The smart set’s talking about... Racy YouTuber’s aristo secret

SKIP university, ditch the nine-tofive job — and become messianic about your hobby. That’s the formula for the tyre- screeching success of supercar YouTuber and podcaster Sam Fane, who flicked the ignition on Seen Through Glass, his YouTube channel, after heeding his father’s advice to ‘pursue a passion’.

Fane, 33, modestly tells me: ‘ It wasn’t supposed to be a career.’

Yet he ended up with more than 500,000 subscribers, filmed videos with F1 champion Sebastian Vettel, roared around the world in a Porsche 911 — with a glamorous Bulgarian, Viktoria Kirkova, as passenger — and kicked a new lease of life into his 20-year-old Ferrari by fuelling it with a mix of synthetics and bio-waste.

He and Viktoria, a PR manager for industrial giant INEOS, are now married and have just celebrated the birth of a daughter, Mia.

Anything else on the agenda? The House of Lords, perhaps: Sam is in line to succeed his uncle, the Earl of Westmorland.