19 Facts About Steve Matchett

Steve Matchett formerly co-hosted live Formula One practices, qualifying sessions, and races alongside David Hobbs and Bob Varsha.

Steve Matchett was a columnist for the Speed Channel website and presented a series of web-based video 'chalk-talk' features in which, with photographs and a telestrator, he explains F1 engineering and technical matters.

Steve Matchett was a regular contributor and columnist to F1 Racing magazine from 1996 to 2008.

Steve Matchett was Technical Editor of the magazine from 1998 to 2008.

Steve Matchett has published a semi-autobiographical trilogy based around his years in the F1 pit lane.

Steve Matchett joined Graypaul Motors in 1986, a UK Ferrari dealership; then to a BMW dealership from 1988 to 1989.

Herbert and Steve Matchett both claimed their maiden Formula One wins in the 1995 British Grand Prix, a race perhaps made most famous for the fact that Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill crashed out of the race while battling for the lead.

Ten years later, in his closing remarks of the relevant episode of Formula 1 Decade Steve Matchett described his feelings during the closing laps of that landmark race, and how much the win had meant to him.

Brawn and Steve Matchett remained on amicable terms even after Brawn's move to Ferrari at the end of 1996 and Steve Matchett's own move into television four years later.

Steve Matchett made his television debut for Speedvision in 2000 filling in as a substitute commentator during the Canadian GP weekend while regular analysts Sam Posey and David Hobbs were at Le Mans covering the 24 hour race.

Steve Matchett joined the crew for two more races in 2000, then joined Speedvision's F1 broadcast crew full-time in 2001.

Steve Matchett remained with the network until the end of the 2012 season, at which point he joined his colleagues in moving to NBC and NBC Sports.

Steve Matchett's broadcasting niche is one of giving priority to the teams' involvement, rather than to any specific driver.

Steve Matchett describes the track's challenges to the various GP teams and describes how the mechanics prepare the 'set up' of the race cars to try and win the race.

Steve Matchett is credited with the ability to notice minor changes that the mechanics have made to the cars and for his ability to spot mechanical problems on the cars even while they are running on the circuit.

From 2003 to 2005, Steve Matchett hosted Speed Channel's Formula 1 Decade.

Since 2007, Steve Matchett has hosted an annual series of technical features for SPEED called RPM - Racing Per Steve Matchett in which he interviews key members of the Renault F1, Red Bull Racing and McLaren F1 teams, explaining to the viewers different features of modern race car design and ultra-exotic technology.

Steve Matchett emceed the four-day event alongside Mark Goodman of Sirius Satellite Radio, one of MTV's original VJs.

In 2009 Steve Matchett presented a thirty-minute show for Speed Channel called Always Ferrari, in which he visited the famous Italian marque's Maranello factory, toured the road car restoration division, the Formula 1 racing headquarters and there interviewed F1 team members including drivers Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen.