Harrison
Newey
United Kingdom
·
Formula Racing
Date of birth | 25 July 1998 |
|---|---|
Place of birth | Oxford |
Age | 27 |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Disciplines | Junior Formula Series Various |
Motor racing was always likely to be a strong career option for Harrison Newey, given that his father, Adrian, has been designing F1 cars since long before Harrison was born.
With that grounding in motor sports, it’s little surprise that Harrison has the taste for racing and he started out in time-honoured fashion in karting in the Easykart UK (cadet level) back in 2009.
From there he progressed through Formula Kart Stars, Super 1 National Comer Cadets, Super 1 National KF3, CIK-FIA International Super Cup and the German Kart Championship.
Formula 4 was the first stop for Harrison on the big tracks and having got a taste of it in 2014 he went win to finish second overall in the 2015 BRDC Formula 4 Championship for HHC Motorsport, with two wins and 12 podiums.
In 2016, Harrison won the 16-race MRF Challenge Formula 2000 driving a Dallara Formulino Pro and also appeared in Formula 3.
Success followed in 2017-18 when he won the Asian Le Mans Series in an Oreca 05 and he finished second in the same series in 2019, driving a Ligier JS P2.
Also in 2019, Harrison moved into Super Formula in Japan, racing for the B-MAX with Motopark team in both that series (described by Red Bull’s head of driver development Helmut Marko as: “a very impressive field and a good training ground for Formula 1.”) and in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship.
In 2020, Harrison appeared in the WeaherTech Sports Car Championship and won the first race of that series – the Daytona 24 Hours – on his US debut and only his second-ever 24-hour race