The fastest front-wheel-drive car ever to conquer Pikes Peak.

"If the record is broken after 100 or 150 years of measurements, you would have probably expected it to be broken by a tenth of a degree and not suddenly by two degrees or three degrees," he added. But when a relatively rare weather system such as this week's heat dome comes around in a warming climate, the margin of record can be huge.

McLaren has been on a roll in Qatar lately after Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris finished second and third in the Grand Prix. Not only that, the Woking outfit inches closer to Aston Martin in the Constructors' standings as it smashed a record on Sunday's race.

The hottest June day record has been smashed again after the Met Office extended its rare red weather warning for extreme heat in London and the South East.A provisional temperature of 36.7 was