TONY SIMPSON: A TRUE CLUBMAN COMPETITOR
Apr 01, 2020
4 minutes
By Luke Barry
Photos: Jakob Ebrey, Chicane Media
Swap Jamie Carragher and Tony Bellew for Martin Rowe and Gwyndaf Evans. Forget Liverpool’s traditional love of football and boxing; for Tony Simpson it was all about rallying.
Captivated in particular by the Formula 2 Kit Car era of the late 1990s, any front-wheel-drive naturally-aspirated rally car subsequently has Simpson hooked.
So much so that throughout his 24 years involved in motorsport, they’re all he’s ever driven competitively.
“I was a proper bobble-hatter,” he admits.
“I was going out and watching rallies and the F2 screamers were just everything to me to
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