Eric Dymock

Eric has a life-long perspective of the world of cars and motoring.

He remains best-known for his well-reviewed book on Jim Clark - and has been pleased to release his Jackie Stewart book in paperback as well as ebook, in aid of the Race against Dementia charity. Jim and Jackie were two drivers he knew at the start of their careers, and there could hardly be a better author to write about what made both these Scotsmen such motor racing champions.

Prolific in all media, Eric researched and scripted for BBCTV Wheelbase, Thames Television’s Drive-in over 7 years as well as the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He broadcast on BBC Radio 4, BFBS and World Service, was motoring editor, News of the World (1973-1975), Sunday Magazine (1982-1985) and Road and Car, the RAC quarterly of News International with a 7million print run. Freelance work included motoring correspondent for Town (Haymarket, 1966-1968) and extensive writing over many years for The Times, Financial Times, The Scotsman and Daily Telegraph, He was British Correspondent for Autovisie (Holland), Bilen og Båden (Denmark), and La Gazetta dello Sport (Italy) and wrote for specialists Autosport and Reader’s Digest Drive magazine.

He worked on the technical and road test staff on Motor and Autocar, was motor racing correspondent of The Guardian and The Observer for 15 years, and motoring correspondent of The Sunday Times for 13 years. He has received major awards for his writing, which includes histories of Audi, Bentley, BMW, Jaguar, Ford in Britain, Saab, Vauxhall, Renault, MG and Honda, as well as books on world champions Sir Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark.

Twice chairman of the Fleet Street Group of motoring writers, he was motoring correspondent of Scotland on Sunday until 2006, and Scottish Field (1995-2001). Eric was motoring editor of The Business published by The Spectator.

Awards

“Eric has a happy knack of writing with authority, never talking down to his audience, and never following the herd".

Eric Dymock won four Jet Media Excellence Awards, including the overall title in 1988, for his Sunday Times columns together with features in the Telegraph Magazine, Thames TV’s Drive-in and BBC Radio 4 Going Places. Chairman of the adjudicators said: “Eric has a happy knack of writing with authority, never talking down to his audience, and never following the herd".

Two books, Saab, Half a Century of Achievement (1997), and The Complete Bentley (2009) gained Guild of Motoring Writers’ Montagu Awards for “the greatest contribution to recording in the English language the history of motoring in a published book”. A third, Jim Clark, Tribute to a Champion was also runner-up in 1997. He was Guild of Motoring Writers regional motoring journalist of the year 2003, and in 2004 the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers presented him with the Jim Clark Memorial Award for Scots achieving excellence in the field of motoring. In 2014 he gained the ASMW’s President’s Award.