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Me and My Motor: James Booth

Tim Booth made his name with the rock band James, clocking up a handful of top 10 hits — including festival stalwart Sit Down. Preferring...
Published 12 August 2018
Me and My Motor: Dee Caffari, round-the-world sailor

Me and My Motor: Dee Caffari

Denise "Dee" Caffari is hardened to the cramped conditions of an ocean-going yacht, having circumnavigated the globe six times. Her boats can...
Published 09 August 2018

Me and My Motor: Steven McRae

With his flame-red hair, Steven McRae is one of the Royal Ballet’s most recognisable principal dancers, and that’s not the only thing that...
Published 01 August 2018
Me and my motor: Lee Child, crime writer

Me and My Motor: Lee Child, crime writer

Lee Child, the bestselling crime writer, began his motoring life, suitably enough, in the back of a police car. “The first car we had as..."
Published 30 July 2018

Me and My Motor: Lewis Hamilton

Whether a racetrack or a public road, there is such a thing as too much time behind the wheel for Lewis Hamilton.
Published 23 July 2018
Roborace chief on prepping for the Goodwood autonomous run and a new kind of race series (video)

Roborace chief on prepping for Goodwood (video)

Ahead of the Robocar's world-first autonomous run at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed, driving.co.uk interviewed Rod Chong.
Published 18 July 2018
Me and My Motor: Olympic hockey champion Shona McCallin

Me and My Motor: hockey champ Shona McCallin

Despite being a PE staple for generations of children, hockey has lagged behind other sports in terms of television coverage. But that changed...
Published 17 July 2018

Me and My Motor: Midge Ure

Like a lot of Sixties children, Ure was in awe of all things American, and the big, albeit British Zephyr fuelled his dreams of owning a Buick...
Published 03 July 2018

Me and My Motor: David Steel

You don't need a flashy new motor to turn heads, says David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party, but it helps.
Published 28 June 2018

Me and My Motor: Antony Beevor

It is easy to picture Sir Antony Beevor, the army officer turned historian and multimillion-selling author, at the controls of a Chieftain tank.
Published 26 June 2018
Me and My Motor: Adrian Chiles, radio and TV presenter

Me and My Motor: Adrian Chiles

“Why do I need a racing car? My main priority is the hi-fi,” says Adrian Chiles of his BMW 520d.
Published 13 June 2018
Ellie Norman, Formula One’s first female executive: I ran the grid girls off the F1 track

Interview: I ran the grid girls off the F1 track

Formula One oozes machismo. The roaring engines. The fast cars. And, of course, the infamous “grid girls”. Hang on, though: they were banished...
Published 10 June 2018