Guest Speaker

Jason Plato

Jason is one of the most recognized personalities in British Motorsport. He is the second most successful British Touring Car Championship driver of all time and has a wealth of experience driving a variety of cars in various championships. A successful business man and TV presenter, Jason has an abundance of knowledge within the industry that means that he forms a crucial part of the Inside Motorsport seminars.

2009 Si... more

Gary Anderson

From Coleraine in Northern Ireland, Gary was fascinated by racing from his youth and indulged in more than a little road racing with his mates through the Ulster countryside. Wanting to escape from the political troubles and keen to get into motor racing, he moved to England at 19 with dreams of becoming a racing driver but found work as a mechanic at Motor Racing Stables at Brands Hatch. Soon afterwards he found a job a... more

Louise Goodman

With her extensive experience within the Motorsport & Media Industries Louise is a perfect addition to the Inside Motorsport team and will provide expert media training in order to give students the ability to handle the press in a professional and successful manner. Students will be equipped to handle high pressure situations such as TV interviews, press conferences and dealing with a group of sponsors.

James Robinson

A mechanical engineering graduate from Leeds University in the north of England, James worked at David Brown Industries in Yorkshire before he found a job as a design engineer at Williams in 1984. A specialist in computer-aided design - which was new at the time - James was hired by Patrick Head to help fill the gap left at Williams when Neil Oatley and Ross Brawn left to join Carl Haas's FORCE team.

Mark Handford

Mark Handford trained at Rolls-Royce Aero Engines and the University of Southampton, graduating in Aeronautical Engineering. He then studied for an MSc in the Department of Aeronautics at London’s Imperial College gaining a PhD for Research in Experimental Aerodynamics in 1986 on the development of turbulence modelling for use in Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Mark’s involvement in motorsports began, while still a studen... more

Dan Walmsley

Dan graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in automotive engineering and joined McLaren cars as a development engineer working on vehicle performance and simulation. After four years he moved to Lister Storm Racing as chief engineer. In 2006 he joined David Price Racing as a Race Engineer in GP2. 

Subsequently Dan formed Paragon Motion Ltd, a motorsport engineering consultancy who have provided race engi... more

Jay Davenport

Jay graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in Automotive Engineering before moving to Coventry University and studying for an MBA in Engineering Management. Since then Jay has gained extensive motorsport experience in both design and trackside engineering from Formula BMW through to Formula 1. He started off by engineering single seaters and sportscars before switching to front wheel drive touring cars wi... more

Jonathan Moury

Nicknamed 'Flex', Jonathan Moury finished studying Computer Science and Systems at university in Belgium in 2006.