James Allen

Quick Facts

Full Name	James Allen
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Nov 5, 1966(1966-11-05)
Age	58
Birthplace	Liverpool
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Liverpool
Horoscope	Capricorn

James Allen Biography

James Allen is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on November 5, 1966 in Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Allen was a pupil at Merchant Taylors’ School, Crosby, and student of English and Modern Languages at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, gaining a master’s degree. His father Bill raced for Lotus was a Class Winner in 1961 at Le Mans and was in the sport’s administration, serving as a Commission Chair on the RAC motor sports council.

He has been the F1 correspondent of the Financial Times newspaper since 1999.

Along with former co-commentator Martin Brundle, Allen picked up the Autosport award for best moment of the year which recognised the pair’s commentary in the closing moments of the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix. The Brazil coverage also won a third consecutive BAFTA award for the ITV team.

Allen was one of the official Formula One Management World Feed interviewers for post-qualifying and post-race, beginning this role at the 2009 British Grand Prix. He also moderated the official FIA press conference sessions with drivers and team principals during F1 race weekends.

With Nigel Mansell’s move to IndyCar in 1993, Allen was hired by ITV in 1994 to help present coverage of the season. When ITV gained the rights to broadcast the Formula One championship in 1997, he joined the team as pit lane reporter.

James Allen Net Worth

James Allen is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James Allen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

James Allen (born 5 November 1966), is a British former TV commentator and journalist, now President of Motorsport Network who worked as Formula One (F1) commentator for ITV from 2000 to 2008, and subsequently as BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator, BBC F1 Correspondent, Financial Times F1 correspondent and presenter for Ten Sport in Australia. He lives in London and has a wife, Pip and two sons, Enzo and Emerson.

Allen started his F1 career with the Brabham team in 1990, and in 1991 worked with future TV colleagues Mark Blundell and Martin Brundle. He was news editor at Autosport magazine from 1992 to 1994 and in parallel worked as F1 pit lane reporter for American network ESPN from 1993 to 1996.

With Murray Walker unable to commentate at the 2000 French Grand Prix, Allen took over as one of the main commentators alongside Martin Brundle. Walker wound down his career the next year, missing five races, all of which Allen covered. ITV had considered trying a number of guest commentators to decide who would be best suited to replace Walker, but instead opted to keep Allen on board full-time. He took over permanently after the 2001 United States Grand Prix and commentated on every subsequent Grand Prix while the sport was broadcast on ITV, winning a number of Awards. The 2007 Canadian Grand Prix was Allen’s 100th as a commentator. Allen also wrote “James Allen’s Analysis” for the ITV website. His last commentary for ITV was the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix when ITV’s F1 broadcast contract ended.

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James Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. James Allen celebrates birthday on November 5 of every year.

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