Will Powell (racing driver)


Will Powell is a British racing driver and businessman. He is the Managing Director of Motus One, a motorsport marketing company. He races for the Brabham Motorsport team.

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. 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.
He has raced in GT and sports car championships in the UK including F3, Britcar, GT Cup, Radicals and MR2 Championship.
He is qualified as a race coach by the Association of Racing Driver Schools and has coached customers for Mercedes-Benz AMG, Bentley, and Ford.
He drove the Brabham BT62 Competition in the marque’s return to racing at the Brands Hatch Into The Night Race in November 2019 alongside teammate David Brabham. The duo finished in first place with Powell setting fastest lap of the race.
In a disrupted 2020 motorsport season, Powell is racing as a pro-driver in the Britcar Endurance Series in a Ginetta G55 GT4 with co-driver Dave Scaramanga for . During the COVID-19 UK lockdown, Powell won multiple e-sports races in a virtual Brabham BT62.