Mike Conway

Mike Conway 2016

Conway raced in the GP2 series from 2006 to 2008

Mike Conway in the Toyota TS050 Hybrid at the 2018 Silverstone 6 Hours

Mike Conway (born August 19, 1983 in Bromley , Kent ) is a British racing driver . He won the British Formula 3 Championship in 2006 . From 2006 to 2008 he was active in the GP2 series . From 2009 to 2014 he competed in the IndyCar Series . He has been competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) since 2013 .

Career

Conway began his motorsport career at the age of eight in karting , where he was active until 2000. Among other things, he won the British Formula A kart championship in 2000. In 2001 he switched to the single-seater racing and launched initially in the British Formula Ford -Juniorenmeisterschaft, he was placed in right away with a win in sixth place in the standings. After taking part in a number of regular British Formula Ford races this season, he entered this championship in 2002 and finished fourth overall with six podium finishes. In 2003 he moved to Fortec Motorsport in the British Formula Renault . He won a race and was fourth at the end of the season. 2004 Conway stayed in this championship and won the championship title with eight wins in front of Westley Barber . In addition, he competed in a total of three races in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup in the two seasons , one of which he won.

In 2005 Conway switched to the British Formula 3 Championship , in which he initially competed again for Fortec Motorsport. He achieved a race win and he was third in the championship behind Charlie Kimball and the champion Álvaro Parente . 2006 Conway moved to Raikkonen Robertson Racing , for which he contested his second season in the British Formula 3 championship. He won 8 of 22 races and won the championship title ahead of Oliver Jarvis and his team-mate Bruno Senna . He also won the prestigious Macau Grand Prix .

After Conway had already completed two races in the GP2 series for DPR Direxiv in the 2006 season and finished 29th overall, he switched to the GP2 series for the British racing team Super Nova Racing in 2007 , where he became Luca Filippi's teammate . While Filippi was fourth in the drivers' standings, Conway was 14th overall. A second place in his home race at Silverstone was his best result. In 2007 he was also one of three Formula 1 test drivers for the Japanese racing team Honda . In 2008 , Conway moved in the GP2 series as a teammate from Ho-Pin Tung to Trident Racing . He scored points in a few races during the season and won the sprint race in Monte Carlo . In the overall standings, Conway, who was better than his teammate Tung, finished twelfth. He was also a Formula 1 test driver for the Honda team again and he took part in some races of the International GT Open .

In 2009 Conway left Europe and moved to America in the IndyCar Series . At Dreyer & Reinbold Racing he received a cockpit for the entire season. With a third place as the best result, he finished 17th in the overall ranking at the end of his first season. In December he was allowed to complete Formula 1 test drives for Brawn GP , the winner of the constructors' championship. In 2010 he stayed with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing and got a permanent teammate with his compatriot Justin Wilson . At the highlight of the season, the Indianapolis 500 , Conway first drew attention to himself with leadership laps. On the 199th of 200 laps, he collided with Ryan Hunter-Reay , who, after his tank ran out of petrol, had the engine cut out. Conway's car was catapulted into the air on contact and flew into the safety fence. At the end of the accident, only the driver's cell was left of the racing car. Conway survived the accident with serious injuries. He suffered multiple fractures in his left leg, a tissue injury on his left leg, and a compression fracture in a thoracic vertebra. He was replaced by various pilots in the remaining races. In the 2010 season, which he had to finish in 15th place overall after the serious accident at the Indianapolis 500, he finished 25th in the drivers' championship at the end of the season.

In 2011 , Conway returned to the IndyCar Series after his injury and competed for Andretti Autosport . After failing to finish in the first two races, he scored his first IndyCar win in the third race at Long Beach . In the further course of the season he never finished within the top 5. For the Indianapolis 500, he failed to qualify. Since he had been noticed in the first ten events by two collisions he had caused, he drove on parole until the end of the season. He finished the season as the worst Andretti driver in 17th place overall. For the 2012 season, Conway moved to AJ Foyt Enterprises . At the Indianapolis 500 he had another serious accident. This time he was unharmed. At the Honda Indy Toronto , he achieved his first podium finish for his new team with a third place. It remained his only top five finish of the season. Shortly before the end of the season, the MAVTV 500 , which took place on the Oval in Fontana , Conway announced that he would not take part in this race and generally ruled out further participation in oval races. Conway stated that he had never felt comfortable on the ovals and that it was not easy for him to return to the oval courses after his serious accident in Indianapolis in 2010. Conway earned the respect of several IndyCar Series drivers and team bosses for his decision. Conway finished the IndyCar season in 21st place overall.

In 2013 , Conway received a cockpit in the LMP2 class of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at the G-Drive Racing team, which was overseen by Alan Docking Racing . He forms a team with John Martin and Roman Russinow . The trio won the LMP2 classification in four out of eight races. Her best overall placement was a third place at the season finale. The three drivers finished seventh in the drivers' world championship. As part of the WEC, he made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race this year . The trio was disqualified in this race. He also completed a race in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) for Level 5 Motorsports . He represented Ryan Briscoe , who was injured. He also competed in individual IndyCar races in 2013 . For Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing he took part in the race in Long Beach , at Dale Coyne Racing he was given a cockpit for the three double-header events in Detroit , Toronto and Houston . In Detroit he won the first race and was third in the second run. In a total of seven starts, Conway made it into the top 10 five times.

In 2014 , Conway completed all IndyCar races on street circuits for Ed Carpenter Racing . He shared the cockpit with team owner Ed Carpenter , who took over the vehicle on the oval courses. Conway won one race each in Long Beach and Toronto . He was 23rd in the drivers' championship. Together with his teammate Carpenter, who has won a race, the two would have finished eighth overall. In addition, Conway took over the position of test and reserve driver at Toyota in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship. In this role he took part in three races and won together with Stéphane Sarrazin and Alexander Wurz in Bahrain . Conway finished eleventh in the drivers' championship. In addition, Conway planned a commitment to Dragon Racing in the FIA Formula E Championship . Due to his duties for Toyota in the WEC, however, shortly before the start of the season he decided against participating in Formula E. In 2015 , Conway received a full-time cockpit at Toyota in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship. Together with his teammates Sarrazin and Wurz, he achieved third place at the season finale in as-Sachir . The trio finished the season in sixth place overall.

At the beginning of 2016 , Conway joined the Venturi Formula E Team in the FIA Formula E Championship . He completed seven races, with an eighth place being his best result. In addition, Conway will be competing again in 2016 with Sarrazin for Toyota Gazoo Racing in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship. Kamui Kobayashi replaced Wurz as their teammate.

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Career stations

1992-2000: Karting 2001: British Formula Ford Junior (6th place) 2001: British Formula Ford (33rd place) 2002: British Formula Ford (4th place) 2003: British Formula Renault (4th place) 2003: North American Formula Renault, winter series (8th place) 2003: British Formula Renault, winter series (8th place) 2004: British Formula Renault (champions) 2005: British Formula 3 (3rd place) 2006: British Formula 3 (champions)

2006 : GP2 series (29th place) 2007 : GP2 series (14th place) 2007 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2008 : GP2 series (12th place) 2008 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2008: International GT Open (24th place) 2009 : IndyCar Series (17th place) 2009 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2010 : IndyCar Series (25th place) 2011 : IndyCar Series (17th place)

2012 : IndyCar Series (21st place) 2013 : WEC (7th place) 2013: ALMS , LMP2 (12th place) 2013 : IndyCar Series (23rd place) 2014 : IndyCar Series (23rd place) 2014 : WEC (11th place) 2015 : WEC (6th place) 2016 : Formula E (16th place) 2016 : WEC 2017 : Formula E (24th place)

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	19th	Points	rank
2009	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	STP 22	LBH 21	KAN 19	INDY 18th	MIL 20	TXS 19	IOW 8	RIR 18	WGL 6	GATE 22	EDM 20	KTY 17	MDO 20	SNM 3	CHI 16	MOT 22	HMS 15			261	17th
2010	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	SAO 8	STP 19	ALA 9	LBH 10	KAN 14	INDY 19th	TXS INJ	IOW INJ	WGL INJ	TOR INJ	EDM INJ	MDO INJ	SNM INJ	CHI INJ	KTY INJ	MOT INJ	HMS INJ			110	25th
2011	Andretti Autosport	STP 23	ALA 22	LBH 1	SAO 6	INDY DNQ	TXS1 24	TXS2 17	MIL 12	IOW 24	GATE 22	EDM 8	MDO 26	NHA 25	SNM 16	BAL 23	MOT 9	KTY 18	LSV C		260	17th
2012	AJ Foyt Enterprises	STP 20	ALA 7	LBH 22	SAO 19	INDY 29	DET 9	TXS 16	MIL 16	IOW 20	GATE 3	EDM 11	MDO 21	SNM 14	BAL 16	HAIRDRYER					233	21st
2013	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	STP	ALA	LBH 25	SAO	INDY			TXS	Mil	IOW	POC			MDO	SNM	BAL			HAIRDRYER	185	23.
	Dale Coyne Racing						DE1 1 *	DE2 3 *					TO1 7	TO2 7				HO1 16	HO2 9
2014	Ed Carpenter Racing	STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	HOU		POC	IOW	GOAL		MDO	Mil	SNM	HAIRDRYER		252	23.
		16 °	1 °	14th	19th		21st	11 °		17th	13			15th	1 °	13		14 °

( Legend )

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	rank
2015/16	Venturi Formula E team	AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER	LON				7th	16.
					15th	12	10	14th	8th	9	13
2016/17	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	HKG	MAR	BUE	MEX	MON	PAR	BER		NYC		MTR		0	24.
			14th

( Legend )

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2013	G-Drive Racing	Oreca 03	John Martin	Roman Russinov	disqualified
2015	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	Stéphane Sarrazin	Alexander Wurz	Rank 6
2016	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Stéphane Sarrazin	Kamui Kobayashi	Rank 2
2017	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Stéphane Sarrazin	Kamui Kobayashi	failure	Clutch damage
2018	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	José María López	Kamui Kobayashi	Rank 2
2019	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	José María López	Kamui Kobayashi	Rank 2

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2017	Wheelen Engineering Racing	Cadillac DPi-VR	Dane Cameron	Eric Curran	Rank 3
2018	Wheelen Engineering Racing	Cadillac DPi-VR	Felipe Nasr	Eric Curran	Rank 3

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
2013	G-Drive Racing	Oreca 03	SIL	SPA	LEM	SAO	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			13	12	DNF	4th	5	5	5	3
2014	Toyota	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH	SAO
						6th			1	4th
2015	Toyota	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			4th	5	6th	6th	DNF	6th	5	3
2016	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			2	DNF	2	6th	3	3	1	2	5
2017	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			13	2	DNF	3	4th	4th	2	4th	4th
2018/19	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SPA	LEM	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LEM
			2	2	DNF	1	1	2	6th	2
2019/20	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SIL	FUJ	SHA	BAH	OUT	SEB	SPA	LEM
			1	2	3	1

Web links

Commons : Mike Conway  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Mike Conway
• Career Stats Mike Conway (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Honda signs Conway as test driver" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 8, 2007)
2. ↑ "Conway and Ericsson impressed by the world champion car" (Motorsport-Total.com on December 3, 2009)
3. ↑ "Surprise: Wilson changes to Dreyer & Reinbold" (Motorsport-Total.com on February 3, 2010)
4. ^ "Broken leg at Conway - cause of the accident clarified" (Motorsport-Total.com on May 31, 2010)
5. ↑ "Horror crash: Conway injured more seriously!" (Motorsport-Total.com on May 31, 2010)
6. ^ “Conway lands Andretti Autosport drive” (autosport.com on February 1, 2011)
7. ^ "Three IndyCar drivers on probation" (Motorsport-Total.com on August 3, 2011)
8. ↑ "IndyCar - Conway joins AJ Foyt Racing" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on December 20, 2011)
9. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Danger in the oval too great: Conway renounces Fontana". Motorsport-Total.com, September 14, 2012, accessed December 4, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Does Conway get another chance?" Motorsport-Total.com, September 21, 2012, accessed on December 4, 2012 . 
11. ↑ “IndyCar drivers respect Conway for not racing”. cnn.com, September 15, 2012, archived from the original on September 15, 2010 ; accessed on December 4, 2012 . 
12. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: "Level 5: Conway jumps in for injured Briscoe". Motorsport-Total.com, July 17, 2013, accessed August 22, 2013 . 
13. ↑ Pete Fink: "Carpenter: Conway drives the non-ovals". Motorsport-Total.com, October 15, 2013, accessed November 20, 2013 . 
14. ↑ Christian Menath: "WEC - Conway becomes Toyota test pilot". Still in parallel with IndyCar. Motorsport-Magazin.com, December 2, 2013, accessed January 15, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Gerald Dirnbeck: "Conway: No Formula E because of the LMP1 program". Motorsport-Total.com, September 6, 2014, accessed September 10, 2014 . 
16. ↑ Tom Bellingham: Conway in as Toyota announce 2015 line-up. (No longer available online.) Sportscarone.com, January 30, 2015, archived from the original on June 21, 2015 ; accessed on June 20, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ↑ Scott Mitchell: Jacques Villeneuve replaced by Mike Conway at Venturi Formula E. autosport.com, January 22, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2016 (English). 
18. ↑ Andreas Haupt: Toyota gets Kobayashi for WEC LMP1-Toyota TS050 in a new look. auto-motor-und-sport.de, February 4, 2016, accessed on February 5, 2016 .