Peter Windsor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (March 2007)

Peter David Windsor (born on April 11, 1952 in England) is a Formula 1 journalist and reporter, and has formerly worked for the Williams and Ferrari Formula 1 teams. Peter Windsor was brought up in Australia. He was the motorsport editor for the British weekly magazine Autocar in the late 1970s until 1985, lauded for his grand prix reports.

Currently Peter Windsor carries out on-location reports from Formula 1 venues for SPEED Channel. He is also the moderator for Formula 1's post-qualifying and post-race press conferences. Technically, Windsor isn't really a SPEED employee. He is actually a part of the pool coverage that SPEED relies on for its video coverage, gathering interviews with drivers and other F1 personnel during a race weekend. He also does reports and phones in from the pitlane before the start of each race for Network Ten Australia's coverage.

In 1985 Windsor became sponsorship manager at Williams. He then worked as general manager at Ferrari, and returned to Williams as team manager in 1991. Windsor's writing has won him five awards, and his previous television work (at least, the bulk of it) has all taken place with networks inside Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. From 1998 to 2000, Windsor was the on-location reporter for FSN's Formula 1 coverage. He then joined Sky Sports as a pit reporter on their F1 Digital + package. He also worked as a pit reporter for the American Broadcasting Company's coverage of the 2002 United States Grand Prix. He has also returned to WilliamsF1 as the narrator of the museum in the team's Interactive HQ website.

In 1986, shortly before the start of the season, Windsor was in the car with Frank Williams that crashed on its way from the Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France to the Nice airport, leaving Windsor with minor injuries but Williams, who was driving, paralysed. ^[1]

Since the 2006 season, Windsor has seen an increase in his role — SPEED has a live camera on the pre-race grid, where Windsor conducts team interviews.

Peter Windsor is currently Grand Prix Editor of F1 Racing magazine, for which he writes race reports, feature articles, and 'The Friction Circle' column.

He has spoken out against making changes to Formula 1 to improve the quality of racing by making overtaking easier. He said in 2007: "I would change nothing. I think F1 is fantastic as it is. If you want to watch a million meaningless overtaking manoeuvres and lots of shunts go and watch NASCAR or bikes or IRL or something." ^[2] Comments such as this, as well as critique of driver's style despite having no apparent racing experience himself, has led to negative reaction from some Formula One and motorsport fans.

[edit] References