‘I WENT A little deep into that corner – ended up in the kitty litter,’ laughs Steve Nichols. I’m sitting in the back seat of a Range Rover Velar, shoulder-to-shoulder with the design maestro behind t

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

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Funny how attitudes can change. Lando Norris was having a go – in a nice way – at Max Verstappen’s blunt criticism of the latest Formula 1 cars. “F1 changes all the time,” chided Norris. “Sometimes it

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My right arm rises to chest height, my forearm and wrist on the diagonal, fingers bent forwards at 45 degrees. I push my elbow forward to simulate rotation; the internationally approved representation