Cameron McConville

V8 Supercar Driver
Name = Cameron McConville


Caption =
Nationality = flagicon|AUS Australian
Car number = 14
Team = Brad Jones Racing
Championships = 0
Races = 119
Wins = 1 (Winton 2004)
Podiums = 4
Poles = 0
2007 Championship position = 34th (35 pts)

Cameron McConville (b. Melbourne, 22 January, 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian V8 Supercar racing driver.

McConville is currently active in the V8 Supercar championship where he was contracted to Team WOW in car number 14.

Early years

McConville began his motor racing career at the age of eight racing go-karts in first local then national championships, culminating in several Victorian titles. At the age of fifteen, he became the youngest ever holder of a CAMS racing licence with a brief foray into Formula Vee racing before moving onto the highly competitive Formula Ford racing category in 1991. In 1992 he was chosen to be the 'works' Van Diemen driver and he won the prestigious 'Driver to Europe' national Formula Ford title beating future champions such as Craig Lowndes and Steven Richards. This victory (he was the youngest ever winner of the series) drew national attention and a testing role at Dick Johnson Racing as well as some practice laps at the Bathurst 1000 in a Ford Sierra that year. A solid performance meant he was invited back to the Dick Johnson Racing team for 1993 where he paired with Paul Radisich in the second team car. Unfortunately, whilst in third position, and gaining on the leaders, he crashed heavily in the Esses just below Brock's Skyline. This proved to be costly to his stellar rise.

After several years of driving for lesser teams, his persistence finally paid off when he teamed up with prominent businessman Tom Warwick to drive a Porsche 993 RSCS in the Australian GTP championship during the 1996 season. He won the series in the last race of the year beating championship favourite Jim Richards. In 1997 he was chosen to replace Greg Murphy as the Audi Australia 'works' driver (largely due to his success the previous year) where he finished third in the Australian Super Touring Championship. In 1998 he was narrowly beaten to the championship by team owner Brad Jones in somewhat controversial circumstances.

V8 Supercar Career

An impressive part time drive in the 1999 V8 supercar championship saw the Holden Racing Team offer McConville an endurance co-drive, pairing up with the then championship leader Craig Lowndes. Together they finished in second place at the Bathurst 1000 race. This performance earned him a full time contract with the newly-founded Rod Nash racing for 2000. In 2001 he moved to the Sydney-based Lansvale racing team where he continued to impress in under-funded, less-developed machinery. He remained with the team until he was offered a contract with the Garry Rogers Motorsport outfit in 2004 after he was the outright winner of the Bathurst 24 hour race in 2002 in a Holden Monaro driving for the same team. The move to the Garry Rogers team proved fruitful for McConville when he took his first championship race win at Winton Raceway in 2004. In 2005 he took on team leader status at GRM with the departure of Garth Tander to the HSV dealer team. The following year, McConville was lured to Kees and Paul Weel's Supercheap Auto Racing outfit to pair with Greg Murphy after the retirement of Paul Weel in 2005.

In 2007, Cameron began a new motorsport reporting role with Channel Ten, including co-hosting the Formula One coverage. [http://www.ten.com.au/ten/rpm-crew-cameron-mcconville.html]

In 2008, he will drive for his former boss Brad Jones in the number 14 Team WOW VE Commodore. Team BOC has made the switch from Ford to Holden with the support of Walkinshaw Performance in the pursuit of better results, WOW Sight and Sound has signed on as McConville's major sponsor for the 2008 championship. McConville immediately highlighted the new relationship with an excellent third at the Adelaide 500.

Career results

External links

* [http://www.wowracing.com.au/ WOW Racing official site (Brad Jones Racing)]
* [http://www.teamboc.com.au/ Team BOC official site (2008 Teammate, Andrew Jones - Brad Jones Racing)]
* [http://www.holdenmotorsport.com/ Holden Motorsport]