Jens "McGonigle" Lindblad
SimHQ Motorsports Editor

Jens C. Lindblad alias ”McGonigle” was born in Copenhagen in 1962. After spending the formative years of his life and serving for a short spell in the RDAF as a private 1st class somewhere else in Denmark, he returned to the capital 20 years after his birth. No one took much notice.

Always a huge fan of motorcars, as a child he liked to sit in real cars saying brrrrrrrrm and going on long imaginary drives.

Formula 1 and Le Mans was already a huge attraction for the youngster in the early seventies, sadly the media coverage then was sparse, and news items were relegated to the latest sports news, if indeed there were any mentionings at all.

These days the phone is off the hook, and the beaker always full with coffee (or something stronger) when the yearly Le Mans is being run. Sadly, when Formula 1 is being shown, he tends to catch up on his sleep.

Being a late PC-bloomer, the first PC was a P3-500MHz. Of course this meant that a lot of ground had to be covered in a short time: Of the first titles that were sampled, GPL has stayed and survived on his hard disk to this day, and Jens served as an instructor with the GPL:W Driving School during the school’s existence.

EA’s F1 series followed, as did the Nascar Racing titles from Papyrus Design Group. Rallying also has his interest. Rally Trophy and Richard Burns Rally according to Jens, are the best you can get.

In flight sims Jens’ all-time favorite is Rowans´ Battle of Britain, confessing very much to being only casually and fleetingly interested in anything that uses jet-propulsion.

The nickname "McGonigle" was chosen in honor of W.C. Fields. They don’t make characters like that anymore. And if they did, such characters would be banned.

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