Eric Dymock

Eric Dymock trained as an engineer in Glasgow, writing for Glasgow Herald, Scotsman and Top Gear magazine of the Scottish Sporting Car Club. He joined the road test staff of The Motor, and from 1966 was Grand Prix Correspondent of The Guardian and later The Observer. As Motoring Correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1982-1995 he won four Jet Media Excellence Awards, including the overall title in 1988. He wrote and researched motoring programmes for BBC2 and Thames Television, broadcast on BBC...See more

Eric Dymock trained as an engineer in Glasgow, writing for Glasgow Herald, Scotsman and Top Gear magazine of the Scottish Sporting Car Club. He joined the road test staff of The Motor, and from 1966 was Grand Prix Correspondent of The Guardian and later The Observer. As Motoring Correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1982-1995 he won four Jet Media Excellence Awards, including the overall title in 1988. He wrote and researched motoring programmes for BBC2 and Thames Television, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Going Places, writing for The Times, Financial Times, and Daily Telegraph motoring sections. He was Motoring Editor of Sunday Magazine 1982-1985 and Road and Car, the RAC quarterly published by News International. Until 2006 he was motoring correspondent of Scotland on Sunday. His books include Champion Year with Jackie Stewart (Pelham, 1970), The Guinness Guide to Grand Prix Motor Racing (Guinness Superlatives, 1980), The Sprites and Midgets (Motor Racing Publications, 1981), BMW A Celebration (Pavilion UK and Orion USA, 1990) and under his own Dove Publishing imprint Rover The First Ninety Years, and Saab Half a Century of Achievement which gained the Guild of Motoring Writers Montagu Award for 1997. Dove's other books include Jim Clark, Tribute to a Champion, 1997 and the File series of Eric Dymock Motor Books, definitive histories of Audi, Renault, Vauxhall, MG, Jaguar, Ford in Britain and Land Rover. The Complete Bentley published in November 2008 brought his second Montagu Award in 2009. In 2004 the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers presented Eric Dymock with the Jim Clark Memorial Award for Scots who have achieved excellence in the field of motoring. See less