Mike Conway
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| Mike Conway | |
| Nationality |  British |
| Date of Birth | August 19, 1983 |
| Place of Birth | Bromley, Kent (England) |
| 2008 GP2 Series | |
| Debut season | 2006 |
| Current team | Trident Racing |
| Car No. | 20 |
| Former teams | David Price Racing, Super Nova Racing |
| Starts | 29 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 2 |
| Best finish | 14th in 2007 |
| Previous series | |
| 2003-2004 2005-2006 |
British Formula Renault British F3 Championship |
| Championship titles | |
| 2004 2006 |
British Formula Renault Champion British F3 Champion |
| Awards | |
| 2006 | National Driver of the Year |
Mike Conway (born 19 August 1983, in Bromley, Kent, England) is a British racing driver, who currently resides in Sevenoaks, Kent. He attended Sevenoaks Prep School from 1986 to 1996.
Like many racing drivers, he started karting at the age of 8 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 an undoubtedly impressive fourth in both the qualifying and the qualifying race around the famous 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 winning Race Two of the prestigious Grand Prix de Pau, in France, a round of the British F3 International Series for 2006. 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.
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 a very respectable 11th place, and in Race Two, 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 is also signed as a test driver with the Honda Racing F1 Team [1]. He remains in the series for 2008, having signed for the Trident Racing team,[1] 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 3nd before being hit by backmarker Javier Villa on the final lap)[3].
[edit] Racing record
| Season | Series | Team | Car No. | Races | Poles | Wins | Points | Final Placing |
| 2005 | British F3 International Series | Fortec Motorsport | 26 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 192 | 3rd |
| 2006 | British F3 International Series | Räikkönen Robertson Racing | 26 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 311 | 1st |
| 2006 | GP2 Series | DPR Direxiv | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29th |
| 2007 | GP2 Series | Super Nova Racing | 17 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 14th |
| 2008 | GP2 Series | Trident Racing | 20 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 10th* |
* Season in progress.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official web page
- Mike Conway career statistics
- Interview
- Interview (Keith Collantine, Auto Trader)
- Mike Conway is presented with his trophy for winning the 2006 British F3 International Series
| 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 |
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