How to drive, with Steve Sutcliffe

So every fortnight Steve will take a single subject and explain precisely how to do it to the very best of your ability. Topics covered will include everything from driving in the wet to why and how you should left-foot brake.

As for our choice of author, there is simply no one better qualified for the job. Steve has been testing cars, week in, week out, for over 35 years. He started on WhatCar? in the 1980s, graduated to the road test desk of Autocar, became its road test editor and then its enormously successful editor. He’s been freelance for 20 years now, filling his time with regular contributions to Evo, Octane and Auto Express as well as the Sunday Times and Guardian newspapers.

Steve is also a vastly accomplished track driver, blessed with preternatural car control. He has raced everywhere from the TVR Tuscan Challenge to the British Touring Car Championship, and in numerous 24-hour races. Perhaps his proudest moment was lapping Silverstone in Jenson Button’s Honda Formula 1 within half a second of the official test driver. In the wet.

We hope you enjoy our new series, that it might help you brush up your existing skills or even teach you some new ones. Finally, if there are any aspects of driving you’re particularly keen to learn about, please do say so in the comments.