Alex MacDowall
| Alex MacDowall | |
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Alex MacDowall Racing Driver 2014.
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| Nationality | British |
| Born |
22 January 1991 Carlisle (England) |
| FIA World Endurance Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2014 |
| Current team | Aston Martin Racing |
| Car no. | 99 |
| Starts | 15 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Poles | 4 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| Best finish | 7th in 2015 |
| Previous series | |
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2013 2010–2011 2009 2007–2009 2007 2005–2006 |
World Touring Car Championship Ginetta GT Supercup British Touring Car Championship Spanish SEAT Supercopa Renault Clio Cup UK SEAT Cupra Championship T Cars |
| BTCC record | |
| Teams | Silverline Chevrolet |
| Drivers championships |
0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podium finishes | 5 |
| Poles | 2 |
| Fastest laps | 2 |
| Debut season | 2010 |
| Best championship position | 9th (2011) |
| Final season (2011) position | 9th (100 points) |
Alexander "Alex" Hay MacDowall (born 22 January 1991) is a British auto racing driver. He is currently competing in the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season for Aston Martin Racing.
MacDowall was born in Carlisle. He began his racing career in T Cars in 2005, and remained there for 2006. In 2007 he stepped up to the Renault Clio Cup with Total Control Racing, finishing 32nd overall. He then finished third in the end of year Winter series. In 2008 he improved in the main series to finish seventh overall, and finished third once again in the Winter series. In 2009 he took four victories and finished as runner-up to Phil Glew.
MacDowall's 2009 Clio Cup performances impressed top British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) teams Motorbase Performance, RML and West Surrey Racing, who gave him tests over the winter break ahead of the 2010 season. In March 2010 it was announced that MacDowall would race a Chevrolet Cruze for the RML-run Silverline Chevrolet factory-supported team, as teammate to Jason Plato. In a wet qualifying session at Snetterton he became the youngest polesitter in the championship's history but the car's gearlever broke as he changed up into second gear at the start of the first race. He failed to finish in the points in either of the other two races. His rookie year was a success though, with two podiums, two pole positions and a fastest lap en route to 10th overall in the championship. Macdowall continued with Chevrolet in the British Touring Car Championship for 2011, ending the season 9th in the standings with 100 points and 3 podium finishes.
In February 2012 it was announced that MacDowall would race for bamboo-engineering in the WTCC for the 2012 season where his team mate would be Pasquale Di Sabatino. He scored points in his first race at Monza and again in the second race of the day. He left Italy in a three way tie for the Yokohama Drivers' Trophy championship lead. He took his first win in the Yokohama Independents' Trophy at the Race of Austria. Di Sabatino was replaced by Michel Nykjær for the Race of Brazil and MacDowall missed out on an independent win to Nykjær in race one. His result in race one combined with two non-scores for Yokohama Trophy rival Franz Engstler elevated him to fourth in the standings, 12 points behind Stefano D'Aste. He took his second independent win of the season in race one of the Race of Japan. He went into the final race weekend in Macau with a slim chance of taking the Yokohama Trophy title. In qualifying he secured the reversed grid pole position for race two; at the start of the race he lost the lead to Norbert Michelisz but passed him again to take the lead. Both drivers were then overtaken by Alain Menu and MacDowall dropped to fourth when a tap from Yvan Muller spun MacDowall into the barriers after exiting the high speed Mandarin corner. Muller later apologised for the incident but no penalties were issued to either driver. MacDowall dropped back down to fifth in the Yokohama Trophy standings and was classified in 10th in the drivers' championship, tied on points with Mehdi Bennani but behind on countback due to Bennani's podium at the Race of Hungary.
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