Still on the Vuelio Top 10 Dads List

I must admit I wasn’t going to write this post- as a Brit blowing your own trumpet isn’t something that comes naturally (and then only behind closed doors with the curtains drawn. No wait, not… View Full Post

Shell V-Power Nitro+ Gunk and Corrosion Champion

I’ve spoken to the boffins (they rightly prefer the term scientists however) at Shell before about the added detergents in their Shell V-Power Nitro+ petrol and diesel fuels, as part of my involvement in the… View Full Post

Fuel for thought: 2 months running on Shell V-Power Nitro+

At the start of November I hurtled up the motorway to ProDrives test track to attend a Shell V-Power Nitro+ event to delve a bit deeper into the tech behind the fuel. I learnt a… View Full Post

Shell V Power Nitro+, engine managment systems and fuel detergents

Over the last couple of years I’ve spent more than an average amount of time sitting in laboratories listening to and occasion talking to scientists and other assorted boffins. I’ve done this in a wide… View Full Post

A new name for a new product- Shell V Power Nitro+

A couple of weeks ago I went to the press launch of Shell’s reinvented premium fuel. Shell V Power is technically no more, it has been superceded by Shell V Power Nitro+. It all happened… View Full Post

Corporate social responsibility

With the kerfuffle over tax evasion in general and corporate tax evasion specifically, I thought it would be a nice way to end the year by looking at the Corporate social responsibility policies of some of the… View Full Post

Nürburgring (and possibly the Guinness Book of Records) here I come! #TBTO

I’ve been lucky enough to do some thoroughly entertaining things in cars over the last two years. As part of the Shell Network of Champions I’ve driven Ferrari 458s round Ferraris Fiorano private test track… View Full Post