Shaun Hollamby
Shaun Scott Hollamby is a British TV Director/Producer and former racing driver and race team owner. He was the managing director of AmD Tuning, a performance tuning company and motor racing team based in West Thurrock, Essex. He also currently competes in a part-time effort in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series and Historic F3 and FFord.
In 2010–2013, Hollamby has run and driven a Volkswagen Golf in the British Touring Car Championship with various drivers for his own team AmD Tuning.
AmD then switched to a Ford Focus in the BTCC in 2014–2015 with Dave Newsham and Mike Bushell and also an Audi S3 for Nicolas Hamilton in 2015.
The following year would saw AmD ran Ollie Jackson in the Audi and Ant Whorton-Eales joined for 2017 in a second Audi. 2018 saw an expansion to also run 2x MG's alongside the Audis with Sam Smelt joining Ollie Jackson in the Audis and Rory Butcher and Tom Boardman driving the MG's.
The team ran Sam Tordoff and Rory Butcher in Honda FK2 Civic Type R's and Jake Hill and Mark Blundell in the Audi S3's. The team also ran Jake Hill and Sam Osborne in the Honda's in 2020 and Bobby Thompson and James Gornall in the Audi's under the Trade Price Cars banner.
Hollamby completed a buyout/merger with Motorbase BTCC team for the 2021 season but the agreement for Hollamby to continue as Team Principal and joint owner was changed so Hollamby chose to step down from a full time role in the BTCC.
Hollamby continued to work within the paddock as the presenter for the PITCH BTCC TV programme on the SKY channel, SportyStuff and commentated on the Porsche SuperCup world feed.
Hollamby is now TV Producer/Director for F2/F3/F1 Academy/F1 Kids/Porsche Supercup working full time for Formula One Management Ltd.
Motorsport history
- 1978–85, Karting
- 1986, Formula Vee
- 1987–88, Formula First
- 1989, Multisport
- 1990, Formula Forward
- 1997–present, TV Director/Producer for Formula One Management
- 2003–2005, Volkswagen Racing Cup
- 2008, Dunlop Sportmaxx Cup
- 2008–2010, European Time Attack
- 2010–2011, 2013 British Touring Car Championship
- 2015, British GT
- 2016, Britcar
- 2017, VW Cup and Britcar
- 2019-2020, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
- 2021 Historic F3 and FFord
Personal life
Hollamby currently lives in London and has two daughters, Josie, Lottie and grandson, Brodie. He is married to Angie and has three step children Jamie, Max and Tara.Shaun's father, Olly, was a successful racing driver, winning the 1977 and 1979 SuperVee Championships.