Adam Hay-Nicholls

London

Metro's F1 columnist and car/travel/luxury writer for various inc. Air Mail and The Sunday Times. Author of some books. I drive expensive cars and call it work.

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PURPLE REIGN

6 days ago | adamhaynicholls.substack.com | Adam Hay-Nicholls

There’s something of the night about the Rolls-Royce Black Badge Spectre. It’s the kind of car you could get up to no good in under the cover of darkness. My £400,000 example looks custom-designed to exit a Miami nightclub in the most menacing and outré manner, cloaked as it is in Vapour Violet, a shade I could’ve imagined Prince designing an entire touring wardrobe around. I’m surprised they didn’t call it Purple Rain. There have been two major step changes by Rolls-Royce in recent years.
Norris wary as lurking Verstappen prepares to pounce

1 week ago | msn.com | Adam Hay-Nicholls

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McLaren on top but Norris is still wary of Verstappen in F1 title race

1 week ago | metro.co.uk | Adam Hay-Nicholls

Lando Norris managed to get his title campaign back on track in Monaco, and the championship rolls straight on into Spain this weekend. Just three points separate the McLaren duo of Norris and Oscar Piastri. And this is where things are about to get rather tricky for the constructors' champions.
MISSION TO MARS

1 week ago | adamhaynicholls.substack.com | Adam Hay-Nicholls

(This article appears in the current issue of the Blackbird Watch Manual)It’s a destination that has long tantalised the imagination and inspired storytellers from H.G. Wells to Sir Ridley Scott. Welcome to Mars; up to 250 million miles from Earth, 13,000 miles in circumference, colder than the Antarctic, highly toxic upon exposure and – as far as we know – totally uninhabited.
Plenty of horsepower as F1 stars enjoy working from home

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Adam Hay-Nicholls

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Plenty of horsepower as F1 stars enjoy working from home

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Adam Hay-Nicholls

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Monaco toy story is all good fun but keeping it clean isn't child's play

2 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Adam Hay-Nicholls

You can tell the Monaco Grand Prix is essentially a work from home situation for the drivers, the vast majority of whom live in the Mediterranean tax haven. Just look at the car park. Whereas normally F1 stars commute in whatever company cars their teams dictate, here those who haven't walked from their nearby apartments, or cycled, have arrived in their latest and proudest boys toys.
Is Subaru turning me into a lesbian?

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Adam Hay-Nicholls

I was recently lent the latest Subaru Forester to test drive, and I enjoyed its sturdiness, its space and the frugality of its 2.0 hybrid engine. But as my mileage progressed over the course of a week’s bombing around the back roads of north Norfolk, I started to have a hankering for a nose ring, a tattoo of interlocking female glyphs, and to dye my hair pink and blue and wear dungarees. I put on a k.d. lang playlist, drove home, and watched Angelina Jolie in Gia.
GRAND DESIGNS, GARAGE EDITION

1 month ago | adamhaynicholls.substack.com | Adam Hay-Nicholls

This week we turn our attention to UK garage sensations. No, not the gods of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s 2-step scene, like Craig David and the So Solid Crew. I’m talking bricks and mortar edifices for storing, protecting and showing off one’s automotive assets. They could be underground too, or they could be cathedrals with roller-shutter doors. Uffizis for vehicular masterpieces. Some, as we’ve discovered, are designed with singularity of purpose: to be the ultimate man cave.
Shark tanks, crocodile lagoons, laser defences, and a subterranean shooting gallery - nothing is impossible when making the ultimate garage

1 month ago | countrylife.co.uk | Adam Hay-Nicholls

This week, we turn our attention to UK garage sensations. No, not the gods of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s two-step scene, like Craig David and the So Solid Crew. I’m talking brick-and-mortar edifices for storing, protecting and showing off one’s automotive assets. They could be underground, or they could be cathedrals with roller-shutter doors. Uffizis for vehicular masterpieces. Some, as we’ve discovered, are designed with singularity of purpose: to be the ultimate man cave.

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7 May 25

I've submitted my bets for the next pope. Come on Fridolin Ambongo Besungu and Pierbattista Pizzaballa, you little beauties. No each way offered, sadly.

Adam Hay-Nicholls @AdamHayNicholls

6 May 25

Ireland road trip, day four: Co. laoise #Quadrishamrocklio @RelaisChateaux @AlfaRomeoUK https://t.co/h3Z9EA0Zqi

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5 May 25

Ireland road trip, day three: Co. Tipperary #Quadrishamrocklio @RelaisChateaux @AlfaRomeoUK https://t.co/NIKFcDyri0

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Articles

PURPLE REIGN

Norris wary as lurking Verstappen prepares to pounce

McLaren on top but Norris is still wary of Verstappen in F1 title race

MISSION TO MARS

Plenty of horsepower as F1 stars enjoy working from home

Plenty of horsepower as F1 stars enjoy working from home

Monaco toy story is all good fun but keeping it clean isn't child's play

Is Subaru turning me into a lesbian?

GRAND DESIGNS, GARAGE EDITION

Shark tanks, crocodile lagoons, laser defences, and a subterranean shooting gallery - nothing is impossible when making the ultimate garage

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