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Mike Conway
2007 GP2 Series driver
Nationality	British
Current team	Super Nova Racing
Car No.	16 (TBC)
Former teams	DPR Direxiv
Starts	2
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Debut season	2006
Best season	29th (2006)
2006 position	29th

Mike Conway (born 19 August 1983, in Bromley, Kent, England) is a British racing driver, who currently resides in Sevenoaks, Kent.

Like many racing drivers, he started karting at the age of 8 at Rye House in Hertfordshire. After that, he went on to be the Formula A British Karting Champion, race in Formula Ford with Van Diemen, become the Formula Renault UK Champion in 2004 and then into the British F3 International Series in 2005, with the same Fortec Motorsport team that he had been with in FRenault UK.

In British F3, he was the highest placed rookie and finished 3rd behind Alvaro Parente and Charlie Kimball, as well as managing 13th in the BP Ultimate Masters at Zandvoort, having started 16th, while at the Macau Grand Prix, Conway ended up a lucky (yet undoubtedly impressive) fourth in both the qualifying and the qualifying race around the famous Circuito da Guia, before a problematic Grand Prix saw him finish 14th.

Following that success he was signed by 2MB Sports Management run by former Grand Prix drivers Martin Brundle and Mark Blundell, and signed for the Räikkönen Robertson Racing team, owned by McLaren driver Kimi Räikkönen and his race-manager Steve Robertson. In the 2006 season, Mike dominated the British F3 International Series, and clinched the title with three races remaining, as well as winning Race Two of the prestigious Grand Prix de Pau, in France, a round of the British F3 International Series for 2006. In the 2006 F3 international meetings, Conway's skill was not quite so good. After qualifying in 12th, he retired after fifteen laps of the twenty-five lap BP Ultimate Masters, while at the Macau Grand Prix, after qualifying 11th, he finished 7th in the qualifying race, before taking advantage of his rivals' problems to become the first British driver to win the Grand Prix since Darren Manning in 1999.

He also made his GP2 debut at Silverstone in June 2006, when he replaced the injured Olivier Pla in the first DPR Direxiv car. Having stalled at the start of Race One, he battled home to a very respectable 11th place, and in Race Two, he finished 11th again. For the 2007 season, Conway has agreed to drive for David Sears' Super Nova team, after impressing in a test for them.

• Official web page
• Mike Conway career statistics
• Interview
• Interview (Keith Collantine, Auto Trader)
• Mike Conway is presented with his trophy for winning the 2006 British F3 International Series

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