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F1: Sport or spectacle?

The controversy surrounding the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix looks set to run into the winter break. Is that such a bad thing for the sport, though? There’s already a lot of talk over whether or not Nico Rosberg deserves the

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Drive Tribes is LIVE

The wait is over – Clarkson, Hammond and May’s new online home for motoring content is open, and this is your official invite to ‘play cars’. I’ve been exploring the online content platform for a couple of weeks, building my

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Hot House Clarkson: The Grand Tour VS Top Gear

No new TV series has ever had so much weight on its shoulders. But did the big budget opening episode of The Grand Tour inspire us as it needed to do? Everyone remembers those Monday morning photocopier chats in the

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Winter rallying: 2016 Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship

At a time when normally we’re putting away the rally TV cameras for a well-earned break over the winter months, for the second time myself and the Special Stage team are gearing up for another exciting Motorsport News winter series.

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Local motoring: National profile

Regular visitors to my motoring blog will know that I’m passionate about local motoring. It’s a passion that has led me to host local motoring events, produce films locally, and write a series of columns for a local lifestyle magazine

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Car films: The adventure so far

My #CarFilms journey has been a real adventure so far, and I’ve really enjoyed sharing that adventure with you on this motoring blog, so thank you for all your support. The story spans seven decades, with over 30 reviews, films

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Motoring work

You may have noticed that a lot of my recent motoring media projects have been on behalf of motor trade organisations. It’s no coincidence; it’s an area that I feel has a lot of scope. What I’m talking about is

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Grand Tour: Spectacular

Friday 14th October will go down as one of the best days of my motoring media career, and actually my entire life. I attended Clarkson’s new show, The Grand Tour in the studio audience, and I was blown away. I

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#CarFilms identity crisis

Don’t worry, it’s not me having an identity crisis, but the car I drove for my latest film appears to have had the odd one over the last 26 years. I’m talking about the Ford Escort XR3i – a car

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Meeting a World Rally icon

In 1984, Stig Blomqvist won the World Rally Championship, just as I was making my entrance into the world.  32 years after the original Stig helped to launch Audi’s assault on Group B, and the wider rally story, I caught

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