Malcolm Cracknell
 Malcolm Cracknell blames Michael Cotton for his obsession with sportscar racing. Cotton Senior used to write the most fabulously detailed accounts of the Le Mans 24 Hours for the Standard House group - if you could't be there to see the 512s against the 917s (or whatever the rivalry happened to be), MC would describe the action, hour by hour. Cracknell found F1 just as intriguing - then.
A career as a teacher, and duties as a responsible husband, simultaneously came to an end at the age of 40 -and thus began a roller coaster ride writing about his beloved endurance racing, on the internet. The web allowed as much space as necessary to do justice to any race, and from the 50 minute Privilege GT races, Sportscarworld grew at an alarming rate, largely thanks to the enthusiasm and desire of the rest of the people on this page. Throughout, Cracknell has had the support of his beloved Sue, sharing her life in the Sussex countryside. She has been remarkably tolerant. Ironically, the perception that Sportscarworld was a large, international organisation was its undoing: its domain name was snatched away during Le Mans week in 2000, leaving the Editor mentally wrecked after four plus years of grindingly hard work. A gentleman called Tim Blake came to the rescue - plus many of the site's readers. TotalMotorSport was born in January 2001, and continued to provide the service that readers had become accustomed to. Cracknell's involvement there came to an end in October 2001, but the persistence of a group that wouldn't give up saw a new site born, dailysportscar.com. This is the final incarnation, a sportscar racing website that will fully involve its readers in its development........at least from February 2003, anyway. We've turned a significant corner.....
[Top] Graham Goodwin
 After following Formula One for many years (a tatty model of a Lotus 72 is
regarded by him as a family heirloom!) Graham finally saw the light in 1995
when his then seven year old son persuaded him to visit Le Mans for the first
time, an experience he would describe later as "biblical" (although that may
have been a reference to the rainfall that year!). An avid follower of the British GT Championship and a Lotus Bore, Graham provides editorial back-up for The Editor in Chief (who has to be in bed by 10 most nights) whilst continuing UK race reporting duties. He is also responsible for the marketing aspects of DSC.
[Top] David Lord
 Together with seemingly everyone else from the British motorsport community, hails from Hinckley in Leicestershire. A full time professional motorsport photographer, he has provided some of the most evocative images of British GT racing in recent years. A staunch supporter of the British GT Championship and TVR Tuscan Challenge Dave was bitten by the Le Mans 'bug' in 2001, the monsoon conditions throughout the night never managed to wipe the wide grin from the plucky Midlander's face! Dave has been primarily responsible for the technical work behind the rebirth of dailysportscar after our recent woes. The entire dsc team, and I'm sure all of our readers, are hugely grateful for his efforts.
[Top] David Warnock
David’s involvement with dailysportscar came about because of his desire to try and give something back to the sport and also to help in some small way with the indefatigable enthusiasm shown by the rest of the team. He began his racing in 1989 in a Porsche 911 SC and progressed to winning the British Porsche Supercup title in 1991. He took the British GT2 title in 1996 in a Marcos LM600 and again in 1999 driving a Lister Storm. In the same year he took his own Roock 911 Porsche to Daytona and took the GT2 class victory ahead of the factory Corvettes. In 2001 he teamed up with Mike Jordan and the pair won the Tourist Trophy and the British GT title. He has raced all over the world and has competed in six Le Mans, which he rates as unquestionably the best race on earth. David will be helping with the structure and direction of the dailysportscar site, therefore allowing the guys to do what they are best at – reporting on the best racing on the planet!
[Top] János Wimpffen
 Every organization needs a bearded weird one and János Wimpffen fits the bill. The fifty-year old Seattleite (that's a resident of Seattle - not an orbiting spacecraft) has been a fan of sports car racing since teenage days. While his friends were trying to figure out girls, János was en route to becoming maniacal about sports statistics. A by-product of this process has been that while he has become the foremost repository of sports car racing trivia, it has taken him until nearly middle age to start chasing the opposite sex. János became forever hooked on sports car racing while watching the first live telecast of the 24 Hours of Le Mans to the United States. It was the 1966 edition that was dominated by Ford. "You mean these people are crazy enough to drive around a course all day and night? And, it's not simply a case of one winner like at Indianapolis, but there are a bewildering array of categories? Why, this perfectly suits my own lunacy!" Wimpffen exclaimed. He tried to take the matter one step further by club racing a Triumph TR4 during the early 1970s, but he soon found out that the only thing he had in common with Franz Konrad was that they were all born in Graz, Austria. What Wimpffen did excel in was keeping track of all this, and he also found himself to be a halfway decent writer. Real life intervened and he spent the next two decades fooling around with academia, earning a doctorate, building a career in transportation consultancy--but mostly just fooling around. Wanting to write a definitive history of our beloved branch of the sport, he cast about for support in doing so and was finally able to convince a group of enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest that endurance sports car racing deserved the type of in-depth review that had thus far mostly been reserved for F1. Wimpffen got carried away with the notion and produced a monstrous two-volume 2200 page set called, Time and Two Seats. The book continues to garner acclaim, two years after its publication. Ensconced within its pages are the minutiae of the sport, down to the chassis numbers of many participants (drivers? Ed.) so that generations to come can continue to argue about exactly which Ferrari 512S ran this or that particular race. All this has made János something of a combination between his heroes, Henry Manney, Denis Jenkinson, and Michael Cotton, and that weird guy in the trench coat standing at the end of a train platform. Wimpffen enjoys providing play-by-plays of the races in a style that mixes historical perspective with insight on the actions and strategies of the teams, along with the occasional snide attempts at humor. His background in geography causes him to mix in a bit of travelogue at each new circuit. Although generally amiable and sociable in mixing among the denizens of the paddock, woe is it to any team manager that withholds the chassis number of their latest acquisition from János' ever-present notebook.
[Top] Johannes Gauglica
 Everything was oh so easy growing up in 1970s Austria - one loved Niki Lauda, one hated James Hunt, one was a race fan. A passing fancy for some, it was enough to get an impressionable kid from Vienna hooked on motor racing for life. . But it was not until more than a decade later that Johannes got to see his first sports prototype race. From then on, it was a case of working his way back into the history of the sport whilst picking up as much information as possible about its current affairs. Ultimately, the grand drama of endurance racing, as opposed to the soap opera that is modern F1, captured his imagination. Among all the investigators, researchers, scientists even, Johannes sees himself as a storyteller, a man who will appreciate a sunset over the Dunlop Bridge more than a list of chassis numbers. A civil servant by day, out of hours he has become something of an sportscar racing internet institution . An e-mail to the Editor of a site called SportsCarWorld, and participation in the late lamented Racing-Talk message board got him involved with the colourful group of individuals behind the website that in its present guise is dailysportscar.com. "I follow, and try to support, national and regional racing which sometimes is a frustrating endeavour. But in a sport that changes its complexion every couple of years, what today is a sideshow may be tomorrow's main event." "If I had to suggest an epitaph for myself, it would be 'All he wanted was a DSC T-shirt'."
[Top] Gary Horrocks
 It seems that Gary Horrocks has always been playing with cars. He blames it on his dad, who was, and still is, a car fanatic. A native of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, Gary grew up building model cars, and reading about whatever racing events he could find. Along the way he found heroes who appeared to be bigger than life, like Jimmy Clark and Ronnie Peterson, and shed many a tear when their lives ended. His main interest has been in endurance racing, starting with the Ford GT-40 era. While he considers the IMSA GTP and Group C to be the peak of endurance racing, he also feels that what is happening now in the ALMS and throughout Europe can be considered a renaissance that is as good, if not better, than most other periods in racing. Currently Gary is writing and shooting photos for Insidetrack, and many of his photos have appeared on the Professional Sportscar website. He is associated with Vista Motorsports, and has started on his own as 'rrocks Photography and Media. He lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife and two daughters. In his spare time, away from racing interests and building 1/43 scale racecars, he enjoys listening to and collecting music and being involved in his family interests of sports and traveling. His real occupation is as a Tool and Gage Inspector. Gary sees himself as "just a fan who was in the right place at the right time". He attributes his current standing to being the result of "hard work and persistence..." and "...the support of his family, and friends such as Paul Shavor, Janos Wimpffen, Andy Hartwell, Dr. Brian Mitchell, Alan Del Gaudio and Sara Coy (at PSCR/IMSA)." He will continue to contribute to dailysportscar with an appreciation for what his subjects can do, but now has a different view than he used to. "They are all human, just like the rest of us, and as such deserve to be treated as humans, not some super hero. Their humanity, combined with their machines, is what makes the stories. I just hope that all of us at DSC are able to convey this to the readers, and I count myself as one of those readers".
[Top] Russell Wittenberg
 Russell was born and raised in the birthplace of NASCAR, Daytona Beach, Florida. But it wasn't the American style stock car racing the stirred his interest: it was those crazy little sportscars that raced for twenty four hours straight, rain or shine. Although he has been following that race since the late 70's, it was the big GTPs and the discovery of 'Sebring' during the next decade that would seal his fate. The relationship with the Editor started very innocently with just a friendly email sent complimenting him on his work with Sportscar World. After an exchange of a few emails, Russell offered to forward some images of the new Cadillac LMP from a closed test being held at D.I.S. The editor, now regretfully, encouraged him to get more of the same anytime there was sportscar action at the track. The rest as they say, is history. [Top] Lyndon Fox
 Photographer Lyndon Fox is a life-long motorsports fan. Auto racing was never a very popular pastime for friends or family on Long Island, where he lives just 30 miles east of New York City. But this future wizard of photography became aware of the sport of drag racing at an early age. And through the time-honored practice of begging and pleading with his parents to let him go to the New York National Speedway, located on the eastern end of the island, he was able to thoroughly whet his appetite for things automotive. Fast things. Fox's interest in photography started in the days he spent at his grandfather's camera store in Brooklyn. He always seemed to have a camera in his hands to record anything with an engine. In 1970, Fox learned that the Can-Am series would be visiting the now-defunct Bridgehampton Race Circuit. He went, he was hooked, and he has held a special place in his heart for sports car racing ever since. In the IMSA era, Fox attended events at Lime Rock and Watkins Glen. He also made it a point to go to the United States Grand Prix at the Glen as often as possible. His photographic skills were honed through exposure after exposure of race cars from such varied racing series as the Trans-Am, Indy car, NASCAR, Sprint cars, Moto-X, Grand Prix 500cc Motorcycles, Drag Racing, Off Shore Powerboats and Formula One. If it has wheels or a motor, he has photographed it. While pursuing Motorsports Photography primarily as a hobby, Fox has been involved in a variety of professional endeavors that have added to his turning pro. Working for Long Island's primary daily newspaper (Newsday) provided him with access to photo credentials, which later led to freelance work with the Associated Press (AP). He worked the Meadowlands Indy car races and several NHRA events for AP. Then came a job at short-lived "National Sports Daily". It was here that Fox first became involved in some of the earliest uses of digital photography. Acting as the Senior Electronic Photo Technician at "The National", Fox was responsible for delivering some of the earliest digital images that were ever used in a national publication. Combining his love of auto racing with the latest advances in digital photography, Fox now uses his expertise to provide the readers of dailysportscar.com with photo coverage of racing events. His camera puts the spectacle of motorsports right on your computer screen.
[Top] Joost Custers
 Joost is the Belgian arm of dailysportscar. His main occupation on behlaf of dsc readers is following the Belcar championship. This unique endurance championship, mixing up the fastest GTs and Touring cars, grew up from an ugly duckling to a beloved swan among the endurance championships. Besides covering the testing, practising and the actual Belcar races, Joost also likes to cover the 24 hours...of his beloved Spa, of course. He supports the dailysportscar team at the Belgian 24 Hours, mainly to ensure a flow of informational about the local drivers. His knowledge of French and Dutch is an advantage in these circumstances. About four weeks after Spa, he repeats the whole day-night-day job at Zolder, where Belcar goes round for another exhausting event. Following the French press at Auto-Hebdo is a little extra task he takes on. If it takes too long to cover a 24 hour race, he drives in one himself in a kart. The presence of Joost in the dsc-team is no coincidence. He loves the same kind of racing as Malcolm Cracknell, which seems to be normal for those who create the site, and Joost is also a teacher by profession these days. He loves the same dogs and drives the same classical British sportscar as the Editor. But he is somewhat younger......
[Top] Paul Slinger
 Paul is resident Xero Competition reporter but has earned his spurs writing race reports and team reports for dsc over the past two years. Paul has been a keen follower of the British GT Championship in particular for the past 5 years. It was only because he was going to so many races that he began to think of ways to get in free and fortunately everything came together on a snowy media day several years ago when he was awarded his first media pass. He crashed his car getting there, but that took little of the shine away from the moment (it is also where he met a certain Mr Graham Goodwin!) dsc, as it does with our readers, opened his eyes to a fantastic world of GT racing and his interest is spreading further afield - so he will have already notched up two trips to Spa and a trip to the Bugatti circuit by the end of 2003! Known for his sometimes unconventional and often humorous insight into racing, he is nicknamed 'Scoop' by the Xero team, but they love him really. Proudest moment was possibly at Brands Hatch in 2001 after an impressive finish for Rob Barff - whose first words on removing his crash helmet were " how's the hangover?" to our dishevelled reporter. Loves his British sportscars but has an increasing soft spot for noisy yellow Corvettes.
[Top] Mark Howson
 "Mark has been hooked on sportscar racing since attending Le Mans in 1989, only missing one 24-Hours since. He also attended most of the international sportscar races in the UK throughout the nineties. A combination of his highly tolerant wife, Diane, and a highly gullible bank-manager, meant that he could indulge his passion for the sport further afield in the form of trips to the Rolex 24 and the first PLM, but Sebring remains high on his wish-list. In 1998 Mark bought a PC and virtually the first website he came across after going online was 'Sportscar World'. This chance encounter would eventually lead to an invitation from Malcolm to contribute to Totalmotorsport in 2001 and it was rather a shock for Mark to find himself reporting on the British GT Championship, having only ever seen (but thoroughly enjoyed) two rounds previously, and having never, ever, spoken to a racing driver. Since then he has covered the 2002 Spa 24-Hours and made no less than three trips to Le Mans in 2003. The highlight of Mark's journalistic career to date was watching the start of the 2003 Le Mans 24 hours from the NASAMAX pit garage. He describes himself as 'a lucky bastard!'
[Top] Marcus Potts
 Writer, photographer, press officer and graphic designer – Marcus is a difficult man to put a label on. After an early career that encompassed copywriting and graphic design in fields as diverse as Landscape Management and Inland Waterways, a twist of fate during a print project for Computacenter found Marcus becoming responsible for marketing for Marcos Cars during the exciting period when the marque returned to GT racing in the mid 1990s and through to 1998 by which time Marcos’s racing interests were being upheld by Cor Euser’s MRI. His efforts as Press Officer to Team Marcos led to him being awarded them ACO’s prestigious Media Communication award. Spells with Millennium Motorsport, Parr Motorsport, Skea Racing International, Porsche Cars GB and Graham Nash Motorsport followed together with a dalliance with Team Bentley in 2002 for whom he provided all the team’s pre-race web content. His Press and PR talents have also helped a glittering array of drivers including Thomas Erdos, Kelvin Burt, Tim Harvey and Johnny Mowlem. On the design front Marcus has been responsible for some fabulous racecar liveries including the 1995 blue and silver Marcos Le Mans livery and the current RML MG Lola scheme. He carries out all Scalextric’s research photography on GT and sportscars and is even partly to blame for the Teletubbies! Most famously of all though Marcus also designed the DSC logo! At some point, and strangely, neither he nor Malcolm can remember exactly when, he met up with Malcolm Cracknell. Through SportscarWorld in 1996, Super Sportscar World, Total Motorsport and now DailySportscar he has provided features, race reports and has honorary “designer in residence” status. In 2004 Marcus is providing the DSC race reports for GruppeM Racing and for PK Sport at Le Mans
[Top] Steve Wood
 Steve Wood spent far too many years watching Touring Cars, but the luxury of Triplex corporate hospitality (pie and a pint in Redgate Lodge) spurred his interest in GT racing in 1999. Discovered Totalmotorsport the next year, and hasn't dared look back since. Got himself known by modelling the whole British GT grid for several seasons before taking up the pen on behalf of dsc and James Tucker's Britcar series.
Pushing 55, and longing for an early retirement package, Steve fills his days as a Tooling Specialist for tractor company Case New Holland, and as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex. He shamelessly admits to holding a Southend United season ticket, and retains an unhealthy obsession with Northern Soul.
And, oh, he doesn't mind being known as "the other Steve Wood".
[Top] Peter ‘Pedro’ May
Pedro has been with dsc since late 2004. He first watched a motor race at Brands Hatch in 1996 (The Formula Three Spring Trophy) but since then has developed taste! Renowned for the quality of his photography, his ability to find the quickest route between any two points anywhere, boundless energy, matchless workload, team spirit, resilience, and, by no means least, his ability to maintain all of this whilst surviving under canvas. Kentish Man Pedro can usually be found pedalling his Renault Clio (no apparently it isn’t a girl’s car) between two different tracks, often not in the same country, usually very quickly! Most extraordinary feat in dsc service – covering Spa and Le Mans in a single day. Thing to be remembered about Pedro – He’s not short he just has a very low centre of gravity for more stable photography.
[Top] David ‘Doris’ Downes
Doris has filled part of the massive void left by Editor in Chief Malcolm Cracknell’s departure from dsc’s regular ‘away team. Which parts of the void? – The chainsmoking and curmudgeonly bits! Aside from that he does look, just a little, like MCC himself too and can often be seen in confused conversation with paddock people who think that Crackers has developed a Brummie accent! As much an artist as an artisan, his dayjob as one of the country’s foremost fast food drive-in builders has added immeasurably to the UK’s skyline and his cultured eye creates Constables from Corvettes, Turners from TVRs and Gaudi’s from Audis. One quick tip for fans of Doris’s work – Next time you see him in the paddock say thank-you – he has a penchant for anything from Tesco’s Value range.
[Top] Robin Thompson
This is a brief bio. about me. Trust me, it will be brief! I was born in London. I grew up in South Devon, one of the most beautiful parts of England. I studied art and graphics at college. I have been a racing fan since I was eight years old. I spent four seasons as a driver in the late '70s and early '80s. After several years in a successful sales career, I finally got back into the creative side of my life as a designer and photographer. I now travel all over, taking photos and actually making a living! How good is that? The hours are long but I feel that the effort is worth it. It is the most creative of occupations.My past and present clients for photography and graphics include: Audi Sport, Porsche Cars North America, Risi Competizione, Orbit, BAM!, ACEMCO, Alex Job Racing, Oakley, Krohn Racing, Black Dog, Leo Hindery, Sebring International Raceway, Brian Redman, Reeves Import Motorcars Tampa, dailysportscar.com, Sebring News-Sun, Creation Autosportif, Dyson Racing, Autocon, Miracle Motorsports, Pacific Coast Motorsports, Flying Lizards, Barron-Connor Racing and Team LNT. When I am not racing, I live in tranquil Odessa, Florida, just north of Tampa.
[Top] Martin “Hugewally” Spetz
Martin has served dsc as faithfully these past few years as he served his country during his career in the US Coastguard until his retirement just a few years ago. The ‘Coasties’ motto is Semper Paratus, meaning "Always Ready" and Huge certainly lives up to that, despite his status as a retired gentleman of leisure Huge’s shots are often the first seen from a race weekend whether its ALMS or one of his beloved historic meetings. Marty’s frame is built for stability, a fine monument to all that’s great about America.
It’s big, is a major consumer, and (one to note here for the ladies) it’s free!
[Top] Danny Bear
 Danny Bear is the lynchpin for the whole dsc operation. His successful business enterprises have given the site a very firm financial footing and his ruthless business nous means that any hostile takeover bids will be met with a heady cocktail of good natured banter and senseless violence. Danny is always up for the challenge and has attended Le Mans, Sebring, Petit Le Mans, Daytona (where he hooked up once more with long lost cousin Denny) and Spa as part of the dsc crew. He’ll be on tour again this coming season with the dailysportscar team.
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