List of Macau Grand Prix winners
The Macau Grand Prix (Portuguese: Grande Prémio de Macau; Chinese: 澳門格蘭披治大賽車) is an annual automobile road event for single seater racing cars that has been held every third or fourth weekend of November on the Guia Circuit in the streets of the territory of Macau.[1][2] It was founded in 1954 by Fernando Macedo Pinto, Carlos da Silva and Paulo Antas as a local treasure hunt for car enthusiasts in the Pearl River Delta territory,[3][4] but Swiss expatriate Paul Dutoit suggested that the route be used for local professional motor races.[4][5] The race has variously been held to sports car, Formula Libre, Formula Pacific, Formula 3 (F3) and Formula 4 (F4) regulations throughout its history,[6][7] and drivers consider it an event to progress to higher class series such as Formula One.[8] The event is composed of two races: an eight-lap qualifying race to decide the starting order for the twelve-lap main event. Each winner is presented with a trophy at a ceremony on a podium following the conclusion of both events and the final results of the main race determines the winner.[a][10]
John MacDonald holds the record for the most Macau Grand Prix victories, having won the race four times. There have been eight drivers who have achieved two victories in Macau: Jan Bussell, António Félix da Costa, Arsenio Laurel, Geoff Lees, Edoardo Mortara, Riccardo Patrese, Felix Rosenqvist and Dan Ticktum. Six drivers have won the race twice in succession but none have claimed three or more consecutive victories. Laurel was the first driver to achieve consecutive victories when he won the 1962 and 1963 races. MacDonald holds the record for the longest period of time between two race victories–seven years between the 1965 and 1972 events. He also has the record for the longest period of time between his first Grand Prix win and his last–ten years between the 1965 and 1975 iterations. It has been won by British drivers 14 times, followed by Hong Kong racers with 9 wins and Italian competitors with 5 victories. Theodore Racing have the highest number of victories of any team in each of six motor racing regulations the race has been held to with 8, followed by Team TOM'S with 5.[11][12] Ticktum is the youngest winner of the Macau Grand Prix; he was 18 years and 5 months old when he won the 2017 race.[13]
As of the 2021 edition, there have been 55 race winners in the 68 editions of the Macau Grand Prix. The first winner of the Macau Grand Prix was the local driver Eduardo de Carvalho at the 1954 sports car event, and the most recent competitor to achieve their first victory in the territory was Hon Chio Leong of Macau who took his first win in the 2020 F4 race.[11][12] Leong went on to become the first local driver to win the Grand Prix twice in succession in the 2021 event.[14] The first competitor to win the Grand Prix held to F3 regulations was the Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna for the West Surrey Racing team in the 1983 edition.[1] Winners of the qualifying races, the support events and the Macau motorcycle Grand Prix are not included in this list.[11][12]
Winners[edit]
Records[edit]
By driver[edit]
Name | Wins | Years |
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John MacDonald | 4 | 1965, 1972, 1973, 1975 |
Jan Bussell | 2 | 1968, 1971 |
António Félix da Costa | 2 | 2012, 2016 |
Arsenio Laurel | 2 | 1962, 1963 |
Geoff Lees | 2 | 1979, 1980 |
Hon Chio Leong | 2 | 2020, 2021 |
Edoardo Mortara | 2 | 2009, 2010 |
Felix Rosenqvist | 2 | 2014, 2015 |
Vern Schuppan | 2 | 1974, 1976 |
Dan Ticktum | 2 | 2017, 2018 |
By nationality[edit]
Nationality | Wins | Drivers |
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United Kingdom | 14 | 12 |
Hong Kong | 9 | 6 |
Italy | 5 | 3 |
Brazil | 4 | 4 |
Germany | 4 | 4 |
France | 4 | 4 |
Australia | 4 | 3 |
Macau | 4 | 3 |
Singapore | 3 | 2 |
Sweden | 3 | 2 |
Japan | 2 | 2 |
Philippines | 2 | 1 |
Portugal | 2 | 1 |
Austria | 1 | 1 |
Belgium | 1 | 1 |
Denmark | 1 | 1 |
Ireland | 1 | 1 |
Malaysia | 1 | 1 |
Netherlands | 1 | 1 |
Spain | 1 | 1 |
United States | 1 | 1 |
By entrant[edit]
Entrant | Wins | Drivers |
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Theodore Racing | 8 | 7 |
Team TOM'S | 5 | 5 |
Prema Powerteam | 3 | 3 |
WTS Racing | 3 | 3 |
Carlin | 3 | 2 |
Signature Plus | 3 | 2 |
ASM | 2 | 2 |
Bob Harper Racing | 2 | 2 |
Paul Stewart Racing | 2 | 2 |
West Surrey Racing | 2 | 2 |
Motopark Academy | 2 | 1 |
Smart Life Racing | 2 | 1 |
Bertram Schäfer Racing | 1 | 1 |
Bowman Racing | 1 | 1 |
BMW | 1 | 1 |
C. L. Choon | 1 | 1 |
Forti Corse | 1 | 1 |
Graff Racing | 1 | 1 |
Hayashi Racing | 1 | 1 |
Intersport Racing | 1 | 1 |
Madgwick Motorsport | 1 | 1 |
Manor Motorsport | 1 | 1 |
Martin Redfern | 1 | 1 |
MP Motorsport | 1 | 1 |
Mücke Motorsport | 1 | 1 |
Räikkönen Robertson Racing | 1 | 1 |
Ron Hardwick | 1 | 1 |
RSM Marko | 1 | 1 |
Volkswagen Motorsport | 1 | 1 |
Notes[edit]
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