I love them. And right now, you are probably doing one of two things. Either nodding in agreement, your mind bringing forth a vision of a warm Mediterranean evening, the paving under foot still warm from the heat of the day, the final rays of sunshine slipping below the horizon and cicadas beginning to chirp. […]
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Chasing the Mirage – 2 Years On
It’s March 28th 2017, northern France. The Citroen rental car is giving it’s best possible performance, but we don’t seem to be catching them up. For more than an hour now, we’ve been heading across country, no Peage, simply those lovely French D Roads, often tree lined, always well surfaced, a driver’s heaven. Or at […]
A Blind Man Driver – Aston Martin Track Instruction That Taught Me Some Lessons
This is a true story and probably one of my most inspiration days of work ever. It made me realise that disability is what you make of it and that humans are actually really complicated things. It was also truly humbling. A day spent on track coaching blind drivers in supercars. I learned an awful […]
I want to hear your stories about fear and failure
Some people who are friends of mine simply love to analyse the shit out of pretty much everything. They’re scared of failure of course, who isn’t? They love to be organised and planned out. And indeed, nobody wants to fail. None of us set out to fail. You can analyse things forever and worry until […]
How to Sell Cars as a Salesman In Today’s Digital Marketplace
A lot has changed since I left behind the retail car sales industry. And yet so many things are still the same. I consider myself to have been truly fortunate to have been mentored by people who valued long term customer relationships over a fast buck, single sale. You may well imagine that in these […]
What can you learn from Sebastian Loeb, even if you’re not interested in driving?
In my view, Sebastien Loeb is probably the world’s greatest competition driver. Certainly of the last three decades, quite possibly ever. So what? You’re not really into cars and driving and you’re about to stop reading? Give this one a little more time and read a little further. What can you learn from Loeb? After […]
Build Your Tribe and Become Invincible and Impervious – Just Like Radiohead
In 2007, Radiohead had a problem. Like many bands, they were facing the global issue of music piracy. The traditional model of music creation, distribution and monetisation was broken. So they decided to fix it by giving away their new album, In Rainbows, for free. That was more than ten years ago now. And Radiohead […]
On Track As An Instructor – The Biggest Save Of My Life
In track instructing on public days, there are several mantras that any track instructor has to learn very quickly to survive, remain safe and still deliver a worthwhile driving experience to the clients. I won’t go into all of them here, instead I will pick just two elements. The Shit Drivers and The ‘Good’ Drivers […]
Got a new Tablet as a gift? Here’s Six Ebooks You Should be Reading
Digital Tablets are wonderful devices for consuming content with. And together with YouTube and Vimeo, Ebooks have become one of the favourite uses of my iPad. I still recall the day I saw the iPad for the first time and like the iPhone before it, I knew it was going to change things forever. Both […]
A Real World Guide to Driving the Streets of Paris
If you love motorsport, track driving or those lovely European autoroutes and alpine passes, then you may well think that the centre of Paris is somewhere to avoid like the plague. In fact, driving in Paris is something that everyone should experience at least once in their lives, even if it’s only from the passenger […]
The Police TPAC Driving Skill – Tactical Pursuit And Containment
Traffic Police. Just blokes driving about in the latest kit trying to nab you? Or a branch of the police tasked with looking at and dealing with the carnage of other people’s stupidity while trying to catch the nasty little Chavs we all hate hanging around car parks? More than four years ago, I spend […]
UPDATED – The Porsche 996 Turbo – Why They’re Good Value and Why They’ll Never Be Truly Collectable
In Porsche collecting circles, right now even a few months seems like an eternity. I originally wrote this article in 2011. In March 2016, I updated it to reflect the changes in attitudes towards the Porsche 996 Turbo. Buyers had realised that the engine was indeed pretty bulletproof and the cars were rising. I wrote […]
Ten Essential Tools I Can’t Live Without In Content Creation and One Reason Why They Won’t Help
What are the most essential tools I use, every day, when producing and creative content? It’s a question I am often asked, so here’s my overview on what works for me and how you can save a lot of money if you’re starting out blogging, shooting photographs or simply creating content for work or for […]
Why People Need Help To Buy Into Environmental Change Instead of Being Taxed Into It
The latest Paris riots as I write this in late 2018 are a terrible affront on normal society. I generally have a high regard for the French attitude to authority. And I am amazed that President Macron hasn’t seen this coming. The world is changing and with it, society’s willingness to have punitive and disconnected […]
Supply and Demand – the Needless Suffering of the Supercar Driving Experience Industry
The Supercar Driving Experience industry is in pain and quite possibly dying in the UK. It’s an industry I worked in as an instructor for more that a decade and so it saddens me deeply to be writing this post. I have a great affection for the industry, the great people within it and the […]
Want to Write? Find Writers To Help Your Style
Whether you aspire to be a better writer, or you simply enjoy reading a well written book, blog post or magazine feature, you will know that all writers have a style that develops over time. It’s ever evolving and it’s the thing that dictates whether you like a writer or not. So what makes a […]
A Few Hours in Bruges
Many people travelling from the UK to Europe and back arrive via the Hull – Zeebrugge ferry connection. Of course, the first thing you wish to do after an overnight ferry is to hit the road and get some miles behind you as you head south to the sunshine. However, if you’re able to pause […]
The Morning After the Storm
I have this weird clock inside my head that wakes me up. It’s annoying sometimes, especially on those days when, the evening before, you say to yourself, “I’m going to have a lazy lie in tomorrow morning.” It almost never happens. I’ve given up on the idea these days and just roll with it. A […]
Omaha Beach – Les Braves
This must have been an utterly terrifying place on earth to be on the dawn of 6th June 1944. Omaha Beach and that whole area of the French coastline is covered with the scars of warfare. as I stood on the same beach in 2018, utterly open and without the tiniest scrap of cover, it […]
Memories of Los Angeles
As I’m sitting watching the international news right now, with California burning in the heat and wind of the dry climate, I was reminded of my visit there in 2015. I travelled there to meet up with Ron Chapple of Aerial Film Works. Ron’s one of the stellar aerial filming specialists in the world and […]
Aged 18 Years – Remembrance
Today, it seems appropriate to share this picture. It was the image that hit me the hardest from my work at Thiepval two years ago when I covered the Centenary of the start of The Battle of The Somme. Just 48 hours earlier, I had wished one of my sons a happy 18th Birthday before […]