BTCC supremo and 24-hour 2CV racer
BACK IN ISSUE ONE, EVO INTERVIEWED Alan Gow – perhaps crudely dubbing him ‘BTCC’s answer to Bernie Ecclestone’ – just as he was lifting British Touring Cars to their ascendancy. ‘It was never my desire to work in motorsport,’ he admits a quarter of a century later as he winds back through the journey that’s led him to seats on numerous FIA committees.
‘I first got hooked on motorsport when a friend of my sister’s took me to Calder Park Raceway in Melbourne in my early teens. It was a contemporary race meet: Holdens, Falcons and some Minis. I couldn’t tell you any of the drivers I saw that day but it was new, exciting, and I knew I wanted to get more involved. I didn’t know in the slightest it’s what my life would end up revolving around. I knew I wanted to be around cars, but I thought that would be as a car dealer. Motorsport was always going to be a hobby.’
Gow did initially follow the trade route, selling cars and
