Jeff Carter (b1964)
JEFFREY Stuart MacLean Carter was born in Bristol and grew up in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
He joined the RAF in 1982 and moved to Grantham in November 1990 with wife Julie, from the north of Scotland, following his second posting to RAF Cottesmore in Rutland where he served as an electronics engineer on Tornado Flight Simulators.
On leaving the RAF in 1996 after 14 years’ service he changed his career and, as a keen photographer, set up MacLean Photographic.
This led to Jeff becoming staff photographer at the Grantham Journal in 1998, when Pete Dean MBE retired after 45 years at the paper. Jeff spent the next two years working alongside Chief Photographer Gerry Wright covering the large area from Billingborough to Bingham and Newark to Bourne.
However his dream was to work in motorsport, so he started writing features and taking photographs for various national magazines and newspapers.
In 2000 he left the Grantham Journal to become the Press Officer for the European Formula Palmer Audi Championship. A move to Rockingham Motor Speedway in 2001 as the Press and PR Manager led to further opportunities in the industry running the press office for high profile events run at the circuit.
In 2006 international motorsport beckoned with positions at the British Formula 3 International Series, followed by his first job with motorsports governing body, the FIA, running the media office for the GT3 European Championship in 2009.
A year later Jeff moved on to his first world championship, the FIA GT1 World Championship. Two years of travelling with this sportscar series saw Jeff moved up to his current position of Media Delegate for the FIA World Endurance Championship, which includes the world famous 24 Hours of Le Mans.
After 22 years living in Grantham, first in Harlaxton Road and latterly in Harrowby Road, Jeff and his family – wife Julie and daughter Kate – moved north to Dunbar in East Lothian.
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