Martin Rowe

Martin Rowe (born 24 June 1971) is a British and Manx rally driver who won the British Rally Championship in 1998, the British Formula Rally Championship in 2001, Production World Rally Championship in 2003 and the Chinese Rally Championship in 2006.

Alongside his title in the British Rally Championship in 1998, Rowe took the Formula Rally Championship in 2001 driving a Ford Puma S1600 after original champion, Justin Dale, his co-driver Andrew Bargery, and winning manufacturer Peugeot were excluded due to a homologation issue in the final round which affected both Proton and Peugeot. With Dale later losing his appeal, Rowe was awarded the drivers title and Chris Wood the co-drivers title.

In 1998 and 2003 Rowe was named as the National Rally Driver of the Year.

Racing record

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos	Points
1994	Peugeot Sport Great Britain	Peugeot 306 S16	MON	POR	KEN	FRA	GRC	ARG	NZL	FIN	ITA	GBR 14					NC	0
1997	Renault Dealer Rallying UK	Renault Mégane Maxi	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN	INA	ITA	AUS	GBR Ret	NC	0
1998	Renault Dealer Rallying UK	Renault Mégane Maxi	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA 14	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN	ITA Ret	AUS	GBR Ret		NC	0
1999	Renault Elf Dealer Rallying	Renault Mégane Maxi	MON	SWE	KEN	POR 19	ESP	FRA Ret	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN 19	CHN	ITA\| 17	AUS 10	GBR 18	NC	0
2001	Martin Rowe	Ford Puma S1600	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG	CYP	GRC	KEN	FIN Ret	NZL	ITA 25	FRA	AUS	GBR Ret	NC	0
2002	Martin Rowe	Ford Puma S1600	MON Ret			ESP 30			GRC 24	KEN		GER 19	ITA Ret			GBR Ret	NC	0
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII					CYP Ret	ARG			FIN Ret			NZL 15	AUS 21
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI		SWE 38
David Sutton Cars Ltd			FRA 21
2003	David Sutton Cars Ltd	Subaru Impreza STi N8	MON	SWE 29	TUR	NZL 18	ARG	GRC									NC	0
Subaru Impreza STi N10							CYP 10	GER 24	FIN	AUS 15	ITA	FRA 18	ESP	GBR Ret

JWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos	Points
2002	Martin Rowe	Ford Puma S1600	MON Ret	ESP 10	GRE 5	GER 5	ITA Ret	GBR Ret	11th	4

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos	Points
2002	Martin Rowe	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII			CYP Ret	ARG	KEN	FIN Ret	NZL 2	AUS 5	6th	13
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	SWE 6
David Sutton Cars Ltd		FRA 3
2003	David Sutton Cars Ltd	Subaru Impreza STi N8	SWE 3	NZL 4	ARG						1st	43
Subaru Impreza STi N10				CYP 2	GER 2	AUS 1	FRA 3

Awards and achievements
Preceded byMark Higgins	Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 1998	Succeeded byTapio Laukkanen
Preceded byJustin Dale	Autosport National Rally Driver of the Year 2003	Succeeded byGuy Wilks