Lord March

Earl of March - President of the BARC

Lord March manages the family seat, Goodwood estate, for his father, and has continued the horseracing tradition of Goodwood Racecourse, one of the highlights of the flat racing season in England and he is also a motor racing enthusiast, creating the "Goodwood Festival of Speed" in 1993 and the "Goodwood Revival" in 1998 as annual events.

Kirsty Moore - Red Arrows

Flight Lieutenant Kirsty is one of only ten female RAF pilots.

She joined as a teenager in 1998, and flies Tornados and Hawks with XIII Squadron out of RAF Marham, Norfolk.

Bobby Rahal

Three-time Indycar Champion and 1986 Indy 500 winner.

American auto racing driver and team owner. As a driver, he won three championships and 24 races in the CART open-wheel series, including the 1986 Indianapolis 500. He also won the 2004 Indianapolis 500 as a team owner for the winning driver, Buddy Rice.

After retiring as a driver, Rahal held managerial positions with the Jaguar Formula 1 team and also was an interim president of the CART series. Rahal was also a sports car driver during the 1980s, and made one NASCAR start for the Wood Brothers.

Jenson Button MBE

(born 19 January 1980) is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.

Leon Haslam

World Superbike star and son of British Motorcycle Ledend Ron Haslam.

He began racing at an early age and by the time he was in his late teens, he had raced in most of the significant British and international championships. Between 2005 and 2008 he was a regular front-runner in the British Superbike Championship. For 2009 he switched to the Superbike World Championship, remaining there in 2010 (his third full season in the class) on a factory Suzuki. Haslam is nicknamed 'Pocket Rocket' and is the son of 'Rocket' Ron Haslam.

Lynda Bellingham

Joined Loose Women in early 2007, and she still continues as a regular panelist. In 2009 she was one of the contestants on Series 7 of Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC ratings winner where she partnered Darren Bennett. She was voted out by the judges in the fourth week.

The Stig - Ben Collins

The second Stig's identity was revealed, in his own autobiogaphy, as Ben Collins, a professional racing driver who had participated in Formula Three, Indy Lights, sportscars, GT racing and stock cars.

Antony Worrall Thompson

British celebrity chef, television presenter and radio broadcaster.

He made his first television appearance on BBC2’s Food and Drink, before appearing on Ready Steady Cook from 1994.

In 2003, he appeared in the second series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, which led to him replacing Gregg Wallace as the host of BBC2's Saturday Kitchen. The show transferred to BBC1 to replace Saturday morning children's television. However, after a large financial offer from ITV, Worrall Thompson and the production company responsible for the show, Prospect Pictures transferred the format - including Australian wine expert Matt Skinner - to ITV from June 2006. The new show Saturday Cooks fared poorly against the new BBC production of Saturday Kitchen fronted by the younger James Martin, and retreated as Daily Cooks Challenge to now only air during the week. Since the move to ITV, Thompson has ceased to appear as a guest chef on Ready, Steady, Cook

Russell Brookes

(born 16 August 1945) is an English former rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985. In 1978, he won the Rally New Zealand, a round of the FIA Cup for Drivers, the predecessor to the World Championship for Drivers. In the World Rally Championship, he finished on the podium of his home event, the RAC Rally, three times in a row from 1977 to 1979.

Steve Soper

BTCC, ETCC, and DTM star and BMW factory Le Mans driver.

retired racing driver from Surrey, England, born in 1951. He raced in sports cars and touring cars at the top level for over 20 years. In 1983 he almost won the British Touring Car Championship before his Rover was deemed illegal. He finished as runner-up in the series in 1988 in a Ford Sierra, and in 1993 behind team-mate Joachim Winkelhock for BMW driving an M3. In 1997 he came second in the FIA GT Championship and was fifth driving a Ford Sierra for Rudi Eggenberger in the one-off World Touring Car Championship in 1987 run under Group A regulations.

William Fox-Pitt

(born 2 January 1969), is an English equestrian. He has had notable successes at the Burghley, Badminton, Blenheim and Bramham Horse Trials. He first won the British Open Championships at Gatcombe Park in 1995 and his career highlights include an Olympic team Silver Medal at the Summer Olympic Games at Athens in 2004 and a Team Gold Medal and Individual Silver medal at the World Equestrian Games at Kentucky in 2010.

Lawrence Thomlinson

Lawrence Tomlinson is a Yorkshire based entrepreneur with an estimated wealth of £400m. In April 2010, the 46 year old was announced as the 178th richest person in the UK in the annual Sunday Times Rich List.
 
Tomlinson is founder and chairman of the LNT Group – which houses eight core businesses under its parentage: LNT Construction, Ideal Care Homes, Haigh Mechanical and Electrical, CoolBlue Software, Basic Solutions, Ginetta Cars, Ginetta Supercars and the Repton based Zytek Engineering in which he has an equal stake.

Sir Stirling Moss OBE FIE

(born 17 September 1929 in London) is a former racing driver from England. His success in a variety of categories placed him among the world's elite – he is often called "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship".

Captin Mark Phillips CVO ADC(P)

(born 22 September 1948) is an Olympic gold-medal-winning horseman and first husband of Anne, Princess Royal.

Nick Mason

Pink Floyd drummer and renowned classic car enthusuast and racer.

He was the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965. Despite solely writing only a few Pink Floyd songs, Mason has contributed to some of Pink Floyd's most popular songs such as "Interstellar Overdrive", "A Saucerful Of Secrets" and "Echoes". He also competes in auto racing events, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans and Goodwood Festival of Speed

David Richards C.B.E

Chairman and chief executive, Prodrive Group and Chairman, Aston Martin.

After studying accountancy, David became a professional rally co-driver, competing for the factory Leyland, Opel and Ford teams.  While with Ford, he co-drove Ari Vatanen to victory in the British and Scandinavian championships, and finished his competition career by winning the World Rally Championship with Vatanen in 1981.

Following this title, David devoted his time to developing his business interests, which led to the formation of his own rally team and the creation of Prodrive in 1984.  The company established its headquarters in Banbury, Oxfordshire, where, under David’s direction, it has grown into a world leading motorsport and automotive technology business, with operations on three continents and employing more than 600 staff with annual sales in excess of £100 million. 

Rene Arnoux

Former Renault, Ferrari and Ligier F1 star and 7 times Grand Prix winner.

European Formula Two champion in 1977, René Arnoux graduated to Formula One in 1978, with the small French Martini team of Tico Martini. In an organisation with insufficient means to figure in the highest echelon of the sport, Arnoux was unable to demonstrate his abilities. Martini abandoned Formula One during the season, having run short of money. Arnoux found refuge at the end of the season at the Surtees team, but once again found himself in a team on the edge of failure.

Jake Humphrey

BBC Formula 1 Commentator.

English television presenter, currently best known for his work with BBC Sport, being the youngest ever presenter to host Football Focus, Match of the Day and Final Score. He currently presents the BBC's Formula One coverage and BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He also hosted Super Bowls XLII, XLIII, XLIV, and XLV, the Africa Cup of Nations in January 2008, the Beijing Olympics in August 2008 and the Commonwealth Games in October 2010.

Bernard Cribbins

(born 29 December 1928) is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2010 is still an active performer. He is particularly known to British audiences as the voice of "The Wombles", a children's programme running for 40 episodes in the mid 1970s. His most recent prominent role has been as Wilfred Mott, companion of the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. He also recorded several hit novelty records in the early 1960s and was a regular and prolific performer on Jackanory on BBC TV between 1966 and 1991.

Martin Brundle

(born 1 June 1959) is a British former racing driver from England, known as a Formula One driver and as an F1 commentator for ITV Sport from 1997 to 2008 and for the BBC from 2009.

Brundle contested the British Formula Three Championship with Ayrton Senna in 1983, finishing a close second, and the two progressed to Formula One the next year. Brundle failed to score a victory at the top level of single seaters, but he has been very successful in other disciplines. He was the 1988 World Sportscar Champion, with a record points haul, and won the 1990 Le Mans 24 hour Race for Jaguar in an XJR-12.

Jason Plato

(born 14 October 1967) is a British racing car driver currently competing in the BTCC. He is the reigning BTCC champion having previously won the series in 2001 when driving for Vauxhall. He has finished in the top 3 in the championship 8 times and jointly holds the record with Andy Rouse for the most overall race wins by any driver in history; 60 in total. He is also a presenter on motoring television series Fifth Gear.

Maxwell Alexander Fraser

(born 15 June 1957 in Brixton, London), better known as Maxi Jazz, is an English rapper. He is best known as the lead vocalist of British band Faithless.

Heikki Kovalainen

(born October 19, 1981 in Suomussalmi, Finland) is a Finnish Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, and drives for the new Lotus Racing team for the 2010 campaign.

He was supported by the Renault Driver Development programme early in his racing career, during which he won the World Series by Nissan championship and finished runner-up in the GP2 series. Renault signed him on as a full-time Formula One test driver for 2006, and then promoted him to a race seat for 2007. He gained his first podium by finishing second in the Japanese Grand Prix.

Peter Purves

(born 10 February 1939) is an English television presenter and actor.
Purves co-presented Blue Peter first with John Noakes and Valerie Singleton and then with Noakes and Lesley Judd, during the programme's so called 'golden age'. After Noakes, Purves is the second longest serving male Blue Peter presenter. He was so closely associated with the programme, "the sensible one", that he found his association difficult to shake off. Purves moved on to other jobs as a presenter including Blue Peter Special Assignment, "Stopwatch" and "We're Going Places" and then later a spell as the front man for darts events on the BBC and as presenter of the long-running BBC1 motorbike trials series Kick Start.

David Coulthard MBE

( born 27 March 1971), sometimes known as DC, is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland.

Coulthard, who was born in Dumfries and raised nearby in Twynholm, made his Formula One debut in 1994 and won 13 Grands Prix in a career spanning 15 seasons. Twice a winner in Monaco, Coulthard was team-mate to Mika Häkkinen in the Finn's two Drivers' Championship winning seasons for McLaren Mercedes before helping establish the Red Bull team.

Pam Rhodes

(born 22 September 1950 in Gillingham, Kent) is a British television presenter best known for presenting the BBC television long-running religious series Songs of Praise. She first went into TV in 1969 as programme secretary Thames TV's Today which was hosted by Eamonn Andrews, going on to become Programme Organiser for the ITV network documentary series This Week. Rhodes began her career in news journalism, being the anchor for Anglia Television’s daily evening news programme for seven years in addition to presenting network holiday and travel programmes, her own daily interview series on Lifestyle Television, Radio 2, Premier Radio and other long-term programmes for London Weekend, Thames and BFBS Television. She is well-known as an entertaining After Dinner speaker and conference host, and having compered televised recordings in venues such as Sydney Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall in London, is now often asked to compere large orchestral or musical events at symphony halls and theatres around the country.

Tommy Searle

(born June 13, 1990 in Pembury) is a British motocross racer who competed in the MX2-GP Motocross World Championship with the KTM Redbull team, managed by former world champion Stefan Everts, between 2006 and 2008. From 2009 onwards, Searle will take part in the AMA MX Lites series in the U.S.A., riding for the KTM North America team.

Alan Gow

(born 23 June 1955) is currently the Series Director and Administrator of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), Chairman of MSA (The Motor Sports Association) and President of the FIA Touring Car Commission.

Andy Priaulx MBE

(born 8 August 1973) is a British racing driver, European Touring Car Championship champion, and three times World Touring Car Championship champion. He is the only FIA Touring Car champion to win an International level championship for four consecutive years (2004 to 2007). The previous record was Roberto Ravaglia's three successive championships (1986–1988).

Allan McNish

(born 29 December 1969) is a racing driver. He is a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, most recently in 2008, and two-time American Le Mans Series champion.

Christian Horner

(born November 16, 1973), is a former race car driver. He was team principal for GP2 Series team Arden Motorsport, and is now principal for Formula One team Red Bull.

Derek Bell MBE

(born 31 October 1941) is a former racing driver from England who was extremely successful in sportscar racing, winning 5 times at Le Mans. He also raced in Formula One for the Ferrari, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno teams.

Giancarlo Fisichella

(born 14 January 1973) is an Italian racing driver. He has driven in Formula One for Minardi, Jordan, Benetton, Sauber, Renault, Force India and Ferrari.He was Ferrari's reserve driver for 2010.

John Paul Herbert

(born 25 June 1964) is a British racing driver from England. He competed in Formula One, winning three races, and also in sports cars winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1991 driving a Mazda 787B. He enjoyed much success in lower-level motor racing but never managed to achieve the same level of performance at the top level of motorsport.

Marcus Grönholm

(born February 5, 1968) is a Finnish former rally driver. Driving for Peugeot, he won the World Rally Championship in 2000 and 2002. After Peugeot withdrew from the World Rally Championship, Grönholm moved to Ford for the 2006 season and placed second in the drivers' world championship, losing the title to Sébastien Loeb by one point. The next year he again placed second, four points behind Loeb. He and his co-driver Timo Rautiainen retired from rallying after the 2007 season but returned to the championship in 2009 driving a private Subaru for a short period of time.

Mark Webber

(born 27 August 1976) is an Australian Formula One driver.

After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career.Webber began a partnership with fellow Australian Paul Stoddart, at that time owner of the European Racing Formula 3000 team, which eventually took them both into Formula One when Stoddart bought the Minardi team.

Webber made his Formula One debut in 2002, scoring Minardi's first points in three years at his and Stoddart's home race. After his first season Jaguar Racing took him on as lead driver. During two years with the generally uncompetitive team Webber several times qualified on the front two rows of the grid and outperformed his team mates. His first F1 win was with Red Bull Racing in the 2009 German Grand Prix, which followed second places at the 2009 Chinese, Turkish, and British Grands Prix. By the end of 2009, Webber had scored eight podiums, including another victory in Brazil. His eight podiums in 2009 compares to only two podiums in the first seven years of his career. He has since added ten more podiums in 2010, including victories in Spain, Monaco, Britain and Hungary. Webber finished the 2010 season in third place having led for a long period, losing out to teammate Sebastian Vettel.

Matt Neal

(born 20 December 1966) is a British motor racing driver. He won the British Touring Car Championship in 2005 and 2006. He has also won a European Touring Car Championship race.

Nicky Grist

(born 1 November 1961) is a Welsh former rally co-driver, born in Ebbw Vale. His factory team career in the World Rally Championship lasted from 1993 to 2002. He won 21 rallies and one World championship titles, with more than one driver.

Nicky’s first WRC win was in the Rally Argentina in 1993 with Juha Kankkunen, who at that time was a three times WRC champion. Nicky and Juha went on to win the 1993 WRC championship with Toyota. Nicky stayed as Juha’s co-driver until 1997 when he joined Colin McRae with the 555 Subaru World Rally Team.

Nicky remained Colin McRae’s co-driver until the Rally New Zealand 2002, during which time the pair two won 17 rallies, 27 podium finishes and gained overall 183 WRC points. Between 2002 and 2006, Nicky and Colin also competed together in a number of one off rallies.