Peter Windsor

Peter David Windsor (born 11 April 1952 in Reigate, Surrey, England) is a Formula One journalist. Windsor started his journalism career at the now defunct monthly magazine Competition Car. He was the motorsport editor for the British weekly magazine Autocar from the late 1970s until 1985, and was lauded for his Grand Prix reports. In 1985, thanks to his close relationship with Nigel Mansell, Windsor became sponsorship manager at Williams. Shortly before the start of the 1986 season, Windsor was in an automobile accident when the car he was riding in with Frank Williams crashed on the way from the Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France to the Nice airport, causing Windsor minor injuries but leaving Williams, who was driving, paralysed. He then worked as general manager for Ferrari's UK base in 1989, only to return to Williams as team manager in 1991. Most of his early television work took place with networks of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. From 1998 to 2000, Windsor was the on-location reporter for Fox Sports Networks' coverage of Formula One. He then joined Sky Sports as a pit reporter on their F1 Digital + package. He also worked as a pit reporter for the American Broadcasting Company's coverage of the 2002 United States Grand Prix. He also returned to WilliamsF1 as the narrator of the museum in the team's Interactive HQ website. Windsor carried out on-location reports from Formula One venues for Speed, with colleagues Bob Varsha, Steve Matchett, and David Hobbs covering the races from the studio. He traveled to the various race venues to provide interviews with drivers and other F1 personnel during each race weekend. After the 2006 season, this role increased in prominence with Speed's addition of a live camera on the pre-race grid, where Windsor wandered the grid to conduct pre-race interviews with drivers, race engineers, managers, team principals, FIA personnel and visiting celebrities. He also frequently contributed analysis during the race. For several