After an inglorious stint in the City convinced him that he could handle cars better than he handled money, Andrew joined Autocar many years ago as a junior tester. Since then he has become one of the industry’s senior figures. Editor of Motor Sport for five years, he now runs our road test section.
McLaren's 720S has raised the bar, but how high can the bar go? I have a pair of sunglasses that have, over time, proven themselves to be quite an effective…
Not just another Porsche – Andrew Frankel drives the latest Porsche 911 GT3 I love the symbiotic relationship that exists between Porsche’s purest sports cars and its growing number of…
Aston Martin has chosen the location for its new plant Next year and for the first time since Gilbern faded from sight in the early 1970s, a car manufacturer of…
The FIA World Endurance Championship has revamped its Balance of Performance rules What is your view of Balance of Performance? A blessing? A necessary evil or a curse? The latest…
With the opening race in the books, Andrew Frankel asks whether the new rules have done the trick First the good news: it looks like this year there will be…
The testing in Barcelona is probably not going anything like this So there they are, gathered in Barcelona, immaculate teams, immaculate trucks, glassy buildings and data engineers by the hundred…
In the latest dieselgate twist, Ferdinand Piëch and VW lock horns As the scandal now known as dieselgate lurches from Greek Tragedy to Whitehall Farce and back again, we have…
So after half a day, 16 safety cars, seven leaders from six different manufacturers and enough tension to last several seasons, the Bathurst 12 Hours fell to the Maranello Motorsport…
Andrew Frankel explains why Bathurst is so special – from the Mountain If you were to sit down and design the motor racing facility of everyone’s dreams, your imagination would need to…
How one of Aston Martin's most iconic modern cars came to be, via Jaguar You may know the story of the Jaguar that was turned into a Porsche and went…
In Ferrari's 70th year, Andrew Frankel turns nostalgic Seventy years ago a well-known team manager decided to build his own cars. Actually, he’d made up his mind many years earlier,…
A hometown hero, South Africa's biggest ever sporting crowd and a star-studded grid to match. Andrew Frankel looks back on the 1967 Formula 1 season starter, held at Kyalami
