Got to say, the Ferrai does look pretty. Nose particularly. This gen if car is a definite improvement visually.

Just want to say congratulations to Red Bull powertrains. Running a new engine on track for the first time is a huge achievement. Have a few old friends there - well done guys.

Picked up new Leyton House steering wheel from 'Dave the Trimmer' this morning. We made a replacement for the one that was stolen at Silverstone last year. If anyone has a lead on the original please contact Silverstone, Martin Stretton Racing, the police or myself. It should be with the car...

Broken Veil series 1 was magnificent (listen if you haven't already), Tond a wonderfully creepy ghost story. These two guys have a magic chemistry, a sigular story telling ability and deserve your attention.

Photos I've seen of the new cars - man they look so much better.

Finally getting stuff down from the atic at home post Nov 2024 flood. Happy to find I still have Ali version setter of the 2001 Merc FK piston I drew in 2015 as well as a valve and finger follower. Origonal piston of 2001 was AlBe.

Last photos of 106B for the week! #canonporsche 📸James Ward Films

106B cockpit. Quite a lot of internal lighting needed to get these shots as everything internal is designed to prevent reflected sunlight at dusk and dawn. When JP crashed at Spa in '85 the gear stick pierced his helmet visor... scary stuff. #canonporsche 📸 James Ward Films.

This proved to be a difficult shot to get. Much lining up of car and bodywork with James Ward sweating in the roof space above (it was an extremely hot day + lights etc.). Worth the effort though. 📸James Ward Films.

956-106B engine bay. The flat 6 is the larger capacity motor Richard Lloyd Racing used in the the '86 season (by all accounts what arrived from the factory was something of a lottery). The team unusually used smaller than standard K26 turbos for added mid range (STD was K27). 📸 James Ward Films.

Porsche 956-106B from our photoshoot at Junction 11 Studios last year. 📸James Ward Films. More to follow!

I loved this concept. Something similar my idle brain thought about in 2002/3ish but being an engine guy had no idea if it could work in paractice. Gains look obvious but as I understand it not so good in yaw. Remember thinking 'YES! Something really different and brave!' 10 out of 10 Williams.

This post got me thinking about the parallels between painting minatures and my day job, F1, Indycar restoration. It may seem obscure but so many of the same rules apply - athetics, attention to the smallest mech detail, and when you think it's finished, push yourself further to get it to 100%.

#OnThisDay in ’92, at Firebird Raceway near Phoenix, Ayrton Senna tested a Penske #IndyCar in secret, encouraged by then current Penske ace Emerson Fittipaldi. Ayrton was very quick - 0.5sec faster than Emmo - but he decided to continue in #F1 & he never drove an IndyCar again.

As always, I’m so hugely proud to be one tiny musical part of this excellent podcast! If you haven’t listened to series 1 of #BrokenVeil - get on it, if you have, yes IS excellent isn’t it, now you’ve got this one of crimbo special to enjoy! 💗 Please do join the Patreon and help fund series 2!

Listened to this driving through thick, oppressive fog on the way to work this morning. It is absolutely superb. If you like ghost stories, I would highly recommend it.

Remembering Colin Chapman, who died #OnThisDay in ’82, aged 54. Under his direction Team Lotus won 7 #F1 constructors’ titles, 6 drivers’ titles & the #Indy500. The aces he ran are numerous, but here’s a wonderful Rainer Schlegelmilch pic of him with the greatest of them all.

There is a lot to unpack in this post...

Not before time...

Finishing up design for Bikesport Developments Yamaha R9 throttle. Similar concept to the last gen R1 but with a very different sensor.

Humbled is a much overused word these days. Struggling to feeling anything but, having been given the chance to own a pushrod car by RP. PC23 01 was PT's car at Indy and won races with him and Al Jr. Notably Long Beach. A big part of my family history. Guess I get 8 of my piston blanks back also!

Realise I have been a bit quiet of late - grappling with what should have been a straight forward job that I've made more difficult. Also doing a rewarding bike design job while listening to the excellent LYNCHIAN by @johnhiggs.bsky.social As one would expect, insightful, informative and brilliant.

20 odd years after we worked on Kenny Roberts XM2, Harry and I still have matching team kit. For the record, I don't think I did a terribly good job team KR. The bike was exquisite, but there were things about the V5 that still haunt me.

Been working hard on the new series of this and it’s looking extremely… strange already. All these insane connections. Faint paths. Had no idea it would start looking like this. If we had a cork board of old clippings, there’d be red string everywhere. Exciting…

Last of the PC19 fire up vid's. The 265A is such a crisp sounding motor, more so than it's later derivatives.

Fired up the PC19 on Saturday around 6pm GMT. If you know, you know. (But don't worry if you don't).

This is utterly insane. Fine, let the AI industry in the UK die. That would be a positive. AI is an invention that is unlikely to end well. www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

I would urge anyone remotly interested in motorsport to read this. racer.com/2025/10/01/b...

Had a wonderful day filming for the upcoming REC 106B watch with Peter Stevens. Peter not only designed the iconic Canon livery for the Porsche but was instrumental in the aero program for Richard Lloyd Racing.

Had a happy week going through this superb ex-Toesland CBR600 FX WSS bike. Running it fir the customer at the Sywell Classic tomorrow.

I rebuilt a set of carbs today for the first time since (checks notes...) 2012.

So... a degree of success after an awful lot of messing about. Crank trigger looks good on the scope, triggers spaced as expected but RPM in the HUD looked unstable then disappeared for no apparent reason towards the end of the day. I did manage to log some data. Some head scratching to do #PC27

Some time ago we noticed the front damper cover was no longer sitting flush with the chassis post paint. Darren at MCT produced a very neat internal rib that's pulled it back into shape.

Step 1 of flywheel rig - cam trigger will be step 2. Used Lego as had some at home and 3D printed a mock flywheel with steel tooth inserts.

Ongoing flywheel investigation. The engine calibration defines the angle between the first tooth and TDC Cyl 1 as 65deg. Current guess is the trigger sees the trailing edge of the tooth and acounts for a degree and a half of lag... have drawn a new flywheel but looking into mod options.

Mockup headrest for the #PC27 the actual item will be made in Kevlar. Fits will, some very minor adjustments on trim lines required but overall a very good start.

Great news for Gary and our friends at ADM. www.gb-3.net/news/2025/au...

One of the best battles you will see this DECADE. Fuck yeah. Ovals are GOATed. #IndyCar

August 15, 1976 marks the last victory for an American constructor in #F1. Driver John Watson won at the Austrian Grand Prix for Penske Racing, just one year after the team's star drive Mark Donohue was killed at the same race.

This very rare Nova, spotted & snapped in Earlsfield, London, last night, is a tiny kit car based on a VW Beetle chassis & mechanicals. Designed by Richard Oakes & Phil Sayers in ’71, it features a glassfibre body & a one-piece opening canopy that combines roof & doors.

The offending 10 tooth flywheel. Still formulating plan B but making progress. Note the curvic coupling that mates to the crank via an intermediate crank gear (i.e. crank / gear / flywheel all with curivc's). The expense of reproducing that detail is a bit scary... #PC27

Good progress today but no fire up. The good - engine makes good oil pressure, water system ok, 9th butterfly works. Crank and cam triggers are ok. Work to be done - we have a flywheel with 10 crank trigger teeth and need one with 4. On ballance, learned a lot, reassuring but a way to go.

#OnThisDay in ’86 was run in Hungary the first #F1 GP behind the Iron Curtain. It staged an epic race between Ayrton Senna (Lotus) & Nelson Piquet (Williams), featuring the best overtake of the ’80s. Click to read a #MotorSport column I wrote about it. www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/sin...

I think we've realistically done everything we can prior to a #PC27 fire up attempt mid next week. Will wait until Monday to add methanol, then start cranking for triggers, fuel and oil pressure etc. Nice to see it on umbilicals ready to go... hopefully!

Engine and gearbox oil in, so far no leaks. Heated water system to 70C on the heater rig, again no issues. Finger crossed the same is true tomorrow morning! Voltage fluctuations have 'magically' gone away which is concerning, it seems to be wheel speed sensor related so will keep an eye out. #PC27

LH chassis loom now final fitted. Coolant, engine and GBX oil temps look right for the ambient today. Coolant and GBX oil pressure both read zero, which is encouraging. The PI 5 Star is pulling the voltage about so need to look into that... #PC27