The speaker at the Bourne Motor Racing Club evening on 8th June will be the well known Motoring Journalist and Historian Simon Taylor.

Simon has been immersed in motor sport for nearly 50 years joining the weekly magazine Autosport from university, and was its editor by the age of 23. He moved on to become a publisher for Haymarket Magazines, devising and launching other car magazines such as What Car? and Classic & Sports Car, and went on to be the Company’s Managing Director and eventually its Chairman.

Simon was BBC Radio’s voice of motor racing for more than 20 years, reporting on Formula 1 from all over the world, and his TV commentary and presentation work includes being a member of ITV’s F1 team. He is the author of several books on car and motor racing history, and appeared in the movie Rush playing himself and describing the James Hunt/Niki Lauda battles during the 1976 F1 season.

Simon has a small collection of classic cars, and competes in historic motor sport with his ex Stirling Moss 1950 HWM sports-racing car known as the Stovebolt Special.