4 h. ago Moza FSR2 Formula Wheel review – impressive performance and build quality for F1 sim racers

The Moza FSR2 Formula Wheel features exceptional build quality and loads of buttons, but the lack of SimHub support is a shame.

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3 d. ago Police hunt Silverstone F1 car steering wheel thief after 20 British GP arrests made

A total of 34 crimes were reported with 20 arrests made at Silverstone over the British Grand Prix weekend, while Northamptonshire Police want to speak with a man in relation to the theft of a classic F1 car steering wheel

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8 d. ago Adès, Leith, Marsey: Orchestral Works album review – an impressive collection marks a productive association

Hallé Orchestra/Adès(Hallé)This brings together new works of his own and by composers he admires that Thomas Adès has conducted at Bridgewater Hall during his residency with the HalléSince 2023 Thomas Adès has been artist-in-residence with the Hallé Orchestra. He has featured as composer, conductor and pianist in his appearances with the orchestra, and all his concerts have included new or nearly new works, both his own and by composers he admires. As the residency comes to an end, this collection brings together pieces he has conducted in Manchester; there are four by Adès himself, alongside William Marsey’s Man With Limp Wrist and Oliver Leith’s Cartoon Sun.Of the four pieces by Adès, only one is substantial. Aquifer, which he wrote last year for Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, is a densely packed 17-minute movement, which contains enough ideas to power a symphony at least twice as long, before being brought to a halt by the most common-or-garden of cadence...

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2 w. ago It’s also a ‘new era’ for share prices in the defence sector

Nato’s spending splurge has made Babcock hot – a sign fundamental change in dull income defence stocks is happening It’s a miracle. Babcock International, the defence contractor with a specialism in kitting out the UK’s nuclear submarines, has emerged from the depths. After about half a decade in which the story was mostly about cost overruns, acquisition indigestion, accounting woes, pension deficits and too much debt, Babcock is suddenly back in the FTSE 100 index and is a hot stock. The share price has more than doubled this year.Of course it’s not really a miracle because the performance is easily explained. A fix-the-basics strategy was started in 2020 under ex-Cobham boss David Lockwood and has worked. The last of the badly performing major contracts – to build first-of-a-kind Type 31 frigates for the Royal Navy – is no longer spitting out provisions. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Apple AirPods pro 2’s noise cancelling is still so impressive, I couldn’t hear myself type this review

The 2nd generation may not look wildly different to the OGs, but there come with better battery life and extra features

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3 w. ago F1 the Movie review – spectacular macho melodrama handles Brad Pitt with panache

The cherubic sixtysomething stars as a supercool old-school driver returning 30 years after a near-fatal crash to break all the rules of Formula One racingWith that amused-cowpoke face of his squashed into his safety helmet, making his sixtysomething cherubic chops bulge in towards his nose, Brad Pitt gets behind the wheel in this outrageously cheesy but fiercely and extravagantly shot Formula One melodrama. Along with a lot of enjoyable hokum about the old guy mentoring the rookie hothead (a plot it broadly shares with Pixar’s 2006 adventure Cars), F1 the Movie gives you the corporate sheen, real-life race footage with Brad as the star in an unreasonably priced car, the tech fetish of the cars themselves (almost making you forget how amazingly ugly they are) with brand names speckling every square inch of every surface, the simulation graphics writ large, and the bizarre occult spectacle of motor racing itself.This is a movie which (like Barbie) has been licensed by the brand, with...

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3 w. ago BREAKING: Truth behind Donald Trump rumour as US President tipped to drive McLaren F1 car

Yes, you read that right... reports from France have suggested US President Donald Trump could be set to get behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car in Texas next week

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3 w. ago Truth behind Donald Trump rumour as US President tipped to drive McLaren F1 car

Yes, you read that right... reports from France have suggested US President Donald Trump could be set to get behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car in Texas next week

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