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.
Are you, like me, old enough to remember when Ferrari was just a three-model company, and when the launch of a new one was an almost mythically rare occasion? Well…
Formula 1 teams really don’t like selling off their cars. I can remember once being shown around a Williams warehouse stacked to the rafters with old F1 cars, some 20…
Although no one would be so indiscreet or disloyal to say so, if it turned out that the Queen was beside herself with grief at the loss of her husband…
It has taken a while, but Mercedes-AMG has committed to start deliveries of its Project One hypercar this year. Or just ‘One’. Officially the concept was the ‘Project One’, the…
With crowds to be allowed back from May, club racing could finally start to recover from Covid – but the future is uncertain for some
The name. I don’t like the name. Moderna. It sounds like someone trying to say the name of an Italian city in a silly accent. And a vaccine. Think about…
The participation of Ferrari at Le Mans started in 1949 when Ferrari the company was but two years old, though Ferrari the man was already in his fifties. But it…
Sometimes a car company launches a new car whose significance goes far beyond its price and position in the range. In effect it resets the company. Volkswagen did this last…
I have never known it happen before without the company concerned going to the wall, but on Monday Lotus announced it would, during the course of this year, cease production…
There is no doubt about it that, for good or ill, 2021 will be year in which electrification stopped being a subject more talked about than acted upon and became…
We should be grateful for the last 1000km race ever to be held for prototype sports cars at the old Nürburgring in 1983 because it was also the only one…
Alex Zanardi is a nominee for this year's Motor Sport Hall of Fame. Andrew Frankel can't think of another candidate who has shown us more courage or indomitable human spirit
