Ian Bamsey is the world’s leading motorsport technical journalist.
Bamsey has a degree in Town Planning from the University of the South Bank but since he graduated in 1977 he has specialised in motorsport journalism. He worked first for the weekly Motoring News in London as its international racing editor then helped create a new monthly Automobile Sport.
Bamsey has concentrated on the technical side since the eighties, when he wrote a series of car and engine books for the Haynes Publishing Group. The International Race Engine Directory of 1989, now a much sought-after collectors’ item, was the forerunner of Race Engine Technology which came into being in the Summer of 2003.
Professor Gordon Blair
Prof. Gordon P. Blair, CBE, FSAE, FREng, Professor Emeritus, The Queen’s University of Belfast. Prof. Blair is the author of three textbooks on the design and development of two-stroke and four-stroke engines and of over 100 technical papers in the same vein. Prof Blair was formerly the Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of The Queen's University of Belfast. www.profblairandassociates.com
Neil Spalding
Neil Spalding has been involved in racing motorcycles for years, several stints of club racing gave an insight into setting up racing motorcycles. After that, three years of running the European Supermono Cup, a series for prototype single cylinder bikes run alongside World Superbike, started an education in motorcycle design. Along the way he also ran his own British Supersport team. Neil runs Sigma Performance Limited a specialist Ducati workshop and slipper clutch supplier. Neil is the Author of MotoGP Technology, just released by Haynes.
Annie Proffit
Anne Proffit has written about motorsport for over 30 years, using the home base of Long Beach, California. Her area of expertise centers on the open wheel arena. Her affiliation with Race Engine Technology has allowed Anne to learn even more about the fascinating business of race engine design and construction.
Martin D Clark
Born in Colchester, England, Martin moved to the US in 1992 to pursue his interest in US motor sport and particularly NASCAR after being in and around UK oval and Porsche racing since a child. Martin started covering NASCAR for Motoring News upon his arrival in the States and currently writes and shoots for several racing publications in England and Australia covering NASCAR and occasionally Grand Am and the American Le Mans Series.
Ian Wagstaff
Ian Wagstaff began his working life at 'Motor Sport' going on to become press officer at Silverstone in the late 1970s. He subsequently branched out and became one of the country¹s leading writers on the automotive components sector. A past winner of the Pierre Dreyfus award, he currently writes for such as 'Auto Technology' and 'Motorsports Business Magazine' as well as 'Race Engine Technology'. He is the author of The British at Le Mans, which was published in 2006.
Glen Smale
Glen has had a driving passion for all things motoring since a young age. As a freelance journalist, he currently writes for several motor magazines in Britain, Europe, America and South Africa and has been a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers for over 12 years. Glen is the author of two books on sports cars. www.motorresearch.com
David Wood
David Wood is the Senior Consultant at David Wood & Associates. With a career spanning over 40 years in Motorsport and OEM Powertrain engineering, David Wood has worked in all fields of the sport and industry, with periods spent at Ford Motorsport, Austin Rover Motorsport and Cosworth Engineering.
Immediately prior to opening his own engineering consultancy, he spent five years with the major Tier1 engine components supplier, Federal-Mogul Corp., where he was Director, Advanced Powertrain Technology. davidwood@f2s.com
