Drive a new car every few days, go to a race meeting, ride a bike. Write. Can you imagine getting paid, for something I would have done for free, but didn’t have the heart to tell them? Extraordinary.

A proud moment was being invited to join the Chartered Institute of Journalists. Now I had a proper title for what I was doing!

Road-testing new cars and bikes, technical articles about the racing, all things I loved to do and I was now earning a living doing them!