He previously raced for the Brabham Motorsport team and won the 2021 British Endurance Championship in a McLaren GT3.

[2][3][4] Powell's career began[5] working as a road tester for Autocar and Haymarket Media Group.

[8] He was formerly a factory driver for the motorsport division of Anglo-American sports car company Brabham Automotive.

[20] In the same year, it was announced by Maximum Motorsport that Powell would drive its Hyundai i30N in the TCR UK touring car championship.

[21][22] He competed in six of the ten race weekends that made up the 2022 BTCC Championship in a CUPRA Leon as late replacement for Jack Goff.