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.
It’s not often you go out to dinner and find an ex-González works Ferrari Le Mans car on the guest list too. But that’s what happened last week when I…
The prospect is so tantalising, I will not be alone in wishing it to be true. If the rumours can be relied upon, Ferrari will return to Le Mans in…
Today (Friday) is Michael Schumacher’s 45th birthday and he will start the second half of his forties as he ended the first – deep in an artificially induced coma, his…
The move had been coming for some time but that in no way diminished its audacity when it did. It was this year’s Goodwood Revival and, as ever, part one…
Not all progress is in the right direction. We have watched for years as cars have grown heavier and less responsive and have required ever more powerful engines just to…
Finding myself sitting next to Martin Brundle at an awards ceremony on Sunday, I asked him for his thoughts on F1 in 2014. “From what I’m hearing, I think it…
Recently, and as you will in time be able to read about between the covers of Motor Sport, I was granted an exclusive audience with perhaps the most glittering of…
I recently spent a week in Japan attending the Tokyo Motorshow and, among other less relevant things, driving the new Honda Civic Type-R. And when I explained the mechanics of…
Ever so slowly, a sleeping giant is being woken. The Honda we remember from its halcyon days of the NSX, Type-Rs and Formula 1 may seem a distant memory, but…
Are you any nearer wanting an electric car than you were when the Nissan Leaf was launched three years ago? Me neither. Or at least I’d have said that a…
Christmas is coming fast and Mrs Frankel doesn’t have a clue what to get me. As ever my request for a Lola T70 MkIIIB has fallen on deaf ears so…
It was David Coulthard on the podium that started me thinking. There was Sebastian Vettel enjoying a richly deserved fourth consecutive World Championship but DC appeared far more interested in…
