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Aston Martin’s Superlative F1-Capable Valkyrie Hypercar

For drivers seeking performance that bridges the Hypercar and F1 segments, Aston Martin's Valkyrie Hypercar fits the bill. Originally unveiled as the AM-RB 001 Concept in 2016, the Valkyrie represented a groundbreaking collaboration between Red Bull Advanced Technologies and Aston Martin.

In creating the AM-RB 001, designer Adrian Newey tamped down a concept he had already tested out with Gran Turismo long-distance endurance racing. Dubbed the Valkyrie in 2017, the AM-RB 001 prototype combined a 6.5-litre Cosworth V12 engine with a supplementary electric motor capable of producing 1,000 brake horsepower (bhp) per ton. As described by Top Gear at the time, "The Valkyrie isn't a road car jacked up on F1 power figures; it's an F1 car with its edges chamfered for the road."

Initially presented as a road-going hypercar, the Valkyrie was expanded with the announcement of a track-only AMR Pro version. The prototype was introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in 2018. As Newey described it, "The road car draws extensively from the knowledge I have gained during my career in Formula One. But the AMR Pro version has allowed me to work beyond the constraints of road legality, or indeed practicality."

In December 2018, Aston Martin showcased the Cosworth engine as a single production piece capable of producing 11,100 rpm and more than 1,000 bhp. With the supplementary e-motor, the vehicle could achieve a max of 1,160bhp and 664 lb-ft of power. The driver inhabited what Top Gear has described as a "tiny teardrop carbon passenger cell" in the center of that sumptuous power.

By the 2019 British Grand Prix weekend, Chris Goodwin, an Aston Martin test driver, was demonstrating the superior performance of the road-going Valkyrie by lapping other competitive drivers while focusing on fine-tuning powertrain performance and handling. Red Bull F1 drivers Max Verstappen and Alex Albon subsequently took the prototype for test rides. As Albon described it, the car didn't have quite the same downforce as an F1 car, "but you still feel the Gs in the corners, and it definitely reacts closer to an F1 car than a normal road car." As for Verstappen, his only comment was that it was "a lot of fun."

In March 2020, the first Valkyrie to actually get tested on roads excelled in its foray on bumpy rural Northamptonshire routes outside the Aston Martin Silverstone facility. In June 2021, five years into the project, the AMR Pro finally debuted with an expanded 40-car production run. Designed to challenge at the Le Mans 24 Hours, the vehicle would have faced racing rulebook issues, so plans to actually race it at the storied endurance event were scrapped.

With the 40 AMR Pro edition vehicles delivered, Aston Martin capped the coupe road version at a production run of 150 and, in August 2021, introduced the 85-run first-generation Valkyrie Spider convertible prototype at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. This innovative $2.75 million vehicle paired a removable carbon fiber roof with dihedral doors, front-hinged and designed to rotate out and up.

Finally, three years beyond the original schedule, customer deliveries of the road Valk commenced in November 2021. Company head Tobias Moers noted at the time that the Valkyrie program had tested the company's engineers to the limit. A March 2023 Top Gear article brought attention to the 1,000kg of downforce in the vehicle, achieved through an under-surface design that includes venturi tunnels. The result is a car with a race-car tight cockpit that appears to "float above the road, perforated by empty spaces. From some angles, you can see straight through it."

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Wiki Garden Gnome

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Garden gnome

Garden gnomes (German: Gartenzwerge, lit. 'garden dwarfs') are lawn ornament figurines of small humanoid creatures known as gnomes. Traditionally, the figurines depict male dwarfs wearing red pointy hats. Typically, gnomes stand between one and two feet (30 and 60 cm). A recent[when?] trend has introduced miniature gnomes of only a few inches in height. Originating as a decoration for the wealthy in Europe, garden gnomes are now prevalent in gardens and lawns throughout the western world, among all social classes, and often regarded as kitsch.

Gnomes

History

In ancient Rome, small stone statues depicting the Greco-Roman fertility god Priapus, also the protector of floors, were frequently placed in Roman gardens. Gnomes as magical creatures were first described during the Renaissance period by Swiss alchemist Paracelsus as "diminutive figures two spans in height who did not like to mix with humans". During this period, stone "grotesques", which were typically garishly painted, 1-metre-tall (3.3 ft) figurines, were commonly placed in the gardens of the wealthy. Among the figures depicted were gobbi (Italian for hunchbacks). In particular, Jacques Callot produced 21 versions of gobbi, which he engraved and printed in 1616.

Pre-twentieth century

By the late 1700s, gnome-like statues made of wood or porcelain called "gnomes" became popular household decorations. The area surrounding town of Brienz in Switzerland was known for their production of wooden house dwarfs. In Germany, these garden figurines became conflated with their traditional stories and superstitions about the "little folk" or dwarfs that they believed helped around the mines and on the farm. The Dresden company Baehr and Maresch had small ceramic statues of dwarfs or "little folk" in stock as early as 1841, and although the claim has been contested, some credit Baehr and Maresch with the first garden dwarfs (German: Gartenzwerge)

Within less than 10 years, statues of dwarfs had spread from the provinces of Saxony and Thuringia across Germany to France and, in 1847, Sir Charles Isham, brought 21 terracotta gnomes manufactured in Germany by Philip Griebel back to Britain where they were called "gnomes" in English and placed in the gardens of Isham's home, Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire. Nicknamed "Lampy", the only gnome of the original batch to survive is on display at Lamport Hall and insured for GB£1 million.

The manufacture of gnomes spread across Germany, with numerous other large and small manufacturers coming in and out of the business, each having its own particular style of design. From around 1860 onwards, many statues were made in Gräfenroda, a town in Thuringia known for its ceramics.

Garden gnomes spread to other countries in Europe in the 1840s and became particularly popular in France and Britain The term "garden gnome" may originate from the term "Gnomen-Figuren" (miniature figurines), used in the original German catalogues.

Twentieth century

Garden gnomes were further popularized when Sir Frank Crisp, the owner of the second largest collection of garden gnomes in the UK opened his Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames estate to the public at least once a week from 1910-1919. It was here where garden enthusiasts and visitors from around the world perhaps saw garden gnomes for the first time.

The reputation of German gnomes declined after World War I, but they became popular again in the 1930s following Disney's animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, when more working-class people were able to purchase them. Tom Major-Ball (father of former British prime minister John Major) was the most notable producer at that time with his company Major's Garden Ornaments.World War II and the years following were also hard on the industry, and most producers gave it up then.

Garden gnomes saw a resurgence in popularity again in the 1970s with the creation of more humorous types of gnomes. In the 1990s travelling gnome and garden gnome pranks became popular and made national news at times, where people steal a garden gnome from an unknowing person's lawn and then send the owner photos of the gnome as a practical joke before returning it.

Twenty-first century

Philip Griebel's descendants are still producing garden gnomes in Germany. As of 2008, there were an estimated 25 million garden gnomes in Germany.

Types of garden gnomes

Garden gnomes are typically male, often bearded, usually wear red phrygian caps and often have pipes. They are often shown pursuing leisurely pastimes such as fishing or napping.

Gnomes may be made from terracotta clay slip (runny clay) poured into molds. This is allowed to set up and the excess emptied from the centre, leaving a clay shell. The gnome is removed from the mold when firm, allowed to dry and then fired in a kiln until hard. Once cooled, the gnome is painted. More modern gnomes are made from resins and similar materials.

Today, many different variations of garden gnomes exist, including humorous ones ranging from the lighthearted biker or barbecuing gnome, to the more dark, such as one stabbed in the back or wearing an executioner's hood.

In popular culture and politics

Gnomes have become controversial in serious gardening circles in the UK, and were for a time banned from the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show, as the organisers claimed that they detract from the garden designs.Gnome enthusiasts accused the organisers of snobbery, as garden gnomes are popular in the gardens of working class and suburban households. The ban was lifted during 2013 to mark the show's centenary.

In the Italian movie The Monster (1994), the main character Loris, played by Roberto Benigni, is rightfully accused of stealing the garden gnome Bashful.

A subplot in the 2001 French movie Amélie revolves around a "travelling" garden gnome.

A two-foot-tall (60 cm) garden gnome with a long, white beard, red conical hat and blue coat is the central figure in Travelocity's Roaming Gnome advertising campaign which was launched in January 2004.

Gnomeo and Juliet is a 2011 British-American CGI film that is inspired by the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet featuring garden gnomes as the characters. In 2018, its sequel, Sherlock Gnomes, was released.

The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) used garden gnomes, which they called "Coolmen", in their campaign for the 2014 regional elections in Vorarlberg. It was intended as an ironic pun since the SPÖ historically performed poorly in elections in this part of Austria and considered itself to be a political "dwarf". The campaign placed 20,000 Coolmen holding small posters with short slogans along highly frequented roads. The party made a police report after 400 of them went missing, drawing attention from the international media.

The 2010 video game Fable III includes a side mission where a collection of garden gnomes are given magical properties, which the player character must collect throughout the world.

Garden gnomes feature as the driving motivator of Old Man Henderson, whose exploits derailed a Call of Cthulhu variant tabletop roleplaying game, described on the website 1d4chan in 2010. The character Henderson's sole motivation was to "rescue" roughly $40,000 worth of garden gnomes from a local cult, not realizing that he'd given them to charity before the game's starting session.

A 2005 episode of King of the Hill titled "Yard, She Blows!" revolves around Bobby breaking Peggy's newly acquired, and very rare, garden gnome. Hank, hating the gnome, attempts to use the event to eliminate it from the front lawn.

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May 2020 – Towcester to Hulcote, Northamptonshire

Sunday mornings since the lockdown began have taken on a pattern of their own, with breakfast at around 10, usually a poached or boiled egg, with toast while we listed to the radio, followed by grabbing a camera, and a raincoat and heading out for a walk. There are several suitable destinations within a short distance including Hulcote. I’ve been running up the road which used to be the main road to Northampton before the now-busy A43 dual carriageway was built, and is thus known as Northampton Road, now a quiet road into the old town centre. At the top of a long steady hill, the road forks, with one fork going right towards the tiny hamlet of Hulcote. In the early spring the verges are thick with snowdrops along there, and in the summer it’s shaded by mature trees which makes it a very pleasant route for a runner keen to avoid pedestrians and cars alike without roasting in the sun.

The road to the hamlet basically ends there in a large loop so there are very few cars to contend with, though there is a grain store which does attract the odd lorry, and the occasional delivery driver. The grain silo, glimpsed in the background, associated with Home Farm is a modern intrusion that negatively impacts the setting of the conservation area. Further research has told me that the houses there are in a style referred to as “Bricklayer’s Gothic”, all bar the old school and the Manor House. There seems to have been a settement on the site for a very long time, but he “Chapel Village” as it’s sometimes known, in its current form is rather more recent. There is a massive village green, with some splendidly mature oak trees, and around it sit eight cottages in two groups of four. They were built as an estate village for Easton Neston, which I have written about before.

It was the 3rd Earl of Pomfret who had them built, probably between 1800 and 1822, removing some farmhouses to do so, and although I can’t prove it, I have a suspicion that the new buildings may have been divided in two originally. They are pretty spacious if not, and it wasn’t a time when the working classes would have had a lot of space. In 1816 the trustees of the Hulcote Charity Estate set up and supported a school for the poor children of Easton Neston Parish and provided a schoolmaster. The school ran for around 100 years before it closed due to lack of funds and attendance, but the building still stands, alongside a small lodge, and next to what might be the last remaining phone box in Northamptonshire! It’s apparently an early example of a model village, and it owes its cohesion to the fact that it belonged to the Easton Neston estate until very, very recently. It means that the original designs have not been diluted or demolished. Certainly according to the papers I was able to find, almost all of the properties within the conservation area are listed including all the cottages, and the earlier Manor House.

The history of the village prior to this is more than a little obscure, though the Old Ehglish name elements suggest a Saxon settlement. Sadly there is no firm archaeological evidence, though there are some iron age finds, and a quern stone, perhaps prehistoric or Roman, was found but no one thought to write down the location where they had found it so it may or may not be from Hulcote. There is an Iron Age and Roman settlement to the north east of the parish and all srts of small finds gave come to light. Additionally there are some medieval settlement remains on the north side of the village green. Ploughing has brought to light lots of stone-rubble and brick, associated with post-medieval pottery, tiles, glass and bone that match to a map from 1806. There are also two rectangular fishponds, both now dry, which were linked by a shallow ditch. There is another ditch in the woodland on the right the lane coming into the village, and this is thought to be a Saxon ditch, possibly a boundary marker, though it should be noted that the first actual recorded mention of Hulcote is from 1086.

The council report that sets out the details of the listing of the village has this to say about the architecture as a whole: “The western side of the green comprises four, largely identical distinctive detached cottages all in brick. Along the southern edge lie four pairs of cottages broadly similar in appearance to the detached properties but with single storey flanking wings. Pevsner describes these houses as: ��A group of eight very loveable and little funny houses along two sides of the green.’ These buildings are two storeys in height and are built directly onto the road facing the green. Notably these houses are largely unaltered and retain their original plan form, symmetry and original features which are important to their character and appearance individually and as a group.”

Across the way from them is one of the former main entrances to Easton Neston Estate, with two matching listed lodges either side of the road. There were five entrances which doesn’t surprise me because the lodges on Northampton Road include one that is named “Third Lodge”. I think it’s fair to say that the family that built Easton Neston had both delusions of grandeur and cash to splash! The access from Hulcote is now private, with signs to prove it, but does demonstrate Hulcote’s former links with the House and is an important feature of the history and design of the village. Also “a number of footpaths still exist that link Hulcote to the surrounding countryside and settlements. To the north a footpath runs to the site of the former nunnery at Showsley, to the south a footpath connects the village to Easton Neston House, and finally a footpath runs east-west connecting the village to the former railway and Shutlanger respectively”. So maybe another day for those.

Oh, and there are alpacas in the fields by the entrance to Hulcote now, along with two small shaggy ponies of a type that anyone who ever read a Norman Thelwell book will easily recognise. The alapacas even have their names on the gate – the ponies do not appear to!

Just for good measure, I’d like to leave you with a shortened version of the timeline of the town of Towcester, starting in AD 45:

45—Romans build the fortified garrison town of Lactodorum on the junction of Watling Street.

917—‘Tofeceastre’ attacked by an invading Viking Army. Watling Street becomes the border between Saxon Wessex and the Danelaw. The “burh of Towcester” was thought to have been previously fortified by King Alfred of Wessex’s son, King Edward the Elder of Wessex.

1066 or later—Motte and bailey castle constructed on eastern side of Towcester.

1130—Building of Bury Mount.

1170-1200—Late Norman “Transitional” church is built and is the basis of the plan of the present St. Lawrence’s church.

c.1280—Benedict Caetani (also known as Gaetano) was Rector of St. Lawrence’s. Later elected Pope Boniface VIII at Naples on 23rd January 1295.

1470—Edward IV gave 40 square feet of stone from his quarry at Hanley in the forest of Whittelwood for building and repairing the steeple, church and churchyard at Towcester.

1483—Richard III confirmed grant by Edward IV for stone for church. (Baker p.328)

1544—Henry VIII granted bailiffs and inhabitants of Towcester two fairs – October and March.

1551—Church mill recorded (Baker)

1573 June 6th—Storm of rain and hail of 1.5 inches resulted in flooding which brought down six houses. One child drowned. (Baker p.322)

1574—Former Knight Templar’s Mill at dissolution of Hospital of St John of Jerusalem granted to Robert Dudley. Site of Mill not traced.

1575—Plague at Towcester.

1604—Thomas Shephard born in Towcester. He was a puritan preacher who emigrated to America and became the first chaplain of Harvard University.

1608—Plague in Towcester. Thomas Shephard was sent to Foscote to escape it.

1643, February—Prince Rupert plundered Towcester and neighbourhood, then proceeded to Warwickshire.

1643, August—A section of the Royalist Army was quartered at Towcester. The parliamentarian Newport Horse surprised Towcester one night, slew the sentinels and about 30 men, took two colours and twenty prisoners to Newport.

1643, November—Prince Rupert, based at Easton Neston, sent out a proclamation to all the local villages demanding labourers with shovels to fortify the town.

1643, December—Prince Rupert, having made Towcester very strong by constructing water filled ditches, moved to Oxford but left a strong force at Towcester.

1644 Jan 18—Royalists slighted the works at Towcester and abandoned the town to join the army at Oxford.

1646 January—Towcester was head quarters for Colonel Whalley’s Brigade of Horse.

1665—Plague hits Towcester.

1675—The Bell Inn (182 Watling Street) built with stabling at the rear.

1684—Charles II granted Sir William Farmer a weekly Tuesday market and 3 fairs to be held on the Feast of St Lawrence, Shrove Tuesday and the 22nd March.

1695—Thomas Bickerstaff of London, a native of Towcester, gave the 3 almshouses he had erected to the Sponne Charity. The almshouses stood beside the Silverstone Brook, and were demolished in 1970.

1707/8—Fire causes £1057 of damage.

1749 March 25th—Fire at the George Inn – boy with candle accidentally ignited straw and kicked the burning straw into a stable which within a few hours had spread to 36 houses. (Baker p.324)

1781—Jenkinson’s bank started on a site which was still a bank until around three years ago. Jenkinson was a silk merchant, linen draper and woolstapler.

1798—Here are annual horse races,. Easton Neston has very bad roads about it, particularly a considerable one from Northampton, through Towcester and Oxford to Bath.

1799—Authentic data stone on the Post Office building.

1800—Towcester had a theatre with a pit.

1837—Rough stone tramways were laid up the hills to north of Towcester to aid coach travel.

1838—The Towcester Gas Company was formed in 1837 and the town streets were lit by 35 gas lamps.

1851—National School built for £1100, average attendance 150.

1852—A Police Station was built with accommodation for an inspector and two constables. A Magistrates Court was also built.

1854—Cholera epidemic. Occupants of the dilapidated houses around the churchyard suffered greatly.

c.1855—Thomas Ridgway, thought to be the tea magnate, offered to build houses for the poor if Lord Pomfret would provide the land. The first houses were built in Brackley Road. Later another 12 houses were built forming Queens terrace, followed by 14 houses forming Albert Terrace. Ridgway erected about 50 houses at a cost of £6-7000. Rents were 5% of outlay. Improved health, comfort and social conditions for the poor.

c.1856—A sewer was built at cost of £400 at the south end of town to improve sanitary conditions after the cholera outbreak.

1864—Lady Palmerston cuts the first turf of the East and West Junction Railway at Towcester in August 1864.

1865 The Town Hall & Corn exchange was built at a cost of £3600.

1866—The Blisworth to Towcester railway line was opened and Towcester Station built. A large number of Roman coins were found during the construction.

1873—Towcester to Stratford on Avon railway line was opened.

1876—First horse race at Towcester, established by Her Imperial Majesty, The Empress of Austria, who was staying at Easton Neston.

1878—Maria Sophie of Bavaria, the last Queen of Naples (and Sisi’s sister) stayed at Park View.

1887—Ceremony of Cutting the First Sod of the Stratford-on-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway by Sir Thomas Fermor Hesketh, Bart.

1890—Towcester Grammar School reopened on the Brackley Road with 33 boys under headmaster Mr John Wetherell M.A..

1898—The town was supplied with water from Dockwell Mill reservoir. The Churchyard was enlarged by half an acre by Earl of Pomfret.

1901—Fire destroys Phipps and Co brewery at Towcester.

1921—The Hesketh Boot and Shoe Factory in Vernon Road was destroyed by fire.

1923—Towcester Grammar School destroyed by fire.

1925—Mains electricity laid in Towcester in about 1925.

1931—The Workhouse, built in 1836, was closed and taken into the ownership of Northamptonshire County Council.

1937—The Police Station was rebuilt.

1939—Towcester Cinema First Night on the 5th December 1939.

1948—Silverstone Aerodrome opened for motor racing.

1952—Mr Law was making sports shoes for Roger Bannister, Cheshire, All Blacks and Springboks.

1958—Passenger services from Towcester Railway Station ceased.

1965—Freight services from Towcester Railway Station ceased.

1984—Towcester Cinema was demolished after standing empty since 1974.

1987—The Towcester bypass (A43) opens.

2001—Grandstand at Towcester Racecourse (built in 1929) demolished.

2005—Contents of Easton Neston house auctioned by Sotheby’s.

2005—Lord Hesketh sold Easton Neston house and estate for £15 million to Russian fashion millionaire Leon Max.

2009—The 30 acre water meadow between Bury Mount and the River Tove was acquired by South Northamptonshire Council and the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation. It contains an important Iron Age ritual burial site of the Catuvellauni Tribe.

2009—Work starts on the restoration of Bury Mount (Towcester Castle) as part of the Moat Lane Regeneration Project.

2014, June 2014—Towcester Mill Brewery and Tap Room established at Towcester water mill.

Travel 2020 – Towcester to Hulcote May 2020 - Towcester to Hulcote, Northamptonshire Sunday mornings since the lockdown began have taken on a pattern of their own, with breakfast at around 10, usually a poached or boiled egg, with toast while we listed to the radio, followed by grabbing a camera, and a raincoat and heading out for a walk.

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