Alex MacDowall

Alex MacDowall MacDowall at the Brands Hatch Indy round of the 2011 British Touring Car Championship season. Nationality British Born (1991-01-22) 22 January 1991 Carlisle (England) 2013 World Touring Car Championship Debut season 2012 Current team bamboo-engineering Car no. 9 Starts 34 Wins 0 Poles 0 Fastest laps 2 Best finish 11th in 2012 Previous series 2010–2011 2009 2007–2009 2007 2005–2006 BTCC 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 in Carlisle) is a British auto racing driver. He is currently competing in the World Touring Car Championship for bamboo-engineering.

Racing career

Early career

MacDowall 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.

British Touring Car Championship

Silverline Chevrolet (2010–2011)

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 11th 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.

World Touring Car Championship

bamboo-engineering (2012–)

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 in the Yokohama Trophy standings and was classified as eleventh in the drivers' championship, tied on points with Mehdi Bennani but behind on countback due to Bennani's podium at the Race of Hungary.

MacDowall stayed with Bamboo Engineering for the 2013 season, partnering new team mate James Nash. He finished on the overall podium for the first time in the WTCC when he came third in race one of the Race of Italy, also taking the independents' victory.

Racing record

Complete Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 2 points awarded all races)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pen.	DC	Pts
2007	Total Control Racing	Renault Clio Cup 197	BRH 18	ROC Ret	THR Ret	CRO 24	OUL DSQ	DON 17	SNE 1 10	SNE 2 9	BRH 13	DON 22	THR 1 Ret	THR 2 22									−6	13th	98
2008	Total Control Racing	Renault Clio Cup 197	BRH 1 15	BRH 2 6	ROC 1 19	ROC 2 22	DON 1 18	DON 2 10	THR 1 3	THR 2 4	CRO 1 15	CRO 2 11	SIL 1 5	SIL 2 4	SNE 1 Ret	SNE 2 5	OUL 1 Ret	OUL 2 Ret	SIL 1 5	SIL 2 16	BRH 1 8	BRH 2 5	−2	7th	228
2009	Total Control Racing	Renault Clio Cup 197/200	BRH 1 2	BRH 2 3	THR 1 2	THR 2 9	DON 1 4	DON 2 2	OUL 1 1	OUL 2 2	CRO 1 1	CRO 2 2	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 18	SNE 1 1	SNE 2 4	SIL 1 3	SIL 2 Ret	ROC 1 5	ROC 2 8	BRH 1 1	BRH 2 2		2nd	445

Complete SEAT Cupra Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap in class – 1 point awarded all races)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Pts
2007	Total Control Racing	SEAT León Cupra	Cupra R	BRH 1	BRH 2	ROC 1	ROC 2	THR 1	THR 2	CRO 1	CRO 2	OUL 1	OUL 2	DON 1	DON 2	SNE 1	SNE 2	BRH 1	BRH 2	KNO 1 15	KNO 2 17	THR 1	THR 2	NC†	0†

† Not eligible for points

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded in first race) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap – 1 point given)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	DC	Pts
2010	Silverline Chevrolet	Chevrolet Cruze	THR 1 7	THR 2 6	THR 3 9	ROC 1 12	ROC 2 12	ROC 3 Ret	BRH 1 7	BRH 2 3	BRH 3 Ret	OUL 1 7	OUL 2 9	OUL 3 Ret*	CRO 1 13	CRO 2 9	CRO 3 10	SNE 1 NC	SNE 2 Ret	SNE 3 13	SIL 1 4	SIL 2 9	SIL 3 10	KNO 1 2	KNO 2 9	KNO 3 7	DON 1 4	DON 2 11	DON 3 Ret	BRH 1 4	BRH 2 Ret	BRH 3 11	11th	83
2011	Silverline Chevrolet	Chevrolet Cruze LT	BRH 1 5	BRH 2 13	BRH 3 16	DON 1 9	DON 2 9	DON 3 4*	THR 1 10	THR 2 7	THR 3 8	OUL 1 3	OUL 2 5	OUL 3 18	CRO 1 14	CRO 2 Ret	CRO 3 8	SNE 1 2	SNE 2 4	SNE 3 5	KNO 1 12	KNO 2 Ret	KNO 3 10	ROC 1 12	ROC 2 15	ROC 3 11	BRH 1 3	BRH 2 Ret	BRH 3 Ret	SIL 1 5	SIL 2 9	SIL 3 4	9th	100

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Pos	Pts
2012	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	ITA 1 8	ITA 2 7	ESP 1 15	ESP 2 14	MAR 1 12	MAR 2 Ret	SVK 1 12	SVK 2 Ret	HUN 1 9	HUN 2 11	AUT 1 6	AUT 2 Ret	POR 1 10	POR 2 7	BRA 1 6	BRA 2 11	USA 1 5	USA 2 7	JPN 1 5	JPN 2 9	CHN 1 NC	CHN 2 17	MAC 1 9	MAC 2 Ret			11th	68
2013	bamboo-engineering	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	ITA 1 3	ITA 2 20†	MAR 1 6	MAR 2 Ret	SVK 1 8	SVK 2 8	HUN 1 8	HUN 2 3	AUT 1 5	AUT 2 6	RUS 1	RUS 2	POR 1	POR 2	BRA 1	BRA 2	TBA 1	TBA 2	USA 1	USA 2	JPN 1	JPN 2	CHN 1	CHN 2	MAC 1	MAC 2	7th*	73*

† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

^* Season in progress.

External links

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