Champions on the road to F1
All year MARCUS SIMMONS has been highlighting emerging single-seater talents in his Stars of Tomorrow features. Now he salutes 2013's junior racing champions and predicts their next moves up the motorsport ladder
Throughout 2013 AUTOSPORT's Marcus Simmons followed motorsport's junior racers to see who the Formula 1 stars of the future might be.
With the racing season now over, he takes a look back at those who took their various championship titles. And those who missed out but could still be drivers you'll be hearing more about very soon.
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Marcus Simmons is the Deputy Editor of Autosport magazine. As a child he was a regular on the chalk banks of Thruxton – hence his unhealthy obsession with 1970s Formula 2 and F3 – before he became an MSA timekeeper at the age of 17. At 19, his reporting debut for Motoring News arguably overshadowed Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal as the sporting moment of June 1986, and he joined the staff in 1990 after graduating from his degree course in Plymouth. A parallel Formula First career – which was as incident-packed as his childhood exploits in show-jumping and hunter trials – finished when he wrote off his car and put himself in hospital in 1991.
Marcus moved to Autosport in the summer of 1996. Since then he has had two stints as a freelancer and a brief spell as editor of Motor Sport magazine, during which the revered green cover was revived, before he rejoined Autosport in 2008. He lives in Teddington with his wife (who, gratifyingly, grew up within earshot of Castle Combe), daughter, stepson, dog, cat and guitars, and additionally has an adult daughter and stepson.
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