Paul Dumbrell

Paul Dumbrell
Paul Dumbrell at the 2010 Clipsal 500 Adelaide
Nationality	Australian
Born	1 September 1982 (1982-09) (age 34) Melbourne, Victoria
Supercars Record
Car number	88
Current team	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Series championships	0
Races	285
Race wins	5
Podium finishes	9
Pole positions	4
2016 Championship position	30th (555 pts)

Paul Dumbrell (born 1 September, 1982) is an Australian business executive and racing driver. He currently competes in the Dunlop Series, driving the No. 88 Holden VE Commodore for Eggleston Motorsport. Dumbrell also drives for Triple Eight Race Engineering as a co-driver alongside Jamie Whincup in the Pirtek Enduro Cup series.

Son of former racing driver Garry Dumbrell, Paul Dumbrell started racing in karts in 1996 and by the end of 1997 Dumbrell was looking to further his racing. He was educated at Xavier College in Kew, Melbourne and resides in Melbourne, Australia. He competed in the Australian Sprint Kart National Championships in April 1998 and then attended the Jim Russell International School of Racing in England. During the course, Dumbrell had his first experience in a racing car, a Formula Vauxhall. At age 15 he was the youngest in the class and even though he was the fastest graduate from the school, he was ineligible for the final race, for which drivers had to be 16.

On returning to Australia he looked to do a couple of races in Formula Ford but broke his hip when hit by a car while training on his mountain bike. This injury prevented him from racing for 8 weeks and put an end to any chance of running a Formula Ford. At the end of 1998 he entered his first production car race, the GT Production three-hour at Bathurst in a Subaru WRX, but his race ended with mechanical failure. For the 1999 season he drove a Formula Holden in the Australian Drivers' Championship, and had his first race in the V8 Supercar Championship Series in August 1999 at Symmons Plains, in Tasmania.