My pearls of wisdom have seen the light in The Mail on Sunday, Tatler Asia, Evo, Wanadoo, Option Auto in France, Auto Week and GTO in Holland, Auto Panorama in Russia and even Quatro Rodas in Brazil. I’m also European Editor of European Car magazine in the US.
I started with Haymarket Publications in 1998, editing the national racing section of Motorsport News, writing features and reporting on the junior careers of Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen and spending weekends in driving rain at all of Europe’s most glamorous locations.
Every weekend it was another centre of culture, be it Darlington, Norfolk, Sandbach, Dresden or Belgium. Still, we managed to have fun.
A move to IPC in 1999 led to a place on the shortlist for the Newcomer of the Year Award at Britain’s biggest magazine house and a career test driving and reporting on international motorsport.
I covered everything from Formula One to ice racing and also edited my first major supplement. From there I took editorial control of website F1i.com and travelled the world covering the Grand Prix, interviewing the drivers and contributing to Bernie Ecclestone’s F1 Magazine.
This took me to Australia, Malaysia, Brazil, Japan and a good few others in between on someone else’s credit card, but the internet gravy train ran dry in 2002 and we had to bid a tearful farewell to boss Bertrand Gachot. We had to do that via webcam, though, as he had technically moved to Spain by then.
A year providing website copy, ghostwriting services, press releases and other material for Jenson Button, Colin McRae and others followed. But the desire to drive ridiculously fast cars brought me to a freelance career and now I combine road and track tests with interviews, features and corporate copywriting.
Now I focus on road and track testing, long-distance driving adventures and anything that doesn’t really sound like work at all. I work with the likes of Ferrari, Pagani and Lamborghini as well as the BMW, Mercedes and Jaguar.
Germany’s tuning scene is also one of my playgrounds, with the likes of 9ff, Hartge, Carlsson, Schnitzer and Ruf getting a regular knock on the door and a British journalist burning their tyres to the cords.
So if you want something spectacular, or simply prestigious and expensive, or even something standard and ongoing, get in touch for more information.