Livery reveal date secured 🔒 As Diagonal client @Cadillac_F1 readies to join the Formula 1 grid in 2026, we helped them announce that they will launch their inaugural livery during the upcoming Super Bowl, one of the largest annual sporting events in the world, on February 8 🏈

The funeral of that great #F1 legend Graham Hill took place at St Albans Abbey #OnThisDay 50 years ago. Half a century later, @RWilliams1947 & I have devoted our latest #AndColossallyThatsHistory podcast episode to Hill’s memory. Click below to listen. https://t.co/adWggyn5c2

Remembering Henri Oreiller, born #OnThisDay 100 years ago. As a skier he won 2 gold medals & a bronze at the ’48 Winter Olympics. Then he tried his hand at motor racing & was fatally injured when his Ferrari flipped at Montlhéry in ’62: he later died at Hôpital Cochin in Paris.

Remembering privateer owner-racer Ken Downing, born #OnThisDay in 1917. He started 2 GPs & - #AnorakFact - his daughter married Paddy McNally, who once ran Allsport, the company that controlled the #F1 Paddock Club. Pic: Downing’s Connaught Type-A at non-championship Chimay, ’52.

It’s just been announced that Haas will be known as Toyota Gazoo Racing Haas from 2026 onwards. When Toyota’s involvement with Haas was somewhat tentatively launched a year ago, I wrote a @Motor_Sport column about it. ICYMI then, click below to read it now. https://t.co/LDPinWG1lL

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#HappyBirthday Raul Boesel, 68. Boesel studied engineering, became a show jumper, then went racing. He did #F1 without great success, but became sports car world champion in ’87, was 3rd in the ’89 #Indy500, 2nd at Le Mans in ’91, & is now a DJ. Pic: Ligier JS21, Zandvoort, ’83.

Remembering François Migault, born in Le Mans #OnThisDay in ’44. He raced 13 #F1 GPs &, in keeping with his birthplace, he drove the 24-hour race 25 times (best: 2nd, ’76). He died (of cancer) in Le Mans too, at 67, in 2012. Pic, taken by Alain Poulain: Rouen ’73, Pygmée #F2 car.

#HappyBirthday Prince Gaetano Starrabba di Giardinelli of Sicily, 93. He did the #TargaFlorio 14 times & the #GiroDiSicilia 5 times. Pic: 12th in a Ferrari 250GTO/64 shared with Clemente Ravetto ahead of the Ferrari 250LM of Cesare Toppetti & Maurizio Grana, Targa Florio, ’65.

Remembering Roberto Mieres, born #OnThisDay 101 years ago. A sporting all-rounder, he played tennis & rugby, rowed, sailed (representing Argentina in the ’60 Olympics) & entered 17 GPs. Pic: on the Monza banking in the ’55 #ItalianGP, in a Maserati 250F, en route to 7th place.

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My team at @DiagonalComms had a very busy November - see our 6-part tweet below👇.

The #F1 world reacted with incredulity to Adrian Newey’s new job title - team principal - but IMHO there was not only method but also logic behind Aston Martin’s apparent madness. Click below to read my brand-new @Motor_Sport column. https://t.co/cEYWdubGss

Behind the noise over Adrian Newey’s new job title lies the real story: Aston Martin has quietly built a structure designed to unleash his genius. @TheBishF1 analyses the developments at Silverstone:

Extraordinary #UKChampionship match last night, in which Mark Allen, a fine player & the 2022 champion (pic), played so negatively that a commentating Stephen Hendry said, “This is a form of #Snooker I don’t understand.” It didn’t work, either: Allen lost 6-1. He needs a rethink.

Remembering Chris Bristow, born #OnThisDay in ’37. Pic: hard at work in a Cooper T51 at Spa in ’60, the #F1 GP in which he’d lose his life, killed when he went off at Malmedy on lap 20. He was 22.

Remembering John Cobb, born #OnThisDay in 1899. Pic: Cobb’s famous & stunning Railton Special, in which he broke the #LandSpeedRecord many times, touching 403mph (649km/h) in ’47. He died in ’52, while attempting to break the #WaterSpeedRecord on Loch Ness.

Today is #WorldAidsDay #WorldAidsDay2025. If you’d like to read a novel whose narrative backdrop is the #HIV/#AIDS crisis of the late ’80s & early ’90s, I wrote one 5 years ago. All proceeds go to charity. Click the link below to buy it. https://t.co/8y2evu1W1F

Remembering Guy Tunmer, born #OnThisDay in ’48. He drove one #F1 GP, Kyalami ’75, in one of 2 Gunston Lotus 72s (pic), the other driven by fellow South African Eddie Keizan. But the 72 was past its prime, the 2 aces in the works Lotuses in the midfield with the Gunston cars.

Kizma and The Last Werewolf is a tale of a giant 7-foot werewolf in Texas. Deputy Sheriff Kizma and Emmitt Hercules hunt him and go on a terrifying adventure that takes them all the way to Mexico. The end has a twist that is certain to surprise you.

Wow! Next weekend’s #AbuDhabiGP is now going to be a real thriller. #QatarGP #F1

#HappyBirthday Mika Salo, 59. Pic: scoring Tyrrell’s final #F1 points - 5th, Monaco, ’97 - coolly delivering on Mike Gascoyne’s bold zero-pitstop strategy, the last in F1 history, hatched out of the realisation that a wet #MonacoGP would be time-limited, not distance-limited.

Remembering Trevor Blokdyk, born #OnThisDay in ’35. A ’50s speedway ace in the UK, he gave it up for cars, starting one #F1 GP, the ’63 #SouthAfricanGP, in a Cooper fitted with a 4-pot Maserati engine (pic). He raced for a bit more then returned to Transvaal & became a farmer.