with security and verification features that ensures the mail reaches its intended recipient. While the focus of the successful flight was to test the drone technology and safety boundaries, the drone was built with the capacity to carry a payload of up …
Hong Kong to add estimated 2,000 quarantine hotel rooms ahead of Christmas holidays
People pose in front of a giant moon-shaped balloon ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong on Sept 20, 2021. (Reuters photo) HONG KONG: Authorities plan to ramp up the number of designated quarantine hotel rooms in the city by 20% ahead of what is expected to be a busy Christmas holiday season, a key industry player has said. Michael Li Hon-shing, executive director of the Federation of Hong Kong Hotel Owners, said the government was already in touch with sector representatives, and estimated the number of rooms would grow from 10,000 to 12,000 from Dec 1. The 36 hotels currently approved to serve as coronavirus quarantine facilities - a list that is updated every three months - were booked at 84% capacity from September to November, according to the Food and Health Bureau. "We expect more residents will come back [to Hong Kong] during and after the Christmas holiday, and the government can estimate the number by checking flight bookings with the airlines," Li told a radio …
Planning To Buy A TVS Apache RR 310 BTO? Here Are The Pros And Cons
The 2021 TVS Apache RR 310 was launched in India a few months ago. It is priced at ₹ 2.59 lakh (ex-showroom), for the base variant. The Apache RR 310 was launched by TVS in late 2017 and since then, TVS has given its flagship motorcycle constant updates over the last 3-4 years. This time around, TVS has introduced a new, industry-first, factory built-to-order (BTO) system, where customers can specify their RR 310 as per their needs and requirements via the TVS ARIVE app or the online configurator. The BTO also allows the customers to track the journey of their bikes in real-time and finally get it delivered from their nearest TVS dealership. TVS will offer only 100 customised units per month, although, it said it will offer 150 units for the first couple of months. Also Read: 2021 TVS Apache RR 310 BTO Review With more advanced equipment on offer, the TVS Apache RR 310 BTO just pushes the envelope of a race-ready machine further, making it feel more premium than ever, and …
Mercedes-Benz Dealers In Australia File Lawsuit Over The Brand’s New Retail Model
Mercedes-Benz car dealers in Australia have launched a $650 million legal action against the company over the German carmaker's new sales model. way it sells cars in Australia. It's the same model which was also introduced in India through which Mercedes is effectively taking ownership of its stock, cutting dealers out of the new-car sales process and introducing a "no bargain" price across its network. The brand says the move will give buyers more choice of vehicle models and make the sales process more transparent. Also Read: Planning To Buy The 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class? Here Are 5 Pros And Cons More than 80 per cent of Mercedes dealers in Australia have signed up to the legal action. However, dealers in Australia argue the plan will decimate the local industry, which employs more than 60,000 people. More than 80 per cent of Mercedes dealers have signed up to the legal action, accusing the German carmaker of forceful implementation. Dealers are also upset that …
A crusade to end grading in high schools
8 Scott Looney, the head of the Hawken School near Cleveland and a leader in private education, had become disenchanted. The majority of American high schools, even the best money could buy, he believed, were delivering a misguided education. They treated students as passive receptacles and downplayed the importance of attributes such as collaboration and the many types of learning taking place outside classrooms. They reduced the high school experience of students with college aspirations to a formulaic pursuit of success in a narrow set of advanced courses that blocked many from exploring their passions. Looney wanted to create a new secondary-school model, not just at Hawken and other privileged private schools, but also for the public school system that educated the vast majority of the nation's students. "The industrial production model of putting kids on an assembly line when they're 4 and moving them through at the …
Next-Gen Range Rover Plug-In Hybrid Spied Lapping The Nurburgring
A new Land Rover Range Rover will debut next Tuesday, October 26. The large luxury SUV is a bit old by industry standards, though the automaker will give the popular model a complete makeover for the 2022 model year. However, before the cover comes off, Land Rover is continuing testing the model, including the plug-in hybrid variant, which was recently spotted lapping the Nurburgring. The automaker is already teasing the new SUV, though you wouldn’t know it by looking at the test vehicle. It’s still completely covered in camouflage, though the front bumper coverings are a tad different, revealing a lower grille opening with horizontal bars. It looks indistinguishable from the non-hybrid variant, though the mandatory hybrid stickers and charging port give away its powertrain. The SUV will ride on the brand’s new MLA platform, eventually underpinning several Land Rover models. Gallery: Land Rover Range Rover Plug-In Hybrid Spy Photos 24 Photos …
‘Dune’ Wages an All-Out Attack on the Senses – and Wins
Click here to read the full article. It’s hard to be a messiah. Even before he recognizes that this is what he is, the young Paul Atreides of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune , played by Timothée Chalamet , lets the grief of expectation seep into his body, down to the drowsed slump of his shoulders and the toneless, contemplative wariness of his voice. The actor’s charm is kept in check; his latent vulnerabilities are in overdrive. Paul is the heir to House Atreides, whose fief is the oceanic planet of Caladan, a stony, rainy, tumultuous world, limited in its purview and power. An unusual home for a family said to descend from the ancient Greeks — but it sure helps to explain why everyone seems a little down in the dumps. In another kind of movie, this quality would maybe seem less worthy of remark. A moody teen. So what? But Dune , as Villeneuve has ambitiously sought to tell it, is above all a story of empire, to which Chalamet’s performance lends an interesting …