When one hears the name Niki Lauda, inevitably – for this writer at least – it’s accompanied by images of a slightly-built man with a rodent-like overbite and a permanently-affixed, [ … ]
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Madrid Central’s Low Emission Zone
From our foreign correspondent – well not really, I I just always wanted to say that! I happened to be in Madrid last week, and I do keep a bit [ … ]
Podcast – An Evening of Maintenance OR Darker Than A Swedish Winter
OK, so not the most catchy of episode titles, but this time, we catch up with Mike and Jim in the workshop while they are battling with the Fiesta ST [ … ]
Driven: The Billy Monger Story
Many of you will have seen the recent BBC TV biography, Driven: The Billy Monger Story… (It is available on the iPlayer for a few months.) I was lucky to [ … ]
London To Brighton Veteran Car Run 2018
Some highlights of another spectacular London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. We were in Crawley for the Veteran vehicles coming through, and then followed the route to Brighton to catch [ … ]
Thin Wall Special Ferrari
A special car, by name and by provenance, the Thin Wall Special, a predecessor of the Vanwall cars, kindly brought to the Total Elf HTX Mike Hawthorn Grand Prix of [ … ]
Podcast – The 2018 Sensible Car Shootout
Following on from the fantasy world of Goodwood Revival, Graham brings us back down to earth exploring the £10-20,000 new car market. At the SMMT’s test day, he drives the [ … ]
Lewis Hamilton wins – Valtteri Bottas doesn’t
So what is all the fuss about? Faux-fairness is screaming out of every newspaper headline and media outlet this morning. The fact is that team orders have been a part [ … ]
Podcast – Goodwood Revival – A Jolly Good Weekend
Graham, Mike and Jim have a jolly spiffing weekend at the Goodwood Revival 2018, and speak to lots of people who are also convinced that the clocks have been turned [ … ]
The trials and tribulations of motoring Sur le Continent
Like any responsible motorist, especially a motoring journalist, planning a long trip I prepared my car thoroughly… Intending to drive around 1100 miles to southern France, and back, to visit [ … ]
