FIA Platinum previously Johnny Mowlem (born 12 February 1969) is a professional British racing driver.
He is the 2013 European Le Mans Series GT champion, having previously won the British Porsche Cup championship in 1996 and 1997.
Later in his career he gained further international attention for his work as a driver of the hybrid-powered Ginetta Zytek prototype racer in the ALMS in 2008 and 2009.
Mowlem also operates his own driving academy, working with both corporate clients and drivers wishing for a career in racing.
He attended Leeds University where he achieved a joint Honors BA degree in Spanish and Economics.
Divorced in 2021, he was married to actress Fiona McLean for 24 years and has two children; a son named Reece and a daughter, Sereina.
Mowlem's effort was all the more remarkable as his training was limited by a torn Achilles tendon suffered three months earlier.
[1] Mowlem started his racing career in 1990, at age 19, when he competed in Formula Ford 1600 at Brands Hatch.
Mowlem partnered with Randy Pobst to finish second in the GT class at Le Mans in 2002.
Mowlem won the GT class and again finished second overall at Daytona in 2004, driving with Robin Liddell, Mike Fitzgerald and Jay and Joe Policastro.
He also competed in several Rolex Sports Car Series events in the United States during those seasons and, including trips for testing sessions, crossed the Atlantic Ocean about 100 times during those two years.
Mowlem showed his adaptability during the 2006 season, racing an Aston Martin DBRS9 for Autosport Design Racing in the SPEED World Challenge GT series as well as competing in the International GT Open series in a Porsche and in two different classes in the ALMS.
Teamed with former Formula One driver Stefan Johansson and Japanese Haruki Kurosawa, Mowlem finished second overall in the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta and nearly won the season finale from pole position, again with Johansson, at the newly renamed Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
He also drove for the Risi Competizione Ferrari team as their third driver alongside Mika Salo and Jaime Melo in the longer endurance races.
At Le Mans in 2007, Salo/Melo/Mowlem were leading their class by 3 laps when Melo had an accident, spinning on an oil slick seventeen hours in the event.
Mowlem's continuing association with the Zytek team resulted in a joint effort to race a hybrid-powered car in the P1 class in ALMS.
The effort made history when Mowlem qualified the car third and finished third in the P1 class in a race at Lime Rock Park.
Mowlem put the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports car on the LMP Challenge class pole with a new track record lap averaging 103.558 mph.
He joined the Dyson Racing LMP1 effort, driving the Thetford/RACER Lola Mazda at Virginia International Raceway, co-driving with Guy Smith.
Will also compete in a Ferrari 458 GT3 for the factory-supported FF Corse in the European Le Mans GT3 Cup Championship.
Mowlem became a well-known name in Britcar, after racing with FF Corse in Ferraris with Welsh driver Bonamy Grimes, in 2016 he claimed pole positions in his class at every venue he attended.