Dan Ripley

About Dan Ripley

Dan Ripley is an experienced motorsport journalist who has been covering F1 since 2010 while also reporting on other motor sport series such as MotoGP and the World Endurance Championship. After starting at Mail Online Sport as an exclusive live sport blogger across a range of sports, he helped carry live coverage as well as write news stories and features on F1 until leaving for GPFans in 2023, where today he acts as a co-editor while continuing to write features. As well as F1, Dan is also an expert on Premier League and international football encompassing a crossover knowledge that expands into many sports.

Areas of Expertise

Dan's expertise centres on an incredible knowledge of Formula 1 across over 30 years of watching the sport while also being a student on the history of it since the inception of the world championship in 1950. Dan can apply balanced nuance takes on many big stories in F1 using past examples to help offer valuable insight into developing stories in the sport.

With an encyclopedic understanding of F1, Dan has an excellent insight on many Formula 1 drivers past and present as well as the teams and huge figures in the paddock.

Dan looks beyond the noise of the common consensus and digs deep into stories to find the real angles if it has been overlooked.

Professional Experience

Dan has covered Formula 1 in multiple aspects since 2010, this has included visiting Silverstone for the British Grand Prix in F1 with the Williams team with a paddock pass and also covering MotoGP at the venue. Also with the Daily Mail, Dan has reported on the Le Mans 24 Hour race spending time with Nissan and their famous DeltaWing car. Dan has also interviewed F1 world champions Jenson Button and Lando Norris, as well as MotoGP world champions Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo. In addition, Dan has also interviewed the great F1 commentator Murray Walker as well as other famous F1 sporting personalities including Eddie Jordan, David Coulthard and Mark Webber.

As well as writing news articles, Dan is also proficient in writing feature articles in a variety of different ways. This includes deep dives into hot F1 topics of the moment, or a more artistic approach in building an article of one picture to celebrate all 91 of Michael Schumacher's wins. Having worked with top journalists as a live and online reporter at the Daily Mail, Dan has now taken his expertise to GPFans where he collaborates ideas with other members of the team, helping their ideas reach the maximum potential.

Verification & Transparency

Information used for reporting stories has to have a clear line of reputable source for that article to have certainty in its tone when it is published. This comes from official statements from teams, drivers or even organisations like F1 or the FIA. If this is not forthcoming, the relevant people that work for these bodies, or the people themselves, will be contacted to try and get official comment or other information we can use to back up the story.

If the information is not as concrete and is coming from another outlet, the outlet's reputation will be crucial in how the story is reported, if at all. Even then the article's tone will be based on speculation elsewhere rather than presented as fact so readers are not tricked and are free to judge the information presented to them in the most honest manner. These two styles are how facts can be separated from speculation and ensures the veracity of an article published is as clear a possible.

In the age of AI, pictures and videos that can appear on social media are also approached with caution so that they can be certified as real before reporting.