About James Allen (journalist)
James Allen is a British former TV commentator and journalist who is the president, Autosport Business, and F1 of Motorsport Network. He worked as Formula One commentator for ITV from 2000 to 2008, and subsequently as BBC Radio 5 Live's Formula One commentator, Formula One correspondent for the BBC and the Financial Times, and presenter for Ten Sport in Australia. He presents the podcast James Allen on F1 on the Autosport podcast network. Allen has been a trustee of the Grand Prix Trust, F1's benevolent fund, for over 25 years. He won the competition, with a score of 23 points. Allen has written four books, the first of which was his ghost-written autobiography of Nigel Mansell published by HarperCollins. In this capacity in April 2011, he wrote the first story revealing the plan to create a new all-electric racing series that became known as Formula E.
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