Gentlemen Drivers

15/10/2026

14/10/2026

• His Airness, Michael Jordan! 🏀✨ Which is your favorite?

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13/10/2026

• 34 years ago, Giorgetto Giugiaro launched a ship for dry land 🚢 The year was 1992, five hundred years after the discovery of America and Italdesign was celebrating Christopher Columbus in its own way: with an ultra-luxury van nearly six meters long, billed as “a sailing ship for dry land.”

They called it the Columbus and it remains one of the boldest concepts ever to land at the Turin Motor Show.

Beneath the carbon-fiber body, bolted to a steel box-section chassis, sits a 5.0-liter BMW V12 making roughly 295 hp and 450 Nm. It’s mounted amidships, transversely, and drives all four wheels. The steering works on the rear axle too, with the back wheels turning up to 15° at low speed to tame a 3.82-meter wheelbase.

Then there’s the driving position, the wildest part of all: the driver sits dead center, in a raised bubble above the V12, a year before the McLaren F1 made that layout famous. Behind, seven seats in a 1+2+2+2 arrangement, expandable to nine, or removable entirely to turn the whole thing into a cargo hauler. Every passenger gets their own TV monitor with a VHS player, and the headliner glows with fiber optics, years before Rolls-Royce turned it into a catalog luxury.

Too big, too expensive, too far ahead of its time: the Columbus stayed a one-off. And that’s exactly why it’s a legend today. 🏁

Van of the future or pure madness? Tell me in the comments!

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12/10/2026

• Two V12 Icons. Two Delivery-Mileage Unicorns. One Extraordinary Encounter. 🐎✨ The Ferrari Monza SP1 and the Ferrari F12 TDF: two of Maranello’s most desirable modern masterpieces, captured together in one exceptional shoot.

But the real story lies in the details.

The Ferrari F12 TDF, one of only 799 ever produced, is finished in breathtaking Rosso Dino and features something truly extraordinary: an original interior upholstered in genuine Hermès leather, supplied directly by Ferrari from the factory.

An exceptionally rare specification, so special that the original Hermès leather is even explicitly mentioned on the factory option badge in the trunk.

A remarkable marriage of Ferrari’s legendary V12 engineering and the craftsmanship of one of the world’s most prestigious luxury houses.

And then comes the ultimate collector’s detail: DELIVERY MILEAGE.

A Ferrari F12tdf in this extraordinary configuration, preserved virtually untouched since leaving Maranello. A unicorn among unicorns. 🦄

Alongside it, the spectacular Ferrari Monza SP1, another delivery-mileage masterpiece, representing Ferrari’s uncompromising interpretation of its legendary open-cockpit racing barchettas.

Two extraordinary Ferraris. Virtually untouched. Preserved for the next generation.

At Clasiqs, delivery-mileage unicorns are no longer the exception. They’re becoming our signature.

Icons are forever!

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11/10/2026

• October 11, 1928 - October 11, 2026: today, Alfonso de Portago would have turned 98 🏁 At 17, he flew a plane under a bridge for a $500 bet. It was the first sign that this kid would never lift his foot off the throttle!

Born in London and raised in Biarritz, Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton was the 11th Marquess of Portago and a Grandee of Spain.

He was a jockey, fencer, bobsledder, aviator and then racing driver, and Enzo Ferrari described him as “a kind of magnificent hippy.”

He came to racing late, in 1953, after meeting Luigi Chinetti, and in just four seasons he wrote pages that still make us dream.

In 1956 he won the Tour de France Automobile in a Ferrari 250 GT alongside his friend Ed Nelson, leaving Stirling Moss’s Mercedes SL behind. That same year he stood on the podium at the British Grand Prix, finishing second in a shared Ferrari D50 with Peter Collins. At Nassau he won the Governor’s Cup twice, and in one of those races he was tracking the car ahead by mere inches at 150 mph. In Cuba in 1957, he led the race ahead of Fangio and Moss until his car gave out.

Then came May 12, 1957.

On the straight at Guidizzolo, during the Mille Miglia, a tire burst on his Ferrari 335 S at around 150 mph. Nine spectators lost their lives along with Portago and Nelson and with them the most legendary race in Italy came to an end forever.

He lived 28 years as if he had a hundred.

Happy birthday!

If you could spend a day with him, which car would you ask him to drive?

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10/10/2026

• A classic. An icon. A legend. 🏆 Simply Jeremy Clarkson!

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08/10/2026

• Before the legend, there was love. ❤️ Kerpen. A boy shoving everyone else off the track, a woman watching him. That’s how the greatest legend in F1 began.

Fast forward to Adelaide, 13 November 1994. A 25 year old in a Benetton B194, powered by the Ford Zetec-R, wins the title by a single point: 92 to 91. One point between myth and regret.

But the toughest laps were never on track. They had a swing where they’d sit and talk, and he didn’t always open up, because he wanted to shield her from his own worries. She stayed anyway. Always. And to this day, when their song comes on in the car, Paula Abdul’s “Rush Rush,” she cries quietly.

“My heart beats for him when he wins. And when he loses.”

Away from the helmet, he was a different man. First to arrive and last to leave every party, always ready to throw a friend into the pool. And among the fan mail, a girl named Jutta kept writing so often that “Come on, Jutta” became one of his catchphrases.

Then came 1 August 1995: a civil ceremony in Kerpen, and four days later, the church wedding in Königswinter. That same year he won nine races in the Benetton B195-Renault and took his second title. But he had already crossed the most important finish line: her heart.

In 2005, Michael said he loved her just as he did on the first day. “During all the time I was racing, she was my guardian angel.”

For their tenth anniversary, he gave her a ranch in Texas, where she raised her horses. He was never a big horse lover, but he shared her passion, because when two souls are that close, they share their dreams too. And after retiring, he wanted to give her back the time she had given to his racing.

No wonder Sabine Kehm calls them “such a perfect couple.” And still are.

“Michael always protected us, and now we are protecting Michael.”

No yellow flags. Seven world titles, a love with zero retirements.

Titles are won on track. Love is won by staying!

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07/10/2026

• Which weapon do you choose? 🚀 Lancia Delta S4, Renault 5 Turbo, Audi Sport Quattro or Peugeot 205 T16

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06/10/2026

• Scuderia Ferrari Starfighter 🚀 The Italian Air Force presented this Ferrari-liveried Lockheed F-104G Starfighter to Ferrari in 1989.

The decommissioned aircraft was painted to commemorate the 1981 ‘race’ between Gilles Villeneuve’s 126 CK and a Starfighter at Istrana military airbase.

Earth against sky. Piston against turbojet. One man, one car, and a kind of courage that knows no limits.

Today that aircraft is far more than a jet in a special livery. It is the story of how courage became speed, and how speed became legend.

Where the road ends, the sky begins!

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