Roadtripping

It is, admittedly, a bit of a bucket list destination.  I realised it was 20 years since my first, faltering lap of the Nürburgring in March of this year, and when getting my old Alfa sickeningly sideways, again, I concluded that I’m done with it. Public...

Some pics from last year's 'ring trip in the (now departed) Alfa GTV V6; I didn't quite trust it to get there without drama, so cheated... Old meets new outside the historic paddock... Cold, wet and grey. And slippy... And at...

Back in May 2018 we joined the world famous London to Brighton Mini Run, a convoy of Issigonis’s greatest creations that chugs its way 53-miles southwards from Crystal Palace to the balmy coastal assembly point on Madeira Drive. I’d wanted to do it for...

A couple of years ago I came across the story of Captain Albert Ball; WW1 fighter ace, fellow Morgan pilot and local hero. In conjunction with CBS's XCar channel I did some research, then made a little film telling the story of his life. It was one of our...

It’s for charity. The great excuse reason for getting dolled up and dragging that pristine machine out of the garage on a Sunday morning. The last of the summer warmth clinging to the tarmac. Sunday drivers destined for garden centres somewhere, leaving...

Operation stack. It sounds like a temporary emergency measure but, sadly, it's just the fairly permanent traffic jam on the M20. Getting your car abroad is a pain. Eurotunnel or Ferry, either way, if you want to reach the nearest bit of the continent you're...

The traffic is crackers, hotel prices are criminal and swarms of eagle-eyed gendarmes will quickly dampen your nefarious plans for a cheeky hot-lap ... and yet you only have visit this tiny billionaires' playground just the once to totally understand why a...

Last summer, as regular MotorPunk readers might remember, we embarked on an epic French road trip to rediscover some forgotten historic race venues. Rich argued that if we were going to try and follow in the tyre tacks of motorsport greats, such as Fangio,...

Any Brit with even a passing interest in the great outdoors or PE will have heard of the National Three Peaks Challenge. Nowadays it’s championed by squads of ruddy-faced ramblers with predilections for primary colours and plastic jackets aiming to trudge...