Guild Awards 2013 – The Winners
The much-anticipated event at the exclusive venue saw Guild members welcome sponsors, leading members of the automotive public relations industry, motorsport stars, up-and-coming writers and even royalty, to mark the presentation of awards to writers, editors, broadcasters, bloggers and photographers for their work undertaken in 2013. Among those who were on hand to congratulate the winners were His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, The Hon Ralph Montagu, BTCC’s Andrew Jordan, Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum, Michael Quinn – grandson of Sir William Lyons – and Tom Hunt, son of legendary racer James Hunt.
For 2013 there were more prizes than ever, representing a wider diversity of activities undertaken by motoring journalists today. New for this year was the Skoda Video Award, while the Mercedes-Benz Award for the Montagu of Beaulieu Trophy was restructured. Winners received cash and trophies – and Commended citations were made in many categories. Prize money totalled more than £20,000.
The Guild also presented its prestigious Driver and Rider of the Year awards, chosen by its own motorsport experts. These went to British Touring Car Champion Andrew Jordan and World Speedway Champion Tai Woffinden respectively. Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum received the President’s Trophy from GoMW President Nick Mason, while His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent was awarded The Guild of Motoring Writers’ brand new Special Award for Contribution to Motoring supported by Kia Motors UK.
The evening’s most coveted prize, the flagship Renault UK/GoMW Journalist of the Year award, is bestowed on those judged to have made the most outstanding journalistic effort in any medium during the past 12 months. For the second year running, a chance at the title was opened up to anyone in the industry, not only Guild members. Read on to see who won this and all the other GoMW accolades…
The full list of 2013 Guild of Motoring Writers award winners:
AA Environment
Winner: Ben Oliver | Commended: Paul Barker
Audi Photography
Winner (General): Matt Howell | Commended: Martyn Goddard | Winner (Motorsport): James Moy | Commended: Alisdair Cusick, Jakob Ebrey
Automotive PR Consumer Journalist of the Year
WInner: David Williams | Commended: James Ruppert
Bentley Motors International
Winner: Alex Cox | Commended: Ben Oliver
BCA Feature Writer of the Year
Winner: Maggie Barry | Commended: George Barrow
Cummins Commercial Vehicle Writer of the Year
Winner: James Scoltock | Commended: Richard Simpson
Headlineauto Young Writer of the Year
Winner: Lewis Kingston | Commended: Greg MacLeman, Danny Hewitt
IAM Safety Award in memory of Christopher Bullock MBE
Winner: Bruce Grant-Braham | Commended: Chris Knapman, David Williams
Phil Llewellin Student of the Year Sponsored by CAR
Winner: Max Prince
Sir William Lyons Award Sponsored by Jaguar
Winner: Ciaran O’Donnell
Anderson Market Engineering Automotive Technology
Winner: Brian Weatherley
Mercedes-Benz Award for the Montagu of Beaulieu Trophy
1st – Ray Hutton | 2nd – Roy Smith | 3rd – Peter Higham
Newspress New Media
Winner: Chris Knapman
Peugeot Motorsport Cup
Winner: Alistair Weaver | Commended: Jim McGill
PFPR Editor of the Year
Winner: Dan Trent | Commended: Danny Hopkins
President’s Trophy
Winner: Ian Callum
Prova PR Business Writer
Winner: Mark Bursa | Commended: John Maslen
Renault UK/GoMW Journalist of the Year
1st – Hilton Holloway | 2nd – Ben Oliver | 3rd – Jim Holder
RM Auctions Classic Writer of the Year
Winner: Tony Dron | Commended: David Burgess-Wise, Dave Richards
Skoda Design Award
Wnner: Hilton Holloway
SEAT Breakthrough Blogger of the Year
WInner: Chris Auty
Skoda Video Award
Winner: Alex Goy | Commended: Ian Dickson
GoMW Special Award for Contribution to Motoring supported by Kia Motors UK
HRH Prince Michael of Kent
Congratulations to all those named above, and the Guild is particularly grateful to all existing and new sponsors for their support in 2013.
