Tony Dron is a British racing driver as well as being a motoring author and journalist.
Racing history
Dron is best known for racingTouring Cars in the 1970s and for competing in Porsches at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the early 1980s, including a class win at Le Mans in 1982 in a Porsche 934, and driving a Group C in 1983. He was a full-time professional race driver from 1974–79, for teams that included British Leyland, Unipart and Alfa UK, but his career as a racer first began in May 1968 and continued for a full 43 years. Dron has achieved a remarkable range of victories, winningevents in 24 makes and 41 models of car. The total number of wins is not known but is well into the hundreds. Race wins have been recorded in: Alfa Romeo: 1600GT Junior, TZ1 Allard: JR Aston Martin: DB4 Austin: Metro Austin-Healey: 3000, 100/4 Bentley: 3-litre BMW: Counties 3 Series, M3 Caterham: Seven Chevrolet: Camaro Datsun: 240Z Ferrari: 330LMB, 246S Fiat: 128 1300GT Coupé Ford: Escort Mexico, Falcon, Zephyr Mk II, fwd RS2000 Jaguar: Mk 1, Mk 2, D-type Lister: Jaguar 'Knobbly' Lotus: Mk 9 Lola: Mk6GT Mazda: 323 MG: Maestro, MGB Morgan: Plus 8 Porsche: 924, 924GTR, 911RSL, 928S2, 928S4, 930, 934, '935', 911 Carrera 2 Renault: 5 Triumph: TR4, Dolomite Sprint TVR: Tuscan In recent years, he has also been seen racing an enormous variety of historic cars, including the Le Mans-winning 1959 Aston Martin DBR1 and the 1960 Ferrari 246S Dino. In the Ferrari, Dron won the Sussex Trophy at the Goodwood Revival for three consecutive years. Having competed numerous times in the modern Nürburgring 24 Hours, he is known to be a highly experienced competitor on the old Nordschleife, where historic racing victories include an outright win in the 1996 Eifel Klassik in a 1963 Ferrari 330LMB, from pole position in a field of 180 cars. Dron retired from race driving in 2011, although he still works as a motoring journalist and test driver for Octane magazine.
Publications
Dron writes a regular column in Octane. He is the author of several books including Porsche: Engineering for Excellence and Alan Mann – A Life of Chance.
