2013 Judging Panel
The awards will be judged by a panel of well-known experts from museums and
collections, major events, historic motor racing and the world of modern car design.
The panel comprises:
Derek Bell
Five-times Le Mans winner
Derek Bell is a five-times Le Mans winner (1975, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987), a triple Daytona 24 Hours winner (1986, 1987, 1989) and double World Sportscar Champion (1985, 1986). He was usually paired with Jacky Ickx in a Porsche 936 or Porsche 956/Porsche 962, forming one of motorsport’s most celebrated partnerships. Derek also raced in Formula One for Ferrari, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno. In 1986 he was awarded the MBE for services to motorsport.
Horst Brüning
President, FIVA
Horst Brüning is the President of the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA).
He is a patron, judge, official and sometimes competitor at many of the world's leading historic
vehicle events. Several years ago he retired from a long and successful career as an international
hotelier to focus on his life-long passion for historic vehicles. He has been active as restorer,
club member, and vintage racer since the early 1970's - most recently with an HRG and Lola Formula Jr.
Mr. Brüning was the former president of the Swedish Federation of historic vehicle clubs, and currently
serves as Vice President of the FIA International Historic Commission. Prior to his presidency at FIVA,
Horst was Vice President of the Legislative Commission and member of the FIVA Board.
Ian Callum, RDI
Director of Design, Jaguar Cars
Acknowledged as one of the world's foremost design talents, Ian Callum spent the first 12 years of his career working in Ford
Design studios, where he contributed to the creation of the Escort RS Cosworth and the Ghia Via Concept. Later, as Chief
Designer of TWR Design, he was responsible for the Vanquish and Aston Martin DB7 - the most successful Aston Martin of all
time - for which he was awarded the Jim Clark Memorial Award in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed Director of Design for Jaguar
and has since been responsible for the current Jaguar model range (XK, XF, XJ), plus the C-X75 concept car and now the exciting
all-new 2-seater sports car, the Jaguar F-Type. Ian has received 5 honorary doctorates from universities around the world.
Robert Coucher
International Editor of Octane Magazine
Robert was a founding editor of the magazine with its inception nine years ago and has grown up with classic and collector cars since childhood. Prior to editing Octane, Robert was motoring editor of Bentley magazine and a freelance motoring journalist contributing to The Daily Telegraph newspaper and other motoring magazines, as well as being editor of Classic cars magazine for a number of years. As such he had judged numerous awards and concours d’Elegance events ranging from the Louis Vuitton Concours in New York, to the Concours at the Hurlingham Club in London.
Dick Crosthwaite
Founder of historic race car restoration specialists
Crosthwaite & Gardiner
Dick Crosthwaite is the founder of Crosthwaite and Gardiner Ltd, one of the oldest and most successful historic racing car companies in the
world. Having been a pioneer in the restoration, preparation and manufacture of some of the most important racing cars and parts to grace
the planet, Dick is a respected authority on historic motor racing. One of Dick's greatest passions is the Bugatti marque, of which, he is a
leading historian. Over the years, Dick has restored Bugattis for the most discerning collectors around the world and he has collected some
fine examples of the legendary models himself.
Berthold Dörrich
Presenting Editor, Octane Germany
Berthold is a true classic car addict. His first British classic, a 1976 Triumph Spitfire turned from dream car to absolute nightmare within weeks. Even as a student, struggling to afford the classic, it didn't put him off, and he's now a passionate regularity rally competitor throughout the continent. Berthold runs one of Europe's premier advertising agencies specialising in car communications, enjoying his 1972 Porsche 911 to compensate for the hardships of owning and running his other British classics. He shares his passion with his clubmates at the world's oldest car club, the Württembergischer Automobilclub 1899, which was founded by Gottlieb Daimler, Robert Bosch and Wilhelm Maybach.
Tony Dron
British racing driver, motoring author and journalist
Having started his racing career in Formula Ford in 1968-70, Tony made a name for himself in 1970s touring cars, followed by several years in international sportscar racing. In 43 years of competition driving, he has won hundreds of events, mainly races but also several rallies, in over 40 different types of car, in recent years driving some of the greatest historic machinery. Advised in 1968 by former Grand Prix driver and writer, the late Innes Ireland, Tony also took up motoring journalism. He was a road test writer for Motor magazine for three years and later edited Classic Cars for over a decade. He now writes mainly for Octane magazine.
Ed Gilbertson
Chief Judge emeritus for Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and Palm Beach Cavallino Classic
Ed Gilbertson is Chief Judge Emeritus for both the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and the Palm Beach Cavallino Classic. He is also Chief Judge Emeritus for the Ferrari Club of America, Founder/Chairman Emeritus of the International Advisory Council for Preservation of the Ferrari Automobile (IAC/PFA), and has been a committee member for the Ferrari 250 GTO and Alfa Romeo 8C reunion tours. He is Senior Advisor to the Historic Vehicle Association and a member of the International Advisory Board for the FIVA Technical Commission. Ed is also a member of the Shelby American, Austin-Healey, and Early Ford V-8 clubs. He is a retired investment management professional who has been married to his car enthusiast wife Sherry for 40 years.
McKeel Hagerty
Chief Executive Officer of Hagerty
McKeel Hagerty restored his first car a 1967 Porsche 911S at age 13, igniting a passion for collector cars that has propelled him to the heights of the industry and made him one of its fiercest protectors. Not only does he participate in the world’s greatest collector car events, including the Mille Miglia, the Colorado Grand, etc., he also serves on numerous boards, advisory groups and judges at a number of Concours. McKeel helped establish the Collectors Foundation and the Historic Vehicle Association. He also publishes Hagerty magazine and appears regularly as a national media resource.
Simon Kidston
Founder, Kidston SA
Simon is the nephew of 1920s ‘Bentley Boy’ Commander Glen Kidston. He started his career
in the auction department at Coys in London, and was running the department three years later.
In 1996 he left to co-found Brooks (now Bonhams) Europe in Geneva and over the next decade
developed high-profile auctions around the globe. Early in 2006 Simon announced he was
branching out on his own to found Kidston SA, a consultancy to aspiring and high-level
collectors, which has become synonymous with Private Treaty sales of the world’s rarest
motor cars. Simon judges at Pebble Beach and is the multilingual commentator of the Mille
Miglia and the Villa d’Este concours.
Jay Leno
TV presenter, automotive magazine columnist and car collector
Before Jay Leno became the host of the top-rated 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno',
he honed his comedy in clubs all over the USA. When not presenting his TV show, he
is an automotive magazine columnist and also an author (he has written a number of
books, including two New York Times best-selling children's books). In the motoring
world, however, Jay Leno is best-known for his love of all things automotive, and as
an enthusiastic and highly knowledgeable private collector. From Stanley Steamers to
Duesenbergs to McLarens, Jay and his collection are fixtures in the Southern California
area and can often be spotted out for weekend rides and the occasional breakdown on
the side of the road. As a whole, the collection spans 100 years of automotive history.
The oldest cars are a 1906 Baker electric car and a 1906 Stanley Steamer, while the newest
is a 2006 Corvette. The collection also has a number of rare cars, such as a Monteverde,
a Bugatti Atlantic, and a turbine motorcycle.
Nick Mason
Historic Racer, collector, and Octane columnist
After leaving school Nick went on to the Regent Street Polytechnic, where he spent five years training as an Architect. During this period however, further studies were interrupted when he became a founding member of the successful rock band Pink Floyd. As Nick says "I haven't managed to get back yet...." The band has been playing now for over thirty years, and still enjoys world wide acclaim. In conjunction with his musical career he has freely pursued another great love - motor sport - a lifeline interest that he inherited from his father, the documentary maker Bill Mason. Nick has raced regularly for over thirty years, including competing in five Le Mans races. Also an automotive writer, he has a considerable collection of racing cars spanning the history of motor sport from 1901 to the present day, and through his company Ten Tenths he provides historic race and road cars to the film, TV and photographic industries.
Jochen Mass
Racing driver, Le Mans winner and F1 commentator
After leaving school at 17, Jochen Mass served in the Merchant Navy for almost three years. But he had a fascination with motor racing and the characters and cars involved, and got behind the wheel of a racecar — an Alfa GTA 1000 — for the first time at the age of 21, in 1968. In 1970 he became a works driver for Ford, racing Capris, and went on to win the German and European Championships. Jochen subsequently moved into F2 and then F1, with Surtees, McLaren, ATS, Arrows and Ram March. He won the Spanish Grand Prix in 1975. From 1976 to 1987 he was a Porsche works driver, racing mainly with Jacky Ickx. He secured several endurance World titles during that period and from 1988-91 he raced for Sauber-Mercedes, winning the Le Mans 24 Hours with Stanley Dickens and Manuel Reuter.
He has raced in IMCA, IROC, trucks, Paris Dakar, and also raced a ballon across the Atlantic - which led to an emergency landing in mid-ocean - and sailed across the Atlantic from Camden (Maine) to the Balearic Islands. He still competes in the Panamericana and the Goodwood Revival, and demonstrates the incredible Silver Arrows from the iconic Mercedes Vintage Collection. And for the past eight years he has been a commentator for RTLÕs Grand Prix broadcasts.
Bruce Meyer
Founding chairman of Petersen Automotive Museum
Bruce Meyer is the founding Chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum and founder and Chairman of the Checkered Flag 200, the Museum's most active and charitable support group. A 'car guy's car guy', he is known and respected by all in the industry, and serves on the Board of the Nethercutt Collection, the Mullin Automotive Museum, the Le May Museum and the Steering Committee of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegnce. And he is a renowned collector of historic winning racing cars, from Le Mans to Indy to Bonneville.
Lady Susie Moss
Wife of racing legend Sir Stirling Moss
Susie first met Stirling when she was five years old, when he used to stay at her parents home
in Hong Kong. On moving to London at the end of the 1960s the friendship developed and eventually
they married in 1980. They do everything together, including rallies and historic racing, of which
Susie takes an active part and is very knowledgeable she can even change the ratios on a gearbox!
Stirling and Susie run the business and the home together and are very seldom apart, and the phrase
"behind every great man there is an even greater woman" was created with her in mind!
Dr Franz-Josef Paefgen
VW Group head of Classics activities
Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen recently assumed responsibility for the global coordination of
the Volkswagen Group’s Classic activities. Dr. Paefgen was latterly Chairman of Bentley,
President of Bugatti and General Representative of Volkswagen AG for Motorsport and Research,
and is a renowned authority on the historical automobile scene. He started his career with
the Volkswagen Group in 1980. From 1995, he was responsible for technical development as a
Member of the Board of Management of Audi AG, before becoming Deputy Chairman and Speaker
of the Board of Management in 1997. In 1998, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of
Management of Audi and President and CEO of Lamborghini S.p.A. He headed Bentley from
2002 and Bugatti from March 2007. In 2006, Dr. Paefgen was presented with the ‘Spirit
of Le Mans’ award by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest for his commitment to racing sport
in Le Mans. He holds a doctorate in engineering.
Patrick Peter
Historic event organiser
Patrick Peter has been the driving force behind some of the world’s leading historic motorsport events since 1982, when he developed the Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or Lanvin, one of the first high-end historic car meetings. From endurance racing to hill climbs, road runs and rally stages, Patrick has developed events that cover all aspects of historic motorsport, and which have brought famous drivers and cars together from across the world, in locations all over the globe. Events and race series that he has either created or taken to new heights include the Tour Auto, Tour de Espana, Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge, Le Mans Classic, Classic Endurance racing, Le Mans Classic Japan, Grand Prix de Pau Historique, Gstaad Classic Audemars Piguet and Trofeo Nastro Rosso.
Murray Smith
Historic car collector and racing driver
Murray Smith has been around cars all his life, competing, managing teams, developing race cars, collecting, and creating events. Over the years, Smith has owned a Maserati 250F, a Porsche 956, a Frazer Nash Le Mans, a Packard 160 Woody, and two Lotus 15s. He also had a Ferrari SWB as his only car, which he parKed in the street outside his Manhattan apartment. Formerly a senior executive in one of the world's leading advertising agencies, he Is a member of both the British Racing Drivers' Club and the Road Racing Drivers Club. He was the founder of the Louis Vuitton Classic at Rockefeller Centre, and is currently Chairman of the Lime Rock Historic Festival. He has also been instrumental in generating substantial commercial sponsorship for motoring events. Murray remains a consultant on motorsports and motoring to several major corporations and a contributor to prominent historic motoring publications.
Peter Stevens
Internationally renowned automobile designer
Peter Stevens is one of the UK’s best-known and most sought-after international transportation and product designers. He has won numerous honours for his work, which includes creating road and race cars for McLaren, Lamborghini, BMW, Lotus, Prodrive, TWR, among others. Peter’s cars are in automotive collections across the world, and have been shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as London’s Design Museum. He has been Visiting Professor of Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art and twice nominated as the UK’s Prince Philip Designer of the Year. Among Peter’s best known road and race designs are the McLaren F1 road car, the 1999 Le Mans-winning BMW, the Lotus Elan, the Lotus Esprit revision, Jaguar’s XJR-15, and the Subaru Impreza P1 road car as well as the world rally series-winning Subaru Impreza WRCs. Before the demise of MG Rover in 2005, Peter’s MG TF was the best-selling sports car in the UK. It was voted ‘the world’s most beautiful cabriolet’ in 2003.
Duncan Wiltshire
Chairman Motor Racing Legends and co-founder of the Donington Historic Festival
Duncan Wiltshire is Chairman of Motor Racing Legends, organiser of a number of highly prestigious historic motor racing series including the Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy, the Stirling Moss Trophy and the JD Classics Challenge that run at circuits across Europe. Since 2001, Motor Racing Legends has run the Le Mans Legend race in support of the Le Mans 24 Hour race. Duncan is also Managing Director of Historic Promotions Ltd, and a co-founder of the Donington Historic Festival. Having raced a vintage Bentley for the last 20 years, Duncan sits on the Competitions Committee of the Bentley Drivers Club, and is a member of the Motoring Committee of the Royal Automobile Club. Duncan is Chairman of the Panel of Judges for the International Historic Motoring Awards.