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After a month after the Monterey cars week, all the maths are double checked and done. Five auction houses moved $755.6 million in three days at Monterey this year, beating a record that had stood since 2022 by roughly $284 million. Almost every headline out of the week called it a boom. Underneath it, cars from the 1960s covered by the Hagerty Price Guide sold for a median of 6.2% below condition-appropriate value. Take out the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe and that is what the decade did. The 1950s and 1960s supplied more than a third of everything consigned, and they were the only two decades to finish below book. Cars built from the 1980s through the 2020s carried median premiums of 31 to 38%.One lot inside it deserves its own asterisk. RM Sotheby’s sold a 2026 Ferrari Luce Tailor Made sedan for $40,000,000 as a charity lot. That single car is more than 5% of the week, and whether a given tally counts it explains most of the disagreement between published totals.
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix of F1 in Baku ended with George Russell in Mercedes taking a dramatic victory for Mercedes, holding off Max Verstappen (Red Bull) by just 0.196 seconds. Isack Hadjar finished third for Red Bull, followed by Charles Leclerc in Ferrari and Kimi Antonelli, the other Mercedes driver who started from the sixteenth position of the grid. Sixth final position for the other Ferrari driver, Hamilton. The race featured two Safety Car periods and several crashes, including incidents involving Lando Norris (McLaren), Alex Albon and both Alpine cars. Oscar Piastri with McLaren seemed to fight for the podium until almost the end when he lost control of the car ending the race out of the points zone.
Christian Horner, the former Red Bull team principal, is reportedly opening the door to a Ferrari conversation when speculation about Fred Vasseur’s future with the Maranello team has bubbled up in the F1 paddock. Even and especially in Baku whispers refuse to fade away in the wake of a very turbulent period for the Scuderia.
The Ferrari situations could have been altready set for a succession plan to be enacted at Ferrari after this season, in a move that will allow the French 58-year-old manager to return to a lower-profile life and focus on personal priorities. In this case the former Red Bull team principal Horner could be definetely one of the names Ferrari will weight on to pick the final choice.
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for sharing with us these fantastic pictures of his Ferrari BBLM #70 that finished 6th overall at Le Mans, on June 19th and 20th 1982. A special thanks to Sam Smith and Bob DeMart for their contribution. It is an immense privilege watching this car with such a great history... there are pages and pages of news... and Jim says "It is a great handling race car, and still amazes me every time I see it and drive it"...

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