From (lastly) interviewing the infamous Bernie Ecclestone to driving throughout the ‘Severn Bridge’, these are our writers’ highlights from 2020.
Mark Tisshaw
We hope that Autocar has helped offer you loads of gentle aid and delight on this yr of all years. We’ve been producing the journal from our varied properties because the 25 March concern, a course of that, with out boring you with the technicalities, hasn’t been with out its challenges. However neither, it have to be stated, has it been with out reward.
If you’ll enable the indulgence, that is the best area for me to spotlight a number of the unsung heroes of Autocar, those that mix the phrases and footage we produce right into a bodily journal. With out their contribution, there would merely be no Autocar every week; their efforts enable all of the highlights you possibly can learn of right here to be instructed to you.
So take a bow Sami Shah, Kris Culmer and Darren Jones from the manufacturing desk, Sarah Özgul, Rebecca Stevens and Stephen Hopkins from the artwork desk, in addition to image editor Ben Summerell-Youde and common freelance subs Peter ‘Chip’ McSean and Tim Dickson. I do know each one in all you’ll admire their efforts as a lot as I do.
Jim Holder
“Autocar? That’s almost as outdated as I’m, isn’t it?”
From that second on, 30 seconds into introducing myself out of the blue on his cellphone, I knew that Bernie Ecclestone, a mere 89 to our 125, was at all times going to be one step forward.
I’ve at all times beloved Components 1 and regarded Ecclestone with a combination of awe and outright worry, such is his fame for ball-breaking deal-making and old-school opinions.
And whereas all these negatives could also be true (his finest reply was once I requested how he offers with enemies, to which he replied, “I take them flowers… Depart them by the grave”), he was partaking, open, humorous and severe as required, candidly answering all the things from his ideas on fashionable F1 as to whether he’s a hands-on granddad.
Rattling it, I appreciated him. I’d been invited for an hour and stayed for 2. He stated I’d be welcome again. I nonetheless can’t work out if I’ve known as him proper or if I’m a sucker – and that, I believe, is precisely how Bernie likes it.
Steve Cropley
