ALMOST 22 YEARS ago, a young Alastair Doak left journalism to venture into pastures new in the upper echelons of Mazda’s Australian operations – and he hasn’t looked back since.
Arriving on our shores in the late 1970s as a teen to Sydney, the Scot embarked upon his university studies – first in Canberra pursuing science, before moving into journalism in Melbourne.
Always a car enthusiast, it wasn’t long before Doak was being paid to write about them as a journalist and with a bit of elbow grease he was quickly at the top of his game leading ’s motoring desk as Editor between 1992 and 1999, followed by a stint in the equivalent role at.
