Racing Driver
A racing driver with 30+ years motorsport experience.
Barton Mawer is a racing driver that is available for hire anywhere in the world. Uniquely for a racing driver Barton is extremely approachable with a personality that is as welcoming as his smile. Although when he puts the helmet on it is all about extreme driving performance. His driving experience includes a number of race wins, podiums and top 10 race finishes in various classes of motorsport and different race tracks around the world.
Barton holds the current lap record at Sydney Motorsport Park of 1.19.277 from World Time Attack
Uniquely he now combines his racing driver duties with things like race co-driving and driver coaching that can be complimented with simulation or data analysis sessions.
PROVEN RESULTS
A racing driver with winning pedigree
Barton’s racing driver career started at an early age with karts and, like many youngsters, progressed to Formula Ford, Formula 3 and even Formula Atlantic with stints in the UK, US and Asia.
In recent years he has competed in the Australian GT Championship (AGT), the new Australian Touring Car Series (TCR) and even had a run in the inaugural Australian S5000 open wheeler series.
At each step Bart has either over-achieved in older equipment, been in the top 10, delivered podium results or won. He has more than twenty years of delivering results as a racing driver across tracks around the world.
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Motorsport CV
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NATIONALITY………………Australian
DATE OF BIRTH……………August 14, 1981 in Camden, NSW
HOMETOWN………………..Picton, NSW
HEIGHT………………………162cm
WEIGHT………………………61kg
HAIR COLOUR……………..Brown
EYE COLOUR……………….Hazel
TOP ACHIEVEMENT……..Winning a British Formula 3 International Series race in Monza, Italy.
MEMORABLE MOMENT…Receiving a trophy from triple F1 Champion Sir Jackie Stewart at Silverstone.
MOTORSPORT HERO…….Ayrton Senna
2019
- World Time Attack Challenge - Porsche RP968 - Winner & Lap Record
- New South Wales Production Sports Car Championship - Audi R8 LMS Ultra - 2 races / 2 podiums
- Cue Enduro Super Series - Audi R8 LMS Ultra - 2 races / 2 podiums
- Australian GT Trophy Series - Audi R8 LMS Ultra - Pole Position / Fastest Lap
- S5000 Australia - Ligier JS F3-S5000 - 3 races
- TCR Australia Touring Car Series - Subaru WRX STI - 3 races
2018
- World Time Attack Challenge - Porsche RP968 - Winner & Lap Record
- Mount Panorama Production Sports Car One Hour race - Audi R8 LMS Ultra - 6th Position / Fastest Lap
2017
- Cue Sports Car Enduro Interclub Championship - Audi R8 & Porsche GT3 Cup - 2 wins / 7 podiums / 1 Pole / 1 Fastest Lap
2016
- Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour Class A-Am - Audi R8 LMS - 1st place, race winner
- World Time Attack Challenge - Porsche RP968 - 2nd Outright
2016 & earlier
Here are some of Barton Mawer’s racing career highlights from his early days of karting through to 2016.
- Australian GT Championship - Audi R8 LMS) - 1st in Trophy class
- World Time Attack Challenge - Lotus Exige GT3 – 6th in Pro class and 9th outright driving a circuit racing GT car against purpose-built time attack machines.
- World Time Attack Challenge- - Lotus Exige GT3 – 1st circuit racing car & 7th outright.
- Bathurst 12-hour race - 2008 Porsche 997 GT3 Cup – 6th in class & 25th outright due to mechanical problems.
- Bathurst 12 Hour race -Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S) – fourth outright.
- Aussie Racing Car Super Series – two cameo drives in this highly competitive one-make series; best result 4th
- Radical Australia Cup Series co-driver - Radical SR3 – 'pro' co-driver in several 'pro-am' rounds; best result 3rd at Phillip Island.
- World speed record for solar-powered vehicles at HMAS Albatross, Nowra - University of NSW Sunswift IV – 88.8km/h.
- 8-hour Production Touring Car Race, Eastern Creek Raceway (co-driver, Subaru WRX STi) – 1st.
- NSW Production Touring Car Championship round, Wakefield Park (Subaru WRX STi) – 1st in one-hour race; set new lap record in sprint race.
- VLN endurance series at the Nurburgring 22km combined Nordschleife & Grand Prix circuits, Germany (co-driver, Porsche 997 GT3 Cup) – contested two rounds; fastest lap 8min. 52sec.
- Merdeka Millennium 12-hour race at Sepang, Malaysia (co-driver, Porsche 996 RSR) – drove in qualifying only; mechanical problems prevented the car from starting the race.
- Australian Porsche Carrera Cup – 10th overall in rookie season; best race result 3rd at Barbagallo Raceway.
- Merdeka Millennium 12-hour race at Sepang, Malaysia (co-driver, Porsche 996 RSR) – 3rd outright.
- Australian Formula 3 Driver's Championship (2004 Dallara F304) – 8th overall despite contesting only three of eight rounds; won the Superprix race at Symmons Plains, Tasmania.
- Formula 3 support races at the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix (2004 Dallara F304) – pole position, 1st and new lap record in both races.
- British Formula 3 International Series 'National' class (2004 Dallara F304) – 2nd overall with four race wins
- British International Formula 3 Series 'Scholarship' class (2001 Dallara F301) – 4th overall despite contesting only the first five of 12 rounds
- British International Formula 3 Series 'Championship' class, round 11 & FIA Formula 3 European Cup at Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium (2004 Dallara F304)
- Australian Formula 3 Championship (1996 Dallara F396) – 2nd overall with 4 wins & 5 pole positions.
- Australian Formula Ford Championship – 5th overall (2001 Van Diemen RF01).
- Formula 3 debut in support race at the Gold Coast Indycar round (Dallara F396) – 3rd.
- Formula Ford support race at the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix (2001 Van Diemen RF01) – 2nd.
- Australian Formula Ford Championship (1995 Mygale SJ95) – 12th overall.
- NSW State Karting Title Senior PRD – 2nd.
- Australian Historic Formula Ford Championship (1975 Mawer 004 built by Barton's racing car engineer-constructor father, David) – 1st with 11 race wins & 4 lap records.
- Australian Championship (Junior PRD) – 1st.
- ACT Titles (PRD class) – 1st.
- CIK international series support race (Junior PRD) – 1st.