Doug Nye (born October 1945) is an English motoring journalist and author. He lives in
Farnham
Farnham ( /ˈfɑːnəm/) is a market town and civil parish in Surrey, England, around southwest of London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, close to the county border with Hampshire. The town is on the north branch of the River Wey, a trib ...
, Surrey, England.
He is generally recognised as a world authority on competition cars of any period from 1887, and is a consultant to the Bonhams auction house, the Collier Collection (in the USA) and sits on the Advisory Council of the British National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. He has also consulted for The Dutch National Motor Museum, the Brooklands Museum in England, McLaren International and McLaren Cars Limited. He was a founding consultant to the SpeedVision TV network in the USA and to the
Donington Collection
The Donington Grand Prix Collection, sometime known as the ''Donington Grand Prix Exhibition'', was a museum of motor racing cars, based at the Donington Park motor racing circuit in Leicestershire, England. The collection, which started in t ...
of single-seater racing cars, is Historical Consultant (founding) to Goodwood Motorsport – creators of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival Meeting, and a member of the Historians Council of the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen, NY.
At the age of 18 he went straight from grammar school to the staff of ''Motor Racing'' magazine based at
Brands Hatch. Since then he has written more than 70 motor racing books.
He has presented assorted TV programmes covering motor racing and collectors' cars, and since 2004 – with colleague David Weguelin has produced the Motorfilms Quarterly series of 90-minute archival movie DVDs/video tapes.
He has also been, or is currently, a regular contributor to ''
The Daily Telegraph'' and ''
Motor Sport
''Motor Sport'' is a monthly motor racing magazine, founded in the United Kingdom in 1924
as the ''Brooklands Gazette''. The name was changed to ''Motor Sport'' for the August 1925 issue. The magazine covers motor sport in general, although from ...
''.
In November 2022, for his body of work over more than 50 years, the Royal Automobile Club Motoring Book of the Year panel presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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References
External links
*http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Doug_Nye.html Books by D Nye.
*http://www.books.co.uk/authors/doug_nye/
Living people
British motoring journalists
Historians of motorsport
Formula One journalists and reporters
English motorsport people
1945 births
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