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Charlie Cox - Top Gear Australia host
Thursday, 29 May, 2008
Top Gear Australia host Charlie Cox
Charlie Cox has combined his two passions of broadcasting and motor racing and is currently presenter and commentator for Moto GP on the BBC.
Born in Sydney in 1960, Charlie started his broadcast journalism career as a cadet at 2GB. He worked as a newsreader at 2WS and 2UE before returning to 2GB as News Director in the mid 1980s. He was appointed National News Director for the Macquarie Network and Program Director for 2GB, before taking on the role as General Manager in 1989. During this time, Charlie started his love affair with racing cars.
He moved to London in 1990 to head London’s LBC radio station and race cars.
Receiving the Newcomer of the Year award in the 1991 Porsche Cup, Charlie went on to win three British titles and ran his own team in the British Touring Car Championships before a spectacular crash nearly ended his life in 1995.
It was during his recovery that BBC trialled him as a touring car co-commentator and he was eventually offered the role of full time motoring co-commentator in 1997.
Returning to racing cars in 1996, Charlie continued to juggle racing and his commentating commitments with the BBC until 2001 when he retired from racing.
Charlie was integral in setting up the broadcast division of the Daily Mail Group and is today a director of six different media companies in the UK and Australia.
He names the 1966 XP Falcon Futura as his first car and says there is not one ultimate car, that “you need a portfolio to cover all the eventualities.” These days he drives a Porsche GT2, a Mercedes S500, a Ducati Superbike and a Harley Davidson.
A word from the producers, “Charlie Cox made the cut because of his international experience, he's a proven survivor of spectacular crashes (in case, God forbid, we have to have one) and he has a great supply of one-liners when he's commentating Moto GPs around the world. Like this, when he talked about Superbike Racer James Toseland at the Assen GP : "He's got such bad luck that if he fell into a bucket of boobs, he'd still come up sucking his thumb.”
Charlie Cox has combined his two passions of broadcasting and motor racing and is currently presenter and commentator for Moto GP on the BBC.
Born in Sydney in 1960, Charlie started his broadcast journalism career as a cadet at 2GB. He worked as a newsreader at 2WS and 2UE before returning to 2GB as News Director in the mid 1980s. He was appointed National News Director for the Macquarie Network and Program Director for 2GB, before taking on the role as General Manager in 1989. During this time, Charlie started his love affair with racing cars.
He moved to London in 1990 to head London’s LBC radio station and race cars.
Receiving the Newcomer of the Year award in the 1991 Porsche Cup, Charlie went on to win three British titles and ran his own team in the British Touring Car Championships before a spectacular crash nearly ended his life in 1995.
It was during his recovery that BBC trialled him as a touring car co-commentator and he was eventually offered the role of full time motoring co-commentator in 1997.
Returning to racing cars in 1996, Charlie continued to juggle racing and his commentating commitments with the BBC until 2001 when he retired from racing.
Charlie was integral in setting up the broadcast division of the Daily Mail Group and is today a director of six different media companies in the UK and Australia.
He names the 1966 XP Falcon Futura as his first car and says there is not one ultimate car, that “you need a portfolio to cover all the eventualities.” These days he drives a Porsche GT2, a Mercedes S500, a Ducati Superbike and a Harley Davidson.
A word from the producers, “Charlie Cox made the cut because of his international experience, he's a proven survivor of spectacular crashes (in case, God forbid, we have to have one) and he has a great supply of one-liners when he's commentating Moto GPs around the world. Like this, when he talked about Superbike Racer James Toseland at the Assen GP : "He's got such bad luck that if he fell into a bucket of boobs, he'd still come up sucking his thumb.”
Charlie Cox has combined his two passions of broadcasting and motor racing and is currently presenter and commentator for Moto GP on the BBC.
Born in Sydney in 1960, Charlie started his broadcast journalism career as a cadet at 2GB. He worked as a newsreader at 2WS and 2UE before returning to 2GB as News Director in the mid 1980s. He was appointed National News Director for the Macquarie Network and Program Director for 2GB, before taking on the role as General Manager in 1989. During this time, Charlie started his love affair with racing cars.
He moved to London in 1990 to head London’s LBC radio station and race cars.
Receiving the Newcomer of the Year award in the 1991 Porsche Cup, Charlie went on to win three British titles and ran his own team in the British Touring Car Championships before a spectacular crash nearly ended his life in 1995.
It was during his recovery that BBC trialled him as a touring car co-commentator and he was eventually offered the role of full time motoring co-commentator in 1997.
Returning to racing cars in 1996, Charlie continued to juggle racing and his commentating commitments with the BBC until 2001 when he retired from racing.
Charlie was integral in setting up the broadcast division of the Daily Mail Group and is today a director of six different media companies in the UK and Australia.
He names the 1966 XP Falcon Futura as his first car and says there is not one ultimate car, that “you need a portfolio to cover all the eventualities.” These days he drives a Porsche GT2, a Mercedes S500, a Ducati Superbike and a Harley Davidson.
A word from the producers, “Charlie Cox made the cut because of his international experience, he's a proven survivor of spectacular crashes (in case, God forbid, we have to have one) and he has a great supply of one-liners when he's commentating Moto GPs around the world. Like this, when he talked about Superbike Racer James Toseland at the Assen GP : "He's got such bad luck that if he fell into a bucket of boobs, he'd still come up sucking his thumb.”
Source: SBS
Born in Sydney in 1960, Charlie started his broadcast journalism career as a cadet at 2GB. He worked as a newsreader at 2WS and 2UE before returning to 2GB as News Director in the mid 1980s. He was appointed National News Director for the Macquarie Network and Program Director for 2GB, before taking on the role as General Manager in 1989. During this time, Charlie started his love affair with racing cars.
He moved to London in 1990 to head London’s LBC radio station and race cars.
Receiving the Newcomer of the Year award in the 1991 Porsche Cup, Charlie went on to win three British titles and ran his own team in the British Touring Car Championships before a spectacular crash nearly ended his life in 1995.
It was during his recovery that BBC trialled him as a touring car co-commentator and he was eventually offered the role of full time motoring co-commentator in 1997.
Returning to racing cars in 1996, Charlie continued to juggle racing and his commentating commitments with the BBC until 2001 when he retired from racing.
Charlie was integral in setting up the broadcast division of the Daily Mail Group and is today a director of six different media companies in the UK and Australia.
He names the 1966 XP Falcon Futura as his first car and says there is not one ultimate car, that “you need a portfolio to cover all the eventualities.” These days he drives a Porsche GT2, a Mercedes S500, a Ducati Superbike and a Harley Davidson.
A word from the producers, “Charlie Cox made the cut because of his international experience, he's a proven survivor of spectacular crashes (in case, God forbid, we have to have one) and he has a great supply of one-liners when he's commentating Moto GPs around the world. Like this, when he talked about Superbike Racer James Toseland at the Assen GP : "He's got such bad luck that if he fell into a bucket of boobs, he'd still come up sucking his thumb.”
Charlie Cox has combined his two passions of broadcasting and motor racing and is currently presenter and commentator for Moto GP on the BBC.
Born in Sydney in 1960, Charlie started his broadcast journalism career as a cadet at 2GB. He worked as a newsreader at 2WS and 2UE before returning to 2GB as News Director in the mid 1980s. He was appointed National News Director for the Macquarie Network and Program Director for 2GB, before taking on the role as General Manager in 1989. During this time, Charlie started his love affair with racing cars.
He moved to London in 1990 to head London’s LBC radio station and race cars.
Receiving the Newcomer of the Year award in the 1991 Porsche Cup, Charlie went on to win three British titles and ran his own team in the British Touring Car Championships before a spectacular crash nearly ended his life in 1995.
It was during his recovery that BBC trialled him as a touring car co-commentator and he was eventually offered the role of full time motoring co-commentator in 1997.
Returning to racing cars in 1996, Charlie continued to juggle racing and his commentating commitments with the BBC until 2001 when he retired from racing.
Charlie was integral in setting up the broadcast division of the Daily Mail Group and is today a director of six different media companies in the UK and Australia.
He names the 1966 XP Falcon Futura as his first car and says there is not one ultimate car, that “you need a portfolio to cover all the eventualities.” These days he drives a Porsche GT2, a Mercedes S500, a Ducati Superbike and a Harley Davidson.
A word from the producers, “Charlie Cox made the cut because of his international experience, he's a proven survivor of spectacular crashes (in case, God forbid, we have to have one) and he has a great supply of one-liners when he's commentating Moto GPs around the world. Like this, when he talked about Superbike Racer James Toseland at the Assen GP : "He's got such bad luck that if he fell into a bucket of boobs, he'd still come up sucking his thumb.”
Charlie Cox has combined his two passions of broadcasting and motor racing and is currently presenter and commentator for Moto GP on the BBC.
Born in Sydney in 1960, Charlie started his broadcast journalism career as a cadet at 2GB. He worked as a newsreader at 2WS and 2UE before returning to 2GB as News Director in the mid 1980s. He was appointed National News Director for the Macquarie Network and Program Director for 2GB, before taking on the role as General Manager in 1989. During this time, Charlie started his love affair with racing cars.
He moved to London in 1990 to head London’s LBC radio station and race cars.
Receiving the Newcomer of the Year award in the 1991 Porsche Cup, Charlie went on to win three British titles and ran his own team in the British Touring Car Championships before a spectacular crash nearly ended his life in 1995.
It was during his recovery that BBC trialled him as a touring car co-commentator and he was eventually offered the role of full time motoring co-commentator in 1997.
Returning to racing cars in 1996, Charlie continued to juggle racing and his commentating commitments with the BBC until 2001 when he retired from racing.
Charlie was integral in setting up the broadcast division of the Daily Mail Group and is today a director of six different media companies in the UK and Australia.
He names the 1966 XP Falcon Futura as his first car and says there is not one ultimate car, that “you need a portfolio to cover all the eventualities.” These days he drives a Porsche GT2, a Mercedes S500, a Ducati Superbike and a Harley Davidson.
A word from the producers, “Charlie Cox made the cut because of his international experience, he's a proven survivor of spectacular crashes (in case, God forbid, we have to have one) and he has a great supply of one-liners when he's commentating Moto GPs around the world. Like this, when he talked about Superbike Racer James Toseland at the Assen GP : "He's got such bad luck that if he fell into a bucket of boobs, he'd still come up sucking his thumb.”
Source: SBS
