My week in cars

The excellent article on Leyton House F1 [The team that fired Adrian Newey, March] brought back memories. I was their insurance broker at the time along with many other F1 teams and their principals.

I guess the matter is proven by now: I get a big kick out of writing Autocar columns. I’ve written one every week since 19 February 1992 – 34 years ago this week. And unless the editor says something

Since my first column for Motor Sport last month, life has been a case of being buried in the Brundle Motorsport workshop, making cars work (in theory). But there is light at the end of the tunnel; I

IN MY JOB as a freelance photographer, I’d been on the 2012 press launch of the L405 Range Rover in Morocco, where ‘Mr Land Rover’, Roger Crathorne, had brought over a couple of original 1970 Velar pr

WE HAVEN’T EVEN sat down and Will Pembroke is already infecting us with his enthusiasm. He is in his office at Wilton House, the Wiltshire stately home that, as William Alexander Sidney Herbert, 18th

THERE’S CLEARLY a love for Gordon Murray and his obsession with lightweight and fit-for-purpose cars among Octane writers and readers alike. There has also been a bit of coverage of the first hybrid c