Alex MacDowall is a racing driver from Great Britain who last raced in GT World Challenge Europe for Barwell Motorsport. MacDowall has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 16 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 2,749 ranks MacDowall 1303th of 12,418 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | GT World Challenge Europe | Barwell Motorsport | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P119 | −90 | 2,905 |
| 2021 | GT World Challenge Europe | Garage 59 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P54 | +190 | 2,995 |
| 2020 | GT World Challenge Europe | Barwell Motorsport | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P35 | +247 | 2,806 |
| 2019 | GT World Challenge Europe | Team WRT | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P138 | +58 | 2,558 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 Maro Engel | 5,937 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 20% |
| 🇩🇪 Luca Stolz | 4,570 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 20% |
| 🏳️ Chris Froggatt | 2,728 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 67% |
| 🇬🇧 Benjamin Goethe | 4,968 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 36% |
| 🇮🇹 Mirko Bortolotti | 4,507 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 14% |
| 🇩🇪 Christopher Haase | 4,305 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 14% |
| 🇺🇸 Alexander West | 2,564 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 64% |
| 🇫🇷 Jules Gounon | 4,714 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 23% |
| 🇮🇹 Mattia Drudi | 4,368 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 23% |
| 🇩🇪 Markus Winkelhock | 4,232 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 8% |
Alex MacDowall is a British racing driver who competed for Aston Martin Racing in the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season, part of a career that has spanned prototype and grand touring machinery in Europe. He is most recently associated with Barwell Motorsport in GT World Challenge Europe, driving for a squad well known within the GT3 ranks. Across his time in the series he has amassed 16 career starts, though without a championship, race win, or podium finish to date, a record that reflects the difficulty of the highly competitive GT3 field rather than a lack of experience.[1]
MacDowall's Racer Rating stands at 2,749, placing him 1303rd among active drivers on a scale where the world's elite sit between roughly 10,000 and 11,500, indicative of a driver operating well outside the top tier of the current grid. His most recent campaign, in 2026, yielded no wins or podiums across three rounds, leaving him 119th in the standings for that season. With his status now listed as retired, MacDowall's career stands as that of a British driver who progressed through top-level manufacturer competition in endurance racing before rounding out his later years in GT3 competition with Barwell Motorsport.[2]