John Tipler
Johnny Tipler is a freelance writer who was born in Leicester, lived in Leeds as a child, and grew up in Chelmsford. He attended King's Ely, King Edward VI Grammar School Chelmsford, and then Southend College of Art. He studied at Stirling University and the University of East Anglia studying art history, and had a brief career as a conservator of medieval wall paintings. He had career in public relations and journalism ranging from hotel promotion to motor racing in the JPS era, but is best known as an international motoring journalist and author. He has been writing books since 1990, with 39 published on a variety of motor vehicles, including Porsche, Morgan, Jensen, TVR, Lotus, Caterham and Alfa Romeo sports cars, Land Rovers, Triumph and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, plus several on Lotus Formula 1 cars, as well as biographies of racing drivers Graham Hill, Ronnie Peterson and Ayrton Senna. He freelances for 911 & Porsche World, Classic Porsche, GT Porsche and Total 911 magazines, among others. Website: www.johnnytipler.co.uk

Works

2000 Lotus Racing Cars: Dominance, Decline and Revival, 1968-2000
2001 Lotus 25 & 33
2005 Ayrton Senna: The Team Lotus Years
2011 La Carrera Panamericana: the World's Greatest Road Race
2014 Alfa Romeo Giulia Coupé GT and GTA
2015 Porsche Carrera: the aircooled era 1953-1996

References

External links
 Johnny Tipler
 www.johnnytipler.co.uk

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Motorcycling writers

People educated at King's Ely