Sacha Meakin

Sacha Meakin is an eclectic writer, media producer, and unapologetic car enthusiast whose passions span culture, storytelling, and machines that make too much noise. Growing up with Top Gear on in the background - first as an earnest magazine show, later as the BBC's loudest cultural export - he learned early on that cars are never just cars: they're stories, characters, and occasionally flaming wrecks. Sacha's career in media production has taken him through writing, creative projects, and...See more

Sacha Meakin is an eclectic writer, media producer, and unapologetic car enthusiast whose passions span culture, storytelling, and machines that make too much noise. Growing up with Top Gear on in the background - first as an earnest magazine show, later as the BBC's loudest cultural export - he learned early on that cars are never just cars: they're stories, characters, and occasionally flaming wrecks. Sacha's career in media production has taken him through writing, creative projects, and digital media, giving him a front-row seat to the way entertainment is built, sold, and sometimes broken by its own success. His eclectic background shows in his work: he's as comfortable writing about race and identity as he is about torque curves and caravan fires. A believer that humour and honesty are the best lubricants for heavy subjects, Sacha writes with equal parts affection and scepticism for the people and institutions he studies. Why Top Gear Blew Clarkson's Gasket - And Why He Blew Them Off is his deep-dive into one of Britain's strangest and most successful cultural phenomena - told with the eye of a producer, the ear of a fan, and the wit of someone who knows that laughter and melancholy often share the same lane. When he's not writing, Sacha can usually be found hunting down obscure motoring trivia, tinkering with projects that combine media and storytelling, or arguing about whether the V8 burble really does sound better than a turbo whistle. See less