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Winning formula

April 2025

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BBC Top Gear UK

Watchmakers and motorsport have a long standing relationship. But the guard is changing for 2025 F1

- WORDS: RICHARD HOLT

Winning formula

A FEW YEARS BACK, F1 FANS WERE complaining. Smaller, more efficient engines - introduced in 2014 - were not great news for those who remembered when motorsport was so loud it made your organs vibrate.

Now, all negative chat has gone. There is a new billion dollar watch deal, and viewing figures are up as Netflix's

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