Eoin Young born 1939 is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

-born motoring journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 who was an Autocar columnist for some 30 years from 1967.
After firstly working in a bank in Timaru

Timaru

TimaruUrban AreaPopulation:27,200Extent:Former Timaru City CouncilTerritorial AuthorityName:Timaru District CouncilPopulation:42,867 Land area:2,736.54 km² Mayor:Janie AnnearWebsite:...

 he moved to the UK in 1961. He initially worked with Denny Hulme

Denny Hulme

Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team....

 for the Formula Junior series in Europe, and then in 1962 he became Bruce McLaren

Bruce McLaren

Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....

's secretary.
In 1976 he wrote Against All Odds with James Hunt

James Hunt

James Simon Wallis Hunt was a British racing driver from England who won the Formula One World Championship in . Hunt's often action packed exploits on track earned him the nickname "Hunt the Shunt." After retiring from driving, Hunt became a media commentator and businessman...

, the story of the British Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 driver's only F1 championship, and in 2003 Forza Amon! a Biography of Chris Amon

Chris Amon

Christopher Arthur Amon MBE is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix...

. His columns and articles can now be found in many publications including 'Cars for the Connoisseur' in the UK, "Victory Lane" in the USA, "NZ Classic Car" in New Zealand and "Am Klassiek" in Holland. He also writes for the web-based motor sport magazine www.pitpass.com. He now no longer lives in the UK having moved back to his native New Zealand.

Selected bibliography

• McLaren Memories
• The Amazing Summer of '55: The Year of Motor Racing's Biggest Dramas, Worst Tragedies and Greatest Victories
• Memories of the Bear: A Biography of Denny Hulme
• Jim Clark
  Jim Clark
  James "Jim" Clark, Jr OBE was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965....
  
  by Eoin Young
• Bruce McLaren: The Man and His Racing Team by Eoin Young
• James Hunt: Against All Odds by Eoin Young, James Hunt and David Hodges
• It Beats Working: My Thirty Five Years Inside Motor Racing
• Forza Amon!: A Biography of Chris Amon
• Power and Glory: 1952-73 v. 2: History of Grand Prix Motor Racing by William Court and Eoin Young