Will Powell (racing driver)

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Will Powell at Donington Park 2021

Will Powell (8 March 1985) is a British racing driver and businessman. He is the Managing Director of Motus One, a motorsport marketing company.[1] He formerly raced for the Brabham Motorsport team and is the British Endurance Series champion.[2][3][4]

Career[]

Powell worked for production company North One TV whose clients included FIA World Rally Championship, FIA Formula E Championship, and FIA Formula One. He later worked in performance vehicle marketing roles at Jaguar Land Rover. He later became a Vice President at CSM, the sports marketing division of Chime Plc.

In 2016, Powell founded the motorsport marketing agency Motus One where he is Managing Director.[5][6] In 2018, Motus One Racing was consolidated into the group adding a motorsport events and race team to the business.

Motor racing[]

Powell was a factory driver for the motorsport division of Anglo-American sports car company Brabham Automotive.[7]

He has raced in GT and sports car championships in the UK including F3,[8] Britcar, GT Cup,[9] Radicals, 24h Series and MR2 Championship.[10]

Will Powell
Born (1985-03-08) March 8, 1985 (age 36)
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationRacing driver, businessman
OrganizationMotus One
Known forMotorsport
TitleManaging Director
Websitemotus.onewillpowellracing.com

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.[11][12]

He drove the Brabham BT62 Competition[13] in the marque’s return to racing at the Brands Hatch Into The Night Race in November 2019 alongside teammate David Brabham.[7][14] The duo finished in first place with Powell setting fastest lap of the race.[15]

In a disrupted 2020 motorsport season, Powell raced as a pro-driver in the British Endurance Series and GT Cup in a Ginetta G55 GT4 with co-driver Dave Scaramanga for Motus One Racing.[16] During the COVID-19 UK lockdown, Powell won multiple e-sports races[17] in a virtual Brabham BT62.

In 2021, Powell won the British Endurance Series championship in a McLaren GT3.[18] In the same year, it was announced by Maximum Motorsport that Powell would drive[19] its Hyundai in the TCR UK touring car championship. He also tested for Team HARD in its SEAT Cupra for the British Touring Car Championship.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ "OUR TEAM". MOTUS.ONE. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  2. ^ "New BT62 set to be Britcar together". Pressreader. 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  3. ^ "The car behind Brabham's return to the race track - BT62". The Checkered Flag. 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  4. ^ Sutcliffe, Aaron. "Knowle driver Powell wins Britcar Endurance Championship". Solihull Observer.
  5. ^ "MOTUS ONE HELPING TO PUT BRABHAM NAME BACK IN POLE POSITION". MEPC Silverstone Park. 2019-06-09. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  6. ^ "Developing Grid with Codemasters". MOTUS.ONE. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  7. ^ a b "Brabham BT62 to make race debut in November". Motor Authority. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  8. ^ "BRDC BRITISH F3 CHAMPIONSHIP" (PDF). Motosport Vision Racing.
  9. ^ "Driver Profile: Will Powell". GT Cup.
  10. ^ "Race 13 (Sunday) - Toyota MR2 Championship | theresultslive.co.uk". The Results Live. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  11. ^ "Will Powell | Association of Racing Driver Schools | ARDS". www.ards.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  12. ^ "A Walk in the Park". Pressreader. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  13. ^ "BRABHAM AUTOMOTIVE ANNOUNCE DRIVERS FOR BT62 RACING DEBUT – Brabham Automotive". Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  14. ^ Libbeter, Mark. "New Brabham BT62 wins on debut in Britcar + Ginetta Junior report". Autosport.com. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  15. ^ "Brabham wins in a Brabham: debut victory for BT62 as famous name returns". Motor Sport Magazine. 2019-11-11. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  16. ^ "Britcar - Teams & Drivers". www.britcar-endurance.com. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  17. ^ "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  18. ^ "Moorgate McLaren dominates to record maiden Britcar class win - automobilsport.com". www.automobilsport.com. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  19. ^ "21 January 2021 | Autosport Digital Edition". digitaledition.autosport.com. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  20. ^ "TCR UK racer Will Powell to test Team HARD Cupra - TouringCarTimes". TouringCarTimes. 2021-07-15. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
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