Will Powell (racing driver)

Will Powell (8 March 1985) is a British racing driver and businessman. He is the Managing Director of Motus One, a motorsport marketing company.[1] He races for the Brabham Motorsport team.[2][3]

Career

Powell worked for production company North One TV whose clients included FIA World Rally Championship, FIA Formula E Championship, and FIA Formula One. He later worked in performance vehicle marketing roles at Jaguar Land Rover. He later became a Vice President at CSM, the sports marketing division of Chime Plc.

In 2016, Powell founded the motorsport marketing agency Motus One where he is Managing Director.[4][5] In 2018, Motus One Racing was consolidated into the group adding a motorsport events and race team to the business.

Motor racing

Powell is a factory driver for the motorsport division of Anglo-American sports car company Brabham Automotive.[6]

He has raced in GT and sports car championships in the UK including F3,[7] Britcar, GT Cup,[8] Radicals and MR2 Championship.[9]

Will Powell
Born (1985-03-08) March 8, 1985
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationRacing driver, businessman
OrganizationMotus One
TitleManaging Director
Websitemotus.one

He is qualified as a race coach by the Association of Racing Driver Schools (ARDS) and has coached customers for Mercedes-Benz AMG, Bentley, and Ford.[10][11]

He drove the Brabham BT62 Competition[12] in the marque’s return to racing at the Brands Hatch Into The Night Race in November 2019 alongside teammate David Brabham.[6][13] The duo finished in first place with Powell setting fastest lap of the race.[14]

In a disrupted 2020 motorsport season, Powell is racing as a pro-driver in the Britcar Endurance Series and GT Cup in a Ginetta G55 GT4 with co-driver Dave Scaramanga for Motus One Racing.[15] During the COVID-19 UK lockdown, Powell won multiple e-sports races[16] in a virtual Brabham BT62.

In early 2021, it was announced by Motus One Racing that Powell would drive [17]in the TCR UK touring car championship.

References
  1. "OUR TEAM". MOTUS.ONE. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  2. "New BT62 set to be Britcar together". Pressreader. 2019-10-24. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  3. "The car behind Brabham's return to the race track - BT62". The Checkered Flag. 2019-11-29. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  4. "MOTUS ONE HELPING TO PUT BRABHAM NAME BACK IN POLE POSITION". MEPC Silverstone Park. 2019-06-09. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  5. "Developing Grid with Codemasters". MOTUS.ONE. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  6. "Brabham BT62 to make race debut in November". Motor Authority. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  7. "BRDC BRITISH F3 CHAMPIONSHIP" (PDF). Motosport Vision Racing.
  8. "Driver Profile: Will Powell". GT Cup.
  9. "Race 13 (Sunday) - Toyota MR2 Championship | theresultslive.co.uk". The Results Live. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  10. "Will Powell | Association of Racing Driver Schools | ARDS". www.ards.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  11. "A Walk in the Park". Pressreader. 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  12. "BRABHAM AUTOMOTIVE ANNOUNCE DRIVERS FOR BT62 RACING DEBUT – Brabham Automotive". Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  13. Libbeter, Mark. "New Brabham BT62 wins on debut in Britcar + Ginetta Junior report". Autosport.com. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  14. "Brabham wins in a Brabham: debut victory for BT62 as famous name returns". Motor Sport Magazine. 2019-11-11. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
  15. "Britcar - Teams & Drivers". www.britcar-endurance.com. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  16. "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  17. "21 January 2021 | Autosport Digital Edition". digitaledition.autosport.com. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
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