The DSC Team

Graham ‘GG’ Goodwin: Editor & Partner
E-mail: graham@dailysportscar.com
Twitter: @dsceditor

After following Formula One for many years, Graham saw the light in 1995 when his 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!

He discovered the delights of internet reporting on the sport soon after. With the untimely retirement of DSC’s founding editor, Graham stepped up to the tiller and now combines the editorship with regular duties on Radio Le Mans and as the colour commentator for WEC TV.

Hugely happily married to Trudie, Graham has a sportscar-mad son and an increasingly petrolheaded daughter (much to Mum’s despair!) plus some disinterested cats. His current Surrey eyrie belies his Northern roots as, apparently, does his broad cockney accent*.

Graham holds the record for the most nicknames in current usage (or rather abusage) in the DSC team, GG, Beer Tricks, Mainwaring, Cockney, Gooders and many, many more.

*Only in the fevered imaginations of DSC’s resident Brummie Mafiosi Lordy and Doris.

David ‘Lordy’ Lord: Photography Editor & Partner

Together with seemingly everyone else of note in British motorsport, ‘His Lordship’ hails from Hinckley, Leicestershire. A full-time motorsport photographer, he’s provided some of the most evocative images of British and international racing in recent years.

A staunch supporter of the British GT Championship, 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 came aboard as a co-owner of DSC in 2002 and now sits as Photography Editor, co-ordinating the efforts of our excellent team of snappers around the world.

He’s travelled the world with DSC, helped immeasurably in his efforts by an ability to sleep anywhere for as long as he likes. Dave regularly falls asleep as a transcontinental flight is taxiing to the runway and only wakes up as the engines are switched off at the destination!

A confirmed bachelor, Dave has a kitchen with a range of high-end utensils that have never seen action. He is though on first-name terms with a bewildering range of takeaways…

Stephen Kilbey: Deputy Editor
Twitter: @stephenk22
Email: 
stephen.kilbey@dailysportscar.com

Stephen is a motorsport nut from a family of motorsport nuts. Most children taken around Europe in a caravan to major sportscar races would be in therapy by now, but Stephen has launched a career off the back of it!

After compiling a Le Mans guide that ran to some 200 pages at the age of 15, he joined the DSC race reporting crew back in 2012.

Now at the end of his University career, he has started a new one, as Deputy Editor of DSC, working full-time alongside the DSC Editor. As part of that Stephen covers the FIA WEC and Blancpain Sprint Series.

Ambitious, hard-working and eager to learn, he’s struggled to fit in with the DSC regulars!

Stephen is the 2014 Guild Of Motoring Writers Sir William Lyons Award winner.

RJ O’Connell: Reporter

RJ fell in love with motorsport and car culture through video games. A childhood spent playing Gran Turismo led him to fall in love with the cars of the All-Japan GT Championship, now known as SUPER GT.

A creatively-inclined person with a background in theatre and voice-overs, RJ picked up writing as a hobby and, seeing a lack of the sort of in-depth coverage and analysis of SUPER GT that existed for other series at the time, started writing about it on the blog Super GT World in 2016.

This then caught the attention of DSC, who brought RJ on board for the 2017 season where he specialises in coverage of SUPER GT and Super Taikyu. Based in the United States, RJ has also been an in-field reporter for North American sports car racing series, mainly the IMSA Sportscar Championship and SRO GT World Challenge America.

Away from the racing sphere, RJ advocates for the acceptance and empowerment of neurodivergent people like himself; he is also proudly a part of the LGBTQIA+ community and advocates for the well-being of his fellow siblings in the community.

Peter ‘Pedro’ May: Photographer
Twitter: @pedrodsc

Pedro has been with DSC since late 2004. He first watched a motor race at Brands Hatch in 1996 (the Formula 3 Spring Trophy), but since then has developed taste!

He’s renowned for quality photography, finding the quickest route between any two points, boundless energy, matchless workload, team spirit, resilience and by no means least, an ability to maintain all this whilst surviving under canvas.

Kent man Pedro can usually be found pedalling his beloved Lotus Elise between two different tracks, often not in the same country, usually very quickly, a skill gained whilst on courier duty for his day job: official pie taster to the Kentish public!

Most extraordinary feats in DSC service? Covering Spa and Le Mans in a single day and managing to duck when Allan McNish threw his Audi R18 at him in 2011.

Something else to be remembered about Pedro: he’s not short, he just has a very low centre of gravity for more stable photography!

David ‘Doris’ Downes: Photographer

Doris filled part of the massive void left by Founding Editor Malcolm Cracknell’s departure from the regular DSC team. Which parts? The chain-smoking and curmudgeonly parts, of course! Well, that was before he gave up cigarettes, as much of a shock to everyone else as it was to his lungs.

Aside from that, he does look just a little like Malcolm and could often be seen in the weeks following the latter’s retirement in confused conversation with paddock people who thought that Crackers had developed a Brummie accent!

Doris is as much an artist as an artisan,  his day job 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 Toyotas and Gaudis from Audis.

He’s renowned for his love of many things: women, cats, children and Audi Q7s, can you guess which two make the cut?

Andrew ‘Skippy’ Hall: Photographer

The man with the least imaginative nickname on DSC, Skippy hails from Sydney and lends his not-inconsiderable photographic genius to our WEC coverage, where he forms one corner of the much-feared ‘Four Musketeers’ with Messrs Lord, Downes and Lefebure.

Regis Lefebure: Photographer

The little orange legend! Regis’s world class images have graced DSC’s pages since the very beginning, and if anything his cultured eye just gets better with age – like a fine wine, a classic car, or a vertically challenged American.

Whilst his art is legendary for the best of reasons, his self organisation matches it for possibly the best example of chaos theory in human form.

Many have witnessed the inevitable search for a race pass in every pocket of every bag, and in every pocket of every piece of clothing too, often multiple times, before finally realising that he is actually watching the TV at home with his lovely wife.

Martin Little: Reporter

DVD stands for Dick van Dyke, proof positive that Lordy and Doris haven’t got a grip of UK geography.

An Essex boy, Martin now resides perilously close to Doris’s Worcester home.

His passion is music, a bass player of some renown he often played to packed stadia (pubs) before his recent retirement to a gentler life covering the British GT Championship and a regular and highly enthusiastic member of DSC’s regular Le Mans 24 Hours ‘crew’.

Sam Tickell: Reporter
@racerviews

DSC’s second Aussie in Residence, Sam has long been a feature of the motorsport reporting community on the internet via his ‘Racerviews’ site and joined the DSC ‘collective’ several years ago to bolster our Aussie GT and Bathurst 12 Hours coverage.

His DSC nickname is a work in progress, we’re working on options for consideration including his facial hair, clearly put on Aussie accent and his love, and we mean that in the deepest and most meaningful sense, of rallying!

Mat ‘Rene’ Fernandez: Reporter
@MatLemans

One of our latest recruits, Mat, despite a name that suggests a previous career as a Mexican bandit, was actually born at Tertre Rouge (not during the race we hasten to add).

He now provides regular updates from the wide, wide world of French language sportscar racing, with the aid and assistance of his good lady.

We’ll be seeing much, much more of Mat’s moniker on DSC in the future

James Goodwin: Reporter

James, son of DSC editor Graham, made a return to DSC in 2014 after a career-enforced absence of several years. Inheriting his good looks from his Dad (lucky, lucky lad), James covers a range of Asian series for the site.

Marcus Potts: Reporter

Writer, photographer, press officer and graphic designer, Marcus is a difficult man to label.

After an early career in copywriting and graphic design for fields as diverse as landscape management and inland waterways, a twist of fate found Marcus responsible for marketing for Marcos Cars during the period when it returned to GT racing in the mid-90s.

Spells with Millennium Motorsport, Parr Motorsport, Skea Racing International, Porsche Cars GB and Graham Nash Motorsport followed, as well as a dalliance with Team Bentley in 2002. His press and PR talents have also helped a glittering array of drivers, including Tommy Erdos, Kelvin Burt, Tim Harvey and Johnny Mowlem.

On the design front, Marcus has been responsible for some fabulous race car liveries, including the 1995 blue-and-silver Marcos, the enduring RML MG Lola scheme and recent designs for Ecurie Ecosse.

He’s carried out research for Spark, Scalextric and Fly on GT and sportscar models and is even partly to blame for the Teletubbies. Most famously of all, he designed the DSC logo!

At some point, strangely neither can remember exactly when, he met up with Malcolm Cracknell. He’s since provided features and race reports and has honorary ‘designer in residence’ status.

Martin Spetz: Photographer

Martin has served DSC faithfully these past few years as he served his country during his career in the US Coastguard until his retirement.

The ‘Coasties’ motto is Semper Paratus (“Always Ready”) and Martin 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 it’s IMSA or one of his beloved historic meetings.

Martin’s frame is a fine monument to all that’s great about America. It’s big, is a major bacon consumer and (one to note here, ladies) is free!

David Warnock: Partner

David’s involvement with DSC came about because of his desire to 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 racing in 1989 in a Porsche 911 SC and progressed to win the British Porsche Supercup title in 1991. He took the British GT2 title in 1996 in a Marcos and again in 1999 driving a Lister. In the same year, he took his own Porsche to Daytona and claimed GT2 class victory ahead of the factory Corvettes.

In 2001, he teamed up with Mike Jordan to win the Tourist Trophy and the British GT title. He’s raced all over the world and competed in six Le Mans, which he rates as unquestionably the best race on earth.

Malcolm ‘Crackers’ Cracknell: Founding Editor

Malcolm Cracknell blames Michael Cotton for his obsession with sportscar racing. If you couldn’t be there, MC would describe the action, hour by hour.

A career as a teacher and duties as a responsible husband simultaneously came to an end at the age of 40. Thus began a rollercoaster ride writing about his beloved endurance racing on the internet, which allowed as much space as necessary to do justice to any race.

The story of Sportscarworld’s demise is almost too painful to recall: its domain name was snatched away during Le Mans week in 2000, leaving the editor mentally wrecked after years of grindingly hard work.

A gentleman called Tim Blake, plus many of the site’s readers, came to the rescue and TotalMotorSport was born in January 2001. 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.

After a disastrous first year that saw an original partner let down the new enterprise both financially and technically, DSC bounced back and Malcolm led it tirelessly, setting the standard for internet sportscar journalism that others have since tried to follow.

Health issues forced his retirement from front-line duties in 2007, but as our Founding Editor, he’s still a steadying hand on the tiller, always ready with sage advice and absolutely always ready with an opinion, too!

Paul ‘Rumpole’ Slinger: Reporter

Paul has been with DSC as an irregular correspondent since the very beginning, latterly blending his race-reporting appearances with paternal duties for his young family and his day job as a High Court judge.*

Paul’s introduction to ‘the other side of the fence’ came around the turn of the century, when it occurred to him that because he was going to so many races, he needed to think of ways to get in for free.

Everything came together on a snowy British GT media day 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’s also where he met a certain Mr Goodwin!).

Paul is one of an astonishing three of the DSC regulars that owns a sports car. He’s a confirmed Lotus nut, and even when fatherhood beckoned, he managed to persuade his lovely wife Victoria that the ‘family’ Elise should stay!

*Fundamentally untrue