Mike Conway

Mike Conway
Mike Conway at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Bump Day for the 2009 Indianapolis 500.
Nationality	British
Born	(1983-08-19) August 19, 1983 Bromley, Kent (England)
2013 IndyCar Series
Debut season	2009
Current team	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
Car no.	17
Former teams	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (2009–2010) Andretti Autosport (2011) A. J. Foyt Enterprises (2012)
Starts	54
Wins	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	17th in 2009, 2011
Previous series
2001 2001 2002 2003–04 2003 2005–06 2006–08	UK FFord Winter Series UK Junior FFord UK FFord Championship Formula Renault UK Formula Renault UK Winter Series British F3 Championship GP2 Series
Championship titles
2004 2006	Formula Renault UK Champion British F3 Champion
Awards
2006	National Driver of the Year

Mike Conway, born 19 August 1983, is a British racing driver. He lives in Sevenoaks, Kent and is currently competing in the IZOD IndyCar Series.

Biography

Conway who was born in Bromley, Kent, England attended Sevenoaks Prep School from 1986 to 1996.

Karting to F3

Like many racing drivers, he started karting at the age of eight at Rye House in Hertfordshire. After that, he went on to be the Formula A British Karting Champion, race in Formula Ford with Van Diemen, become the Formula Renault UK Champion in 2004 and then into the British F3 International Series in 2005, with the same Fortec Motorsport team that he had been with in FRenault UK.

In British F3, he was the highest placed rookie and finished 3rd behind Alvaro Parente and Charlie Kimball, as well as managing 13th in the BP Ultimate Masters at Zandvoort, having started 16th, while at the Macau Grand Prix, Conway ended up fourth in both the qualifying and the qualifying race around the Circuito da Guia, before a problematic Grand Prix saw him finish 14th.

Following that success he was signed by 2MB Sports Management run by former Grand Prix drivers Martin Brundle and Mark Blundell, and signed for the Räikkönen Robertson Racing team, owned by then McLaren driver Kimi Räikkönen and his race-manager Steve Robertson. In the 2006 season, Mike dominated the British F3 International Series, and clinched the title with three races remaining, as well as finishing first of the British F3 drivers in Race Two of the prestigious Pau Grand Prix, in France, a round of the British F3 International Series for 2006 - Romain Grosjean won the race. While at the Macau Grand Prix, after qualifying 11th, he finished 7th in the qualifying race, before becoming the first British driver to win the Grand Prix since Darren Manning in 1999.

GP2

Conway driving for Trident Racing at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

He also made his GP2 debut at Silverstone in June 2006, when he replaced the injured Olivier Pla in a DPR Direxiv car. Having stalled at the start of Race One, he battled home to 11th place. In Race 2 he finished 11th again.

Conway also won the National Racing Driver of the Year Award at the 2006 McLaren Autosport Awards.

He then signed up to drive a full season for Super Nova Racing in the 2007 GP2 Series, taking a podium finish at Silverstone, and also signed as a test driver with the Honda Racing F1 Team [1]. He remained in the series for 2008, having signed for the Trident Racing team, after testing for several other teams [2]. At Monaco he took his first GP2 series win (and first 2008 podium) in the sprint race, earning pole position by finishing 8th in the feature race (in which he ran third before being hit by backmarker Javier Villa on the final lap)[3]. At Magny-Cours he also finished 8th in the feature race, but this time he faded to finish 6th in a wet sprint race. He eventually finished 12th in the drivers' championship, an improvement of two positions on the previous year.

IndyCar

During 2008, Conway was given an opportunity to test an IndyCar Series car at Infineon Raceway and surprised several series regulars by being top of the times during one session. Conway signed with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing to compete in the IndyCar Series full–time in 2009.

On the final lap of the 2010 Indianapolis 500, Conway was battling side by side with Ryan Hunter-Reay when the two cars became entangled as Hunter-Reay's Dallara ran low on fuel and stuttered between turns 3 and 4, resulting in Conway's Dallara-Honda being launched into the air. Conway suffered a broken leg during the crash and was flown straight to the Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis. Conway also received a compression fracture of one of his thoracic vertebrae and has been fitted with back brace. The injuries effectively ended his participation in the rest of the 2010 Izod IndyCar Series season.

On February 1, 2011, Andretti Autosport announced that Conway had been signed to a full-time ride for the 2011 IndyCar season. He won his first IndyCar race at Long Beach on April 17, 2011, but the remainder of the year was disappointing; he finished 17th in the championship.

Conway moved to the A. J. Foyt Enterprises team for the 2012 season. He also made his racing return to the Indianapolis 500, having failed to qualify the year before. He qualified near the back but appeared to have a strong car coming up several positions during the race. On lap 79 Conway entered the pits during a scheduled green flag pit stop period. He made contact with one of his crew members damaging his front wing but not injuring the crew member. The damage went unnoticed by the crew who hurried up the pit stop to keep Conway in contention. A few laps later Conway lost control of his car spinning in front of Will Power and making contact with Power causing him to hit the inside wall. At the same time Conway's car turned around backwards and flew airborne into the fence topside first. Conway was uninjured in the incident, but due to damage he was unable to finish the race and was scored in 29th position. He later finished in third place in Toronto, his best result of the season.

In the week leading up to the final race of the 2012 season—held at the Fontana superspeedway—Conway informed the Foyt team that he no longer felt comfortable competing on oval tracks, and requested not to race. He was replaced by Wade Cunningham. Conway's decision stems from injuries after a crash at the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and the debate over the IRL competing on oval tracks after the October 2011 death of Dan Wheldon.

Motorsports career results

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Car No.	Races	Wins	Poles	Points	Position
2001	British Formula Ford Championship Winter Series	Martin Donnelly Racing	?	?	1	1	?	?th
	British Junior Formula Ford Championship	Martin Donnelly Racing	?	?	1	?	?	6th
2002	British Formula Ford Championship	Van Diemen	?	?	0	0	?	4th
2003	Formula Renault UK Championship	Fortec Motorsport	?	?	1	1	?	4th
	Formula Renault UK Winter Series	Fortec Motorsport	?	4	2	2	?	2nd
2004	British Formula Renault Championship	Fortec Motorsport	?	?	8	9	?	1st
2005	British F3 International Series	Fortec Motorsport	26	19	1	0	192	3rd
2006	British F3 International Series	Räikkönen Robertson Racing	26	20	8	8	311	1st
	GP2 Series	DPR Direxiv	20	2	0	0	0	29th
2007	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	17	21	0	0	19	14th
	Formula One	Honda Racing F1 Team	Test driver
2008	GP2 Series	Trident Racing	20	20	1	0	20	12th
	Formula One	Honda Racing F1 Team	Test driver
2009	IndyCar Series	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	24	17	0	0	261	17th
2010	IndyCar Series	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	24	6	0	0	110	25th
2011	IndyCar Series	Andretti Autosport	27	17	1	0	260	17th
2012	IndyCar Series	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	14	14	0	0	233	21st

Complete GP2 series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2006	DPR Direxiv	VAL FEA	VAL SPR	SMR FEA	SMR SPR	EUR FEA	EUR SPR	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	MON FEA	GBR FEA 11	GBR SPR 11	FRA FEA	FRA SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	29th	0
2007	Super Nova Racing	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 5	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR 12	MON FEA Ret	FRA FEA 9	FRA SPR Ret	GBR FEA 2	GBR SPR 5	EUR FEA 18	EUR SPR 15	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 8	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 9	BEL FEA 5	BEL SPR 5	VAL FEA 16	VAL SPR 9	14th	19
2008	Trident Racing	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR 8	TUR FEA 9	TUR SPR 5	MON FEA 8	MON SPR 1	FRA FEA 8	FRA SPR 6	GBR FEA 14	GBR SPR 4	GER FEA Ret	GER SPR 9	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR 11	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR 8	BEL FEA 7	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA 13	ITA SPR Ret		12th	20

American open–wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

IndyCar Series

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Rank	Points
2009	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara	Honda	STP 22	LBH 21	KAN 19	INDY 18	MIL 20	TXS 19	IOW 8	RIR 18	WGL 6	TOR 22	EDM 20	KTY 17	MDO 20	SNM 3	CHI 16	MOT 22	HMS 15		17th	261
2010	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara	Honda	SAO 8	STP 19	ALA 9	LBH 10	KAN 14	INDY 19	TXS	IOW	WGL	TOR	EDM	MDO	SNM	CHI	KTY	MOT	HMS		25th	110
2011	Andretti Autosport	Dallara	Honda	STP 23	ALA 22	LBH 1	SAO 6	INDY DNQ	TXS1 24	TXS2 17	MIL 12	IOW 24	TOR 22	EDM 8	MDO 26	NHM 25	SNM 16	BAL 23	MOT 9	KTY 18	LVS1 C	17th	260
2012	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Dallara DW12	Honda	STP 20	ALA 7	LBH 22	SAO 19	INDY 29	DET 9	TXS 16	MIL 16	IOW 20	TOR 3	EDM 11	MDO 21	SNM 14	BAL 16	FON				21st	233

¹ The Las Vegas Indy 300 was abandoned after Dan Wheldon died from injuries sustained in a 15-car crash on lap 11.

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Indianapolis 500 Wins	Championships
4	3	53	0	1	2	10	0	0

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team	Note
2009	Dallara	Honda	27	18	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Completed every lap
2010	Dallara	Honda	15	19	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Accident
2011	Dallara	Honda	DNQ		Andretti Autosport	Did Not Qualify
2012	Dallara DW12	Honda	29	29	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Accident

Touring Car racing

V8 Supercar results

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	31	Final Pos	Points
2012	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport	Holden VE Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	PHI R10	PHI R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN Q	SAN R20	BAT R21	SUR R22 14	SUR R23 16	YMC R24	YMC R25	YMC R26	WIN R27	WIN R28	SYD R29	SYD R30	NC	0 †

† Not Eligible for points

External links

• Official website
• IndyCar Driver Page
• Mike Conway – career summary at DriverDB.com
• Interview
• Interview (Keith Collantine, Auto Trader)
• Mike Conway is presented with his trophy for winning the 2006 British F3 International Series

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Matt Neal	Autosport National Racing Driver of the Year 2006	Succeeded by Jason Plato
Sporting positions
Preceded by Lewis Hamilton	British Formula Renault UK series champion 2004	Succeeded by Oliver Jarvis
Preceded by Álvaro Parente	British Formula Three Champion 2006	Succeeded by Marko Asmer
Preceded by Lucas di Grassi	Macau Grand Prix Winner 2006	Succeeded by Oliver Jarvis