Tim Wright: Introducing Autosport's new technical expert

From Ron Dennis to Jean Todt and Ross Brawn, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, Tim Wright has worked with the best in the business. Autosport's new technical expert reflects on a career littered with success in F1 and sportscars over four decades

Published Feb 11, 2020, 2:32 PM

For someone who "wasn't bright enough to go to university", Autosport's new technical expert Tim Wright has enjoyed a motorsport career that would be the envy of most engineers.

From running Alain Prost to back-to-back Formula 1 world championship titles in 1985 and 1986, winning Le Mans as a race engineer at Peugeot in 1992 to working with the likes of Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, Wright has been at the heart of the action for the past 40 years and remains involved in engineering today in sportscar events around the world.

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Author James Newbold

James Newbold is Autosport's Plus Editor, responsible for coordinating website feature content.

In a sign of things to come, having completed his Politics and International Relations degree at the University of East Anglia in 2015, he left his graduation ceremony early to catch the last train to Brussels for the following day's Spa 24 Hours.

After a period as a freelancer, he joined the Autosport staff in 2018 and won the Motorsport UK young journalist of the year award. He initially edited Autosport magazine's Performance and Engineering supplements before joining the website team in his current role in 2020.

A keen enthusiast of anything that can be categorised unusual or niche, he enjoys unearthing little-known stories across all branches of motorsport, but has spent most of his career covering sportscars and is a regular part of the Le Mans 24 Hours reporting team.

He lives with his wife and children in Plymouth, England.