Translation for anyone else who isn't a car buff: "hot hatches" evidently refers to high-performance hatchback cars. (I'm guessing "clean air" is another car guy secret handshake, but I don't care enough to investigate.)

On topic:

There's a reasonable chance this run of bad luck is nothing but a statistical anomaly and not worth worrying about.

Like flats. When I was young and had a spate of flats on my road bike---three in a two-week period---I conjectured that dark forces might be at work.

But then I had no flats for months---same tires, same bike, same everything.

Conclusion: that's the way the world works. If those flats had occurred in an orderly pattern over time---that's what would have been weird.