Campbell
ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, October 2, 2020, I got the phone call from the new owners of Wheels – who took control on that very day – to ‘make Car of the Year go ahead, whatever it takes’.
Prior to that call, we had, for the first time since 1963, resigned ourselves to the glum fact there was not going Car of the Year (COTY) testing within that year. Just as there was no Australian Grand Prix, no Olympics, and no motor shows, we had also made public our plans not to do COTY. There’d be too great a risk of disruptions, last-second cancellation, border closures, or worse.
