The news that Lewis Hamilton was to move to Ferrari for the 2025 season was leaked to an Italian outlet and then quickly picked up in the UK where it rapidly became the biggest “driver transfer” story of the decade. It caught Mercedes and Ferrari flat-footed and both PR machines were apparently unable to address the reports for what seemed like a small eternity before finally confirming them to be true.
There was another leak last month that while not quite as sensational was, in my view, equally important for anyone who cares about the heritage and history of Britain’s engineering past. It
