Dowie lives racing dream through Classic Hatch

Dowie is ready to get his 2013 campaign underway
Photo: Phil Dowie

Greg Dowie has taken the first steps towards achieving his childhood dream of being a driver in the BTCC. Since he was a schoolboy, all he has ever wanted to do was drive, or more specifically, race. After seeing the BTCC as a child Greg knew that was wanted to do. His first introduction to the real world of racing was when he helped out Lea Wood, he was then completely bitten by the racing bug.

Pre-Season

On the run up to taking his ARDS test Greg was given some tuition from Tom Onslow-Cole and first started showing he has some real talent for racing. After a first half season in the Classic Stock Hatch racing for the Dowie Motorsport / Five Towns Racing Team, where he had a few mechanical reliability problems, Greg is now ready to start making a proper impression and building a reputation for himself.

Snetterton
Although he was unable to attend the first couple of meetings, Greg was raring to go and eagerly waiting for the meeting at Snetterton which took place on the 26th of May. Dowie started eighteenth on the grid for the first race of the day and managed to work his way up to ninth position before a  red flag stopped the race when Thomas Langford rolled his Peugeot 205. Annoyingly for Dowie he had alternator failure on the grid and was unable to take up his position on the restart. After repairing the car for the second race, he started in seventeenth and moved up to eleventh place as the race went on. Throughout the majority of the he was locked in battle with fellow Fiesta racer Ben Ward.

Donington Park
After missing Pembrey and Rockingham, Greg will be going onto BBC Stoke Radio before heading to Donington Park to talk about how he got into racing and about Donington Park and his aim of getting into the top ten.