Ricci’s garage

When I was a child, my parents repeatedly told me there was no favourite between myself and my brother. Since I’ve become a parent however, I realise that statement isn’t entirely accurate. The role o

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

When I was 19, I was carrying out my nightly duty of taking my then girlfriend’s dog for a summer evening’s stroll along a certain Warwickshire high street. I happened on a Rosso Corsa Ferrari Testaro

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

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

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