Will Powell (racing driver)

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Will Powell
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Powell in 2021.
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
Born (1985-03-08) 8 March 1985 (age 39)
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
British Touring Car Championship career
Debut season2022
Current teamAutobrite Direct with JourneyHero
Car number20
Starts21
Wins0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish19th in 2022
Previous series
TCR UK
Britcar Endurance Championship
GT Cup Championship

Will Powell (born 8 March 1985) is a British racing driver and businessman. He is the Managing Director of Motus One, a motorsport marketing company.[1] He races in British Touring Car Championship for Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero.[2] He formerly raced for the Brabham Motorsport team and won the 2021 British Endurance Championship in a McLaren GT3.[3][4][5]

Sports marketing

Powell's career began working as a news reporter for Autocar and Haymarket Media Group. He later worked for production company North One TV whose clients included FIA World Rally Championship, FIA Formula E Championship, and FIA Formula One. He also worked in performance vehicle marketing roles at Jaguar Land Rover and later became a Vice President at CSM, the motorsports marketing division of Chime Plc.

In 2016, Powell founded the motorsport marketing agency Motus One where he is Managing Director.[6][7] In 2018, Motus One Racing was added to the group adding a motorsport events and race team to the business.

Motor racing

Powell is a BTCC driver for team Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero run by Team HARD in a Cupra Leon.[8] He was formerly a factory driver for the motorsport division of Anglo-American sports car company Brabham Automotive.[9]

He has raced in GT and sports car championships in the UK including F3,[10] British Endurance Championship, GT Cup,[11] Radicals, 24h Series and MR2 Championship.[12]

He is qualified as a race coach by the Association of Racing Driver Schools (ARDS) and has coached customers for Mercedes-Benz AMG, Bentley, and Ford.[13][14]

He drove the Brabham BT62 Competition[15] in the marque’s return to racing at the Brands Hatch Into The Night Race in November 2019 alongside teammate David Brabham.[9][16] The duo finished in first place with Powell setting fastest lap of the race.[17]

In a disrupted 2020 motorsport season, Powell raced as a professional driver in the British Endurance Series and GT Cup in a Ginetta G55 GT4 with co-driver Dave Scaramanga for Motus One Racing.[18] During the COVID-19 UK lockdown, Powell won multiple e-sports races[19] in a virtual Brabham BT62.

In 2021, Powell won the British Endurance Series championship in a McLaren 650S GT3.[20] In the same year, it was announced by Maximum Motorsport that Powell would drive[21] its Hyundai i30N in the TCR UK touring car championship. He also tested for Team HARD in its Cupra Leon for the British Touring Car Championship.[22]

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race; races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races; * signifies that driver led race for at least one lap – 1 point given 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 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DC Points
2022 Autobrite Direct with JourneyHero CUPRA León DON
1 		DON
2 		DON
3 		BRH
1
29 		BRH
2
23 		BRH
3
25 		THR
1
23 		THR
2
22 		THR
3
Ret 		OUL
1
Ret 		OUL
2
NC 		OUL
3
21 		CRO
1
Ret 		CRO
2
24 		CRO
3
22 		KNO
1
21 		KNO
2
Ret 		KNO
3
26 		SNE
1
25 		SNE
2
Ret 		SNE
3
24 		THR
1 		THR
2 		THR
3 		SIL
1
22 		SIL
2
25 		SIL
3
Ret 		BRH
1 		BRH
2 		BRH
3 		31st 0

References

  1. ^ "OUR TEAM". MOTUS.ONE. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  2. ^ Gill, Samuel (3 May 2022). "Will Powell secures BTCC debut in final Team HARD. Racing seat". The Checkered Flag. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  3. ^ "New BT62 set to be Britcar together". Pressreader. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  4. ^ "The car behind Brabham's return to the race track - BT62". The Checkered Flag. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  5. ^ Sutcliffe, Aaron. "Knowle driver Powell wins Britcar Endurance Championship". Solihull Observer.
  6. ^ "MOTUS ONE HELPING TO PUT BRABHAM NAME BACK IN POLE POSITION". MEPC Silverstone Park. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Developing Grid with Codemasters". MOTUS.ONE. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  8. ^ "BTCC | WILL POWELL TO TAKE FINAL CUPRA SEAT WITH TEAM HARD. RACING". www.btcc.net. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Brabham BT62 to make race debut in November". Motor Authority. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  10. ^ "BRDC BRITISH F3 CHAMPIONSHIP" (PDF). Motosport Vision Racing.
  11. ^ "Driver Profile: Will Powell". GT Cup.
  12. ^ "Race 13 (Sunday) - Toyota MR2 Championship | theresultslive.co.uk". The Results Live. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  13. ^ "Will Powell | Association of Racing Driver Schools | ARDS". www.ards.co.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  14. ^ "A Walk in the Park". Pressreader. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  15. ^ "BRABHAM AUTOMOTIVE ANNOUNCE DRIVERS FOR BT62 RACING DEBUT – Brabham Automotive". Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  16. ^ Libbeter, Mark. "New Brabham BT62 wins on debut in Britcar + Ginetta Junior report". Autosport.com. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  17. ^ "Brabham wins in a Brabham: debut victory for BT62 as famous name returns". Motor Sport Magazine. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  18. ^ "Britcar - Teams & Drivers". www.britcar-endurance.com. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  19. ^ "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  20. ^ "Moorgate McLaren dominates to record maiden Britcar class win - automobilsport.com". www.automobilsport.com. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  21. ^ "21 January 2021 | Autosport Digital Edition". digitaledition.autosport.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  22. ^ "TCR UK racer Will Powell to test Team HARD Cupra - TouringCarTimes". TouringCarTimes. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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