Gordon Kirby

Journalist and Author

Nationality: American

Profile

Gordon Kirby is the United States editor of Motor Sport, the world’s original racing magazine founded in 1924. Check-out Motor Sport at www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk. Kirby is the author of many racing books including the award-winning 2001 biography of Mario Andretti, A Racing Passion. In 2008 Kirby published Rick Mears-Thanks and has just completed writing the complete history of Carl Haas Auto and Newman/Haas Racing. He expects to publish the Newman/Haas book in the fall of this year. Kirby has been in the race-writing business for forty years. He was the American editor of Autosport for 32 years from 1973-2005 and has writtten for many American car and racing magazines including Road & Track, Car & Driver, AutoWeek, Racer, OnTrack and Indy Car magazines. Gordon also writes a yearly review of the American racing season for Autocourse, the world’s leading racing annual. Gordon is a contributor to RaceFansTV.com with his highly-regarded The Way It Is column.

Gordon Kirby lives in Mt. Sunapee, New Hampshire. He worked as a go-fer and team manager with his friend David Loring in 1970-'72 when David started his racing career in Formula Fords. (David won 50 FF races during those three years in the United States, Canada & England and went on to win the United States FF title in 1978 driving Dan Gurney's factory AAR Eagle. He also won his class times four times in GTU ad GTO cars at Sebring). Kirby's hobbies are hiking and snow-showing in the New Hampshire mountains.