Simon Taylor

Biography

Simon Taylor was born on August 8, 1944. He is an actor and writer, known for Rush (2013), Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie (2021) and ITV - Formula One (1997). Simon Taylor has been immersed in motor sport for nearly 50 years as a journalist, commentator, publisher and historian. He joined the weekly magazine Autosport straight from university, and was its editor by the age of 23. He moved on to be a publisher for its proprietors, 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 then its Chairman.

He was BBC Radio’s voice of motor racing for more than 20 years, reporting on Formula...