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.
What do you think of Concours d’Elegance? I ask because while through my day job testing road cars and sitting on the Car of the Year jury I get to…
The secret is out. Ish. Jaguar has released the first picture of a new car and so the endless process to tease every possible column inch of coverage commences, a…
I have just returned from Spa after a weekend of impossible privilege in the F1 Paddock Club at the Belgian Grand Prix at the invitation of Mercedes-Benz. As it’s been…
Written in 2013... The last Grand Prix I attended was at Silverstone in 2003. It was an epic race, enlivened by Neil Horan’s potentially suicidal track invasion, the best victory…
I fear I may have been taking my own advice a little too seriously. Almost exactly a year ago in this very slot I wrote about driving three Fiat 500s…
Having been far from these climes for the last three weeks, it’s entirely possible you have known for longer than me that a temporary export bar has been placed upon…
I see reports in the press promising that TVRs will be back on sale by 2015. I note the man who now chairs the company cheerfully admits he has no…
In 1987 I was one of a few thousand people to cram into the Albert Hall to see a young auctioneer called Robert Brooks sell a Bugatti. In his last…
Just over a dozen years ago I briefly crossed over to the dark side. Which in motoring journalist jargon means I started working for a car company. It wasn’t something…
I see that in a rare moment of apparent indecision, Bernie Ecclestone has been doing a spot of back-pedalling since suggesting last week that he might be minded to buy…
The most telling moment of the British Grand Prix was not when Lewis Hamilton’s left rear Pirelli exploded, turning itself into what looked for most of his in-lap like some…
For all that was good about it, and there was more about what I love about Le Mans in 2013 than any I can recall – constantly changing weather, unbelievable…
