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The good and the great

4 years ago

Writer:

Andrew Frankel | Ti co-founder

Date:

4 September 2021

There is a danger, if you do this motoring journalism job for too long, that you end up fancying yourself as a bit of dab hand behind the wheel. It stands to reason: driving fast is your passion, you’ve done a vast amount of it over the years, you’ve been trusted with million quid hypercars and you’ve not only driven thousands of miles on race tracks, many of those miles have been race miles. In racing cars. You must be good, surely?

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