Steve Matchett
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Steve Matchett 2005 United States Grand Prix
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23 December 1962 England |
| Occupation | Author, columnist, editor, television broadcaster |
| Genre | Formula One |
Steve Matchett (born 23 December 1962 in England) is a commentator for American TV network NBC and NBC Sports Network on its various Formula One programmes. Notably, he co-hosts live Formula One practices, qualifying sessions, and races alongside David Hobbs and Leigh Diffey.
As well as his live F1 duties, Matchett also co-presented with the same duo a pre-recorded show on Speed Channel called Formula One Debrief, reviewing the events of the preceding week's grand prix.
Until the conclusion of the 2012 Formula One season, he was a commentator for the FOX owned American Speed Channel. For the 2013 Formula One season, he was signed to NBC Sports Network, alongside Speed TV veterans David Hobbs and Leigh Diffey.
He was a columnist for the Speed Channel website and presented a series of web-based video 'chalk-talk' features in which, with photographs and a telestrator, he explains F1 engineering and technical matters.
He was a regular contributor and columnist to F1 Racing magazine from 1996 to 2008. He was Technical Editor of the magazine from 1998 to 2008 (resigning his editorship when Matt Bishop resigned as Editor-in-Chief).
He has also published a semi-autobiographical trilogy based around his years in the F1 pit lane.
Loughborough University (technical college) 1979–1982, City & Guilds Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship
In 1977, he started working as a mechanic for Howlett's of Loughborough performing routine service for Mazda and Vauxhall vehicles. He joined Greypaul Motors in 1986, a UK Ferrari dealership; then to a BMW dealership from 1988 to 1989. In January 1989 he was employed at a Cooper-BMW dealership in Rothley near Loughborough for exactly one year. He began his F1 career in 1990.
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