Martin Plowman

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Martin Plowman (born October 3, 1987 in Burton-upon-Trent ) is a British racing driver .

Career

Martin Plowman at the Long Beach Grand Prix 2012 in a Morgan Nissan in the LMP2 class
At the Le Mans 24-hour race in 2013 , Martin Plowman and his team won the LMP2 class in a Morgan Nissan

Like most motorsport enthusiasts, Plowman began his career in karting , where he was active from 2003 to 2005. Among other things, he won the French Elite Championship in 2003 and the Asia-Pacific Formula A Championship in 2004. In 2006 Plowman switched to formula racing to the Prema Powerteam and started in two racing series. While he was fifth overall in the Italian Formula Renault , he was 23rd in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup . In the next season he stayed in both series and deteriorated in the Italian Formula Renault to seventh, and in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup to 26th place in the overall classification. In 2008 he switched to RC Motorsport in the Formula 3 Euro Series and contested the first seven race weekends of the season. He never got beyond 17th place and finished 31st in the overall standings at the end of the season.

In 2009 Plowman decided to move to North America and competed for Panther Racing in the Indy Lights . He was mostly faster than his teammate Pippa Mann and finished eleventh overall with two fifth places as the best results at the end of the season. In 2010 he was signed by AFS Racing / Andretti Autosport . In Lexington , Plowman won his first Indy Lights race. He finished the season in third place overall. In 2011 , Plowman made his IndyCar Series debut . He took part in three races for Sam Schmidt Motorsports . His car was also prepared by AFS Racing. He finished the season in 33rd place overall. He did not complete any other races.

In 2012 Plowman switched to endurance racing to Conquest Racing in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). Together with David Heinemeier Hansson , he won the LMP2 class twice. The two took second place at the end of the season. In 2013 , Plowman received a cockpit at OAK Racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). He drove with Bertrand Baguette and Ricardo González . The three of them won the LMP2 classification twice, including at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . The best overall placement was fourth. The three finished the season in tenth place in the world championship and won the trophy for LMP2 drivers.

In 2014, Plowman competed for BAR1 Motorsports in three races of the newly established United SportsCar Championship (USCC) and two IndyCar races for AJ Foyt Enterprises .

statistics

Career stations

Individual results in the IndyCar Series

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th Points rank
2011 Sam Schmidt Motorsports STP ALA LBH SAO INDY TXS Mil IOW GOAL EDM MDO NHA SNM BAL MOT KTY LSV 49 33.
                      18th   12 11      
2014 AJ Foyt Enterprises STP LBH ALA IMS INDY DET TXS HOU POC IOW GOAL MDO Mil SNM HAIRDRYER 18th 34.
      18th 23 32                          

( Legend )

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2013 FranceFrance OAK Racing Morgan LMP2 BelgiumBelgium Bertrand baguette MexicoMexico Ricardo González Rank 7 and class win

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2012 United StatesUnited States Conquest Endurance Morgan LMP2 DenmarkDenmark David Heinemeier Hansson BelgiumBelgium Jan Heylen Rank 41
2014 United StatesUnited States BAR1 Motorsports Oreca FLM09 United StatesUnited States Doug Biefield United StatesUnited States Tomy Drissi United StatesUnited States Chapman Ducote Rank 44
2015 United StatesUnited States BAR1 Motorsports Oreca FLM09 United StatesUnited States Marc Drumwright United StatesUnited States Tomy Drissi China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China David Cheng Rank 29

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Plowman makes debut in Mid-Ohio" (Motorsport-Total.com on July 9, 2011)
  2. ^ "Martin Plowman in American Le Mans Series move with Conquest" (autosport.com on February 26, 2012)

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personal data
SURNAME Plowman, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Burton-upon-Trent , United Kingdom