Oliver Rowland

Oliver Rowland (2012)

Oliver Rowland (born August 10, 1992 ) is a British automobile racing driver . He competed in Formula Renault 3.5 in 2014 and 2015 . In 2015 he won the championship. He has been driving in the FIA Formula 2 Championship (formerly GP2 series) since 2015 .

Career

Rowland began his motorsport career in karting in 2000 . Until 2005 he competed in British kart series. He won the national Super 1 Cadet Championship in 2003 and 2004 and was runner-up in the British ICA Junior Kart Championship in 2005. In 2006 he also competed in European kart series and achieved second place in the Monegasque ICA Junior Kart Cup. In the following years Rowland achieved further success in international karting. Among other things, he was CIK-FIA-KF2 World Cup winner in 2007 and CIK-FIA Super KF World Cup winner in 2010 . From 2007 to 2010 Rowland was sponsored and supported by the Formula 1 racing team McLaren . The 2010 season was overshadowed by the death of his father, who had promoted him until then. The British racing driver Martin Hines then took over the promotion of Rowland and became a kind of "father figure" for him.

At the end of 2010 Rowland switched to formula racing and competed for CRS Racing in the British Formula Renault Winter Cup. He won a race and finished seventh in the drivers' standings. In 2011 Rowland started for Fortec Motorsport in the British Formula Renault. While his teammate Alex Lynn won the championship with twelve wins, Rowland decided four races for themselves. At the end of the season Rowland was tied with Tio Ellinas . Since Rowland had two more wins to show, he was runner-up. Rowland suffered a stroke of fate this season as well, as his sponsor Martin Hines passed away. After the season, Rowland took part again in the winter series of the British Formula Renault and won it. He won four of six races and was second twice. In December Rowland won the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award and received £ 100,000 in prize money as well as  a Formula 1 test in the McLaren.

In 2012 Rowland competed for Fortec Motorsport in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup . With a win at the Circuit de Catalunya and two further podium finishes, Rowland finished third in the overall standings. In 2013, Rowland moved to Manor MP Motorsport within the series . He won in Spa-Francorchamps , Wolokolamsk and Spielberg . He stood on the podium a total of eight times. In the championship Rowland defeated Pierre Gasly with 179 to 195 points. In addition, Rowland started for his racing team in eight of 16 races in the Northern European Formula Renault . He has stood on the podium in every race he competed and has four wins in the process. Although he had only completed half of the races, he finished the season in fourth place in the drivers' championship.

Oliver Rowland at the first Formula Renault 3.5 race at the Nürburgring in 2014

In 2014 Rowland returned to Fortec Motorsport and received a cockpit in Formula Renault 3.5 . In Alcañiz and Jerez he won one race each. He finished the season in fourth place overall and with 181 to 132 points internally against Sergei Sirotkin . In 2015 Rowland stayed with Fortec Motorsport and contested his second season in the Formula Renault 3.5. He won a race each in Alcañiz, Spa-Francorchamps, Mogyoród , Spielberg, Silverstone , Nürburg , Le Mans and Jerez. At the penultimate race weekend he won the championship. With 307 to 234 he prevailed against Matthieu Vaxivière . With eight wins Rowland also set a new record for the most wins in a season. In addition, Rowland competed in 2015 for MP Motorsport and Status Grand Prix for two events each in the GP2 series . He also represented the injured Nick Heidfeld at Mahindra Racing at the Punta del Este ePrix 2015 in the FIA Formula E championship 2015/16 .

In 2016 Rowland joined MP Motorsport in the GP2 series as a regular. In addition, he was accepted into the Renault funding program. Although he had not won a race, he led the drivers' standings for a short time after the tenth race. He reached four podium finishes and was ninth overall. With 107 to 6 points, he clearly prevailed against his teammate Daniël de Jong . In 2017 Rowland moved to DAMS and stayed in the series, which had been renamed the FIA Formula 2 Championship that winter .

For the formula e 2018/19 Rowland received a cockpit at Nissan e.dams . With two second places as the best results and three pole positions, he finished tenth in the drivers' championship with 71 points at the end of the season. With a second place he also took sixth place in the overall ranking of the voestalpine European Races , in which only podium places in the races on the European continent were considered.

Personal

Rowland comes from a motorsport family. His father was a motorcycle and his grandfather a rally driver.

statistics

Career stations

2000–2010: karting 2010: British Formula Renault , winter series (7th place) 2011: British Formula Renault (2nd place) 2011: British Formula Renault, winter series (champions) 2012: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (3rd place)

2013: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (2nd place) 2013: Northern European Formula Renault (4th place) 2014 : Formula Renault 3.5 (4th place) 2015 : Formula Renault 3.5 (champion) 2015 : GP2 series (21st place)

2016 : Formula E (21st place) 2016 : GP2 series (9th place) 2017 : Formula 2 (3rd place)

Individual results in Formula Renault 3.5

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	Points	rank
2014	Fortec Motorsport	MNZ		ALC		MON	SPA		MOS		ONLY		HUN		LEC		JRZ		181	4th
		6th	10	3	1	5	DNF	3	DNF	5	4th	DNF	3	4th	13	3	2	1
2015	Fortec Motorsport	ALC		MON	SPA		HUN		SPI		SIL		ONLY		LMS		JRZ		307	1.
		1	3	6th	5	1	3	1	1	2	2	1	1	10	1	8th	1	2

Individual results in the GP2 series / FIA Formula 2 championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	Points	rank
2015	MP Motorsport	BRN		ESP		MON		AUT		GBR		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		BRN		UAE		3	21st
										10	7th			NC	DNF
	Status Grand Prix																			22nd	DNF	15th	C.
2016	MP Motorsport	ESP		MON		AZE		AUT		GBR		HUN		GER		BEL		ITA		MAS		UAE		107	9.
		10	6th	3	7th	4th	15 *	6th	2	3	3	11	6th	5	5	10	6th	9	9	12	8th	DNF	11
2017	DAMS	BRN		ESP		MON		AZE		AUT		GBR		HUN		BEL		ITA		ESP		UAE		191	3.
		5	3	3	2	1	9	7th	DNF	4th	3	3	17th	1	2	DSQ	8th	DNF	11	2	3	DSQ	7th

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2015/16	Mahindra Racing	AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER	LON								0	21st
				13
2018/19	Nissan e.dams	TO YOU	MAR	SAN	MEX	HKG	SAY	ROME	PAR	MCO	BER	BRN	NYC					71	10.
		7th	15th	DNF	*20 *	DNF	2	6th	12	2	8th	DNF	14th	6th

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Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2018	CEFC Manor TRSM Racing	Ginetta G60-LT-P1	Alex Brundle	Oliver Turvey	failure	Engine failure

Web links

• Career statistics of Oliver Rowland (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Has McLaren found a new Hamilton?" (Motorsport-Total.com on May 16, 2007)
2. ^ "Six juniors in the 2010 McLaren squad" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 19, 2010)
3. ↑ ^{a b} “McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award winner Oliver Rowland profile” (autosport.com on December 5, 2011)
4. ↑ ^{a b} "Rowland may test McLaren" (Motorsport-Total.com on December 5, 2011)
5. ↑ “Oliver Rowland Steps Up To Eurocup With Fortec” (thecheckeredflag.co.uk on December 19, 2011)
6. ↑ Annika Kläsener: "WS by Renault - Rowland starts 2014 for Fortec". In the footsteps of Frijns and Vandoorne. Motorsport-Magazin.com, December 6, 2013, accessed January 24, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Peter Allen: Oliver Rowland confirmed for second season in FR3.5 with Fortec. paddockscout.com, November 16, 2014, accessed February 25, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Felix Mattis: Rowland makes everything clear ahead of time. eurosport.com, September 30, 2015, accessed October 4, 2015 . 
9. ^ Peter Mills: Jerez Formula Renault 3.5: Oliver Rowland takes record eighth win. autosport.com, October 17, 2015, accessed November 3, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: FR3.5 points leader Rowland to make GP2 debut at Silverstone. paddockscout.com, July 2, 2015, accessed July 2, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Peter Mills: Oliver Rowland to fill in for injured Nick Heidfeld in Formula E. autosport.com, December 4, 2015, accessed on December 4, 2015 (English). 
12. ^ Matt Beer: Oliver Rowland moves into GP2 as part of Renault Sport Academy. autosport.com, February 3, 2016, accessed February 3, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Valentin Khorounzhiy: DAMS reveals Oliver Rowland and Nicolas Latifi as 2017 GP2 drivers. autosport.com, February 13, 2017, accessed February 25, 2017 .