I’m not a natural gambler and gave up on the lottery a long time ago, but there’s one competition I do like to play every now and then and that’s the supercar and sports car draws at Best Of The Best. Now some cynical types might think that the prizes aren’t real, but if you’re a regular on the Pistonheads forum you might have heard of member Alun Rowe’s amazing bit of luck. Alun entered the recent sports car competition and bought five tickets at £3 a go. A few weeks later he got an unexpected call (you can listen to it here) telling him that he’d won first prize and could choose from four different cars or take £25k in cash. Great news for Alun, less so for me – I’d entered the same competition and also bought five tickets, but obviously my spot-the-ball guesses weren’t close enough! Alun posted up the good news onto...


