Bengaluru

I have seen the new Porsche and don’t worry, it has a petrol engine in the back

On a winding mountain road with nowhere to stop but fortunately my daughter was next to me to take a photo and capture the moment

Mel Brooks is 100 years old today. Remember, they could never make Blazing Saddles today. Because it would have been criticised for being woke.

Evening beach walk

There is no way that Pole lap of Russell’s should be allowed. If he set the fastest time driving past yellow flags and a car in the barrier then he drove too fast past that danger. It’s not a technicality, it’s a safety issue

This 350 year old restaurant is apparently the first place in Europe to sell coffee. I mean go back in a time machine to 1686 and prevent this place from opening and *boom*, all the Starbucks just disappear. I’d watch that movie

Mario Andretti

I just saw a Fisker Ocean being used as a taxi. I can’t imagine anything braver than running an unsupported car as a Parisian taxi but it says something positive that it’s surviving that abuse

Renault 4 rescue vehicle

Am I the only one who takes offence when people use “Muppets” as a derogatory term? There’s nothing wrong with being a Muppet

Evening beach walk

Kimi on Pole at Monaco. Kid’s unstoppable

“Dad, can we watch Pink Floyd live at Pompeii this evening?”. The third and youngest child. My work is done here.

Estuary. Filling up the Mediterranean, one tiny stream at a time

Everything under the sun is in tune, But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

Art. Every evening.

Just beautiful

חתול בר

So much for the quiet Shabbat. Air-raid sirens an hour ago and Hezbollah missiles were shot down off that same beach

No better way to end the week and bring in the weekend. Shabbat Shalom

I had a little chat with EV Powered about the Ferrari Luce. tl;dr - car design is about proportions, surfacing, and details, IN THAT ORDER. Get one wrong and no matter how great the next stages, the car just won't look right. It's the proportions that aren't Ferrari evpowered.co.uk/features/we-...

Can't help feeling that they have really wasted this Lana Del Rey Bond song on a game - it deserved a full-blooded 007 movie credit

This little fella just showed up in my garden this evening looking a little lost. We have a few friendly neighbourhood cats but hadn’t noticed any pregnant ones recently. Wonder if he’ll adopt us

Kimi Antonelli has won more Grand Prix than two world champions; Mike Hawthorn and Phil Hill

In F1 history, 16 drivers have secured as many as four consecutive wins. 15 have been crowned World Champions. The other is Kimi Antonelli. #CanadianGP #F1

Good race. Canada always delivers

Turning a cheap X1/9 model into the Lido that I used to have. Had to work up some of the missing body details with an engraving tool

The packaging of the Fiat X1/9 is a masterpiece of design. Decent sized boots front and rear, the roof stores up front, fuel tank behind one seat and a full-size spare behind the other. All in a really small car and built around mostly standard components from a FWD hatch. It’s pure genius

You may not know the name. But you know the sax. Shine on, Dick Parry

Bask in its glory

My electric gates stopped working. Both the pedestrian gate and the parking gate, neither would work from any of the buttons or devices that are supposed to open them. Took me a while to trace what was wrong. It was because my AppleTV needed an update. Modern life is so unbelievably stupid

Post something from your camera roll that comes up when you search yellow car. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Busy few days around the Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv

Who can guess what I’m doing?

Inordinate number of Fiat and Panda logos projects a weird combination of confidence in brand but lack of confidence over identity. Ideal car for people with a phobia of being asked “cool car, what is it?”

Just got a sneak preview of the Coventry University Transport Design Degree Show. My first time in that building since 1998. Our work was so much more manual but the creativity and variety today is notable. Had many conversations about how AI will affect this profession going forward

10yrs ago today I was in the Negev Desert with Tom Ford for Top Gear magazine, taking the SandCat on an epic adventure for what became this article www.topgear.com/car-news/fut...

This little guy seemed to be upset that it couldn’t find its mother. Wasn’t Particularly scared of me, appeared more to be asking for help but I wasn’t going to take it from where its mother knew she’d left it

C'était un rendez-vous. Mika Mino in Paris

Good race. Shame for LeClerc at the end. But Kimi, first 3 poles all consecutive and converted to victories - that’s a really impressive start to what is going to be a long and successful career. Just when you think that there’s no way the top F1 driver stats & records will ever be beaten

Suddenly noticed I wasn’t getting proper stereo sound out of my old Technics amp. General clean and copious amounts of contact cleaner sprayed into the balance potentiometer and the good clean sound came back. Should be good for another 40 years now.

Alex Zanardi is perhaps the most inspirational sportsperson ever. Total commitment to simply never giving up. Successful motor racing career cut short by a horrific life-changing accident and then an even more successful career in handcycling with multiple Paralympic Gold medals. A tragic end

Nice day for it. The Jeep is a ‘57

1st May 1994. I’ll never forget that day. Smashed the illusion that motor racing wasn’t really dangerous anymore. We glorify the way F1 was but I don’t want to go back to a time when we lost drivers like this

Never stops being special. Never take anything for granted.

Obvs

Going old school until the new coffee machine arrives

Attempted repair on my coffee machine that's not pumping water properly. Nothing obviously wrong or blocked and can't be bothered randomly replacing pumps and valves until it works so I ordered a new one. At least I tried

For no particular reason, my mum's Fiat 850 Coupé. Wish we'd still had this when I learned to drive but there wasn't much left of it by then. Would have loved to have had this as my first car