Go back as recently as the 1990s, and stately homes across the country played host to some of the biggest rallies, cars and drivers the sport has ever seen. I remember as a young boy standing in Tatton Park, waiting…

I’ve been busy working on some new projects recently, so haven’t updated my blog as often as I would have liked. So while I work on bringing you some exciting motoring news, here’s a video from the archives. The video is…

I remember the first time I watched The Sweeney. Other children my age were watching cartoons, but nothing captured my imagination more than watching Jack Regan screeching round the streets of London in a Mk3 Cortina GXL. Sat with my Dad,…

As one of the world’s leading rally television programme makers, Special Stage is constantly leading the way in providing fans with an insight into the high octane, adrenaline-filled world of UK rallying. While we were filming for the last round of the…

If like me motoring is your life, you’ll no doubt be an avid consumer of motoring products and accessories as well as cars and consumables. In fact, even if you’re not a petrolhead, there are tonnes of ‘must have’ gadgets…

If a traditional business card is defined as a vehicle to communicate key details, then Paul asks why can’t you use an actual vehicle to communicate those details? Here was born the concept of the ‘Business Car(d)’, an original idea that has…

I have to be honest and tell you that this year’s BTRDA mixed surface challenge is something Producer Wayne (Special Stage) and myself have talked about for years. Obviously in the intervening year between the British Rally Championship ending and…

If you’re the sort of Googler who prefers to read than to watch; if you’re on dial-up in deepest darkest Wales for example, here’s a summary of what I think of the new Skoda Fabia. As you’ll have seen from…

The price of fuel may have gone down recently, but you’d still snap my arm off if I offered you a free tank of go-go juice, wouldn’t you? Well, I’m keeping my arms out of reach just in case, because…

Wow, what a start to 2015 it’s been for the Special Stage Team! After a long winter break, and following our “This is Rallying” special Extra show on Motors TV, the BTRDA Rally Series is almost back on your screens. Round…