Mike MacDowel

**Mike MacDowel**
Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1957 French Grand Prix
Last start:	1957 French Grand Prix
Constructors
	1957 Cooper Car Company
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Michael George Hartwell "Mike" MacDowel (born September 13, 1932 in Great Yarmouth ; † January 18, 2016 ) was a British automobile racing driver .

Career

MacDowel was an amateur racing driver who contested his first races in the small Lotus sports car. In 1955 he celebrated ten victories in national races. In 1956 he became a works driver for Cooper and drove their sports car.

In 1957 he had his only appearance in the automobile world championship . At the French Grand Prix in Reims , he started with a works Cooper T43 . About halfway through the race, he had to hand the car over to his team-mate Jack Brabham , who had already retired and finished seventh. At the end of the year he finished second at the Prix de Paris in Montlhéry .

After many years of absence, MacDowel returned to motorsport in 1968 and won the British Hill Climbing Championship in 1973 and 1974. As a 60-year-old MacDowel drove hill climbs and competed in events for historic racing vehicles until shortly before his death.

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1957	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T43	Climax 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1957
1957				7th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	^P / bold	Pole position
	_SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1955	cooper	Cooper T39	Argentina BUA	United States SEB	Italy MIM	France LEM	United Kingdom RTT	Italy TAR
1955	cooper	Cooper T39					10

literature

Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

Mike MacDowel at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

↑ Marcus Pye: Obituary: F1, hillclimb and sportscar racer Michael MacDowel . Autosport , January 23, 2016, accessed January 26, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	MacDowel, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	MacDowel, Michael George Hartwell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Great Yarmouth
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 2016

[1] Marcus Pye: Obituary: F1, hillclimb and sportscar racer Michael MacDowel . Autosport , January 23, 2016, accessed January 26, 2016.