{{short description|British racing driver (born 1968)}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP one source|date=December 2025}} {{No significant coverage (sports)|date=October 2025}} }} {{Infobox racing driver | name = Darren Dowling | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|2|22|df=y}} | nationality = {{flagicon|GBR}} British | module1 = {{Infobox BTCC record|embed=yes | Team = BTC Racing | Championships = 0 | Wins = 0 | Podiums = 0 | Poles = 0 | fastest_laps = 0 | first_year = 2006 | First win = - | Best position = 27th (2006) | Last season = 2006 | Last position = 27th (0 points) }} }} '''Darren Dowling''' (born 22 February 1968 in Watford) is a British racing driver.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Darren Dowling |url=https://insidebtcc.com/drivers/darren-dowling/ |access-date=2025-11-02 |website=insidebtcc.com}}</ref>
__TOC__ ==Career==
===British Touring Car Championship===
Dowling drove the final six rounds of the British Touring Car Championship in 2006.<ref name=":0" /> He raced in a Lexus IS200 for the newly formed BTC Racing team alongside team-mate Chris Stockton. His best ever finish was a fourteenth position at Silverstone, ending the season with no points. The team continued in 2007, but he was replaced by Nick Leason.{{citation needed|date=December 2025}} {{clear right}}
==Racing record==
===Complete British Touring Car Championship results=== (key) (Races in '''bold''' indicate pole position - 1 point awarded in first race) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap - 1 point awarded all races) (<nowiki>*</nowiki> signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap - 1 point awarded all races)
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%" ! Year ! Team ! Car ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! 17 ! 18 ! 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! 22 ! 23 ! 24 ! 25 ! 26 ! 27 ! 28 ! 29 ! 30 ! DC ! Pts |- | 2006 ! nowrap| BTC Racing ! nowrap| Lexus IS200 | BRH<br>1<br> | BRH<br>2<br> | BRH<br>3<br> | MON<br>1<br> | MON<br>2<br> | MON<br>3<br> | OUL<br>1<br> | OUL<br>2<br> | OUL<br>3<br> | THR<br>1<br> | THR<br>2<br> | THR<br>3<br> | CRO<br>1<br> | CRO<br>2<br> | CRO<br>3<br> | DON<br>1<br> | DON<br>2<br> | DON<br>3<br> | SNE<br>1<br> | SNE<br>2<br> | SNE<br>3<br> | KNO<br>1<br> | KNO<br>2<br> | KNO<br>3<br> |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| BRH<br>1<br>{{small|16}} |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| BRH<br>2<br>{{small|Ret}} |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| BRH<br>3<br>{{small|15}} |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| SIL<br>1<br>{{small|20}} |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| SIL<br>2<br>{{small|14}} |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| SIL<br>3<br>{{small|Ret}} | '''27th''' | '''0''' |}
===24 Hours of Silverstone results=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%" |- ! Year ! Team ! Co-Drivers ! Car ! {{Tooltip|Car No.|Car number}} ! Class ! Laps ! {{Tooltip|Pos.|Overall Position}} ! {{Tooltip|Class<br/>Pos.|Class Position}} |- style="text-align:center;" ! 2010 |align="left" nowrap| {{flagicon|GBR}} GTF-MCC |align="left" nowrap| {{flagicon|GBR}} Fred Tonge<br/>{{flagicon|GBR}} Sam Head<br/>{{flagicon|GBR}} Tim Hood<br/>{{flagicon|GBR}} Steve Glynn |align="left" nowrap| TVR Sagaris | 7 | 1 | 369 | 49th | 5th |- style="text-align:center;" ! 2011 |align="left" nowrap| {{flagicon|GBR}} GTF Racing |align="left" nowrap| {{flagicon|GBR}} Fred Tonge<br/>{{flagicon|GBR}} Steve Glynn<br/>{{flagicon|GBR}} David Mason<br/>{{flagicon|GBR}} Paul Smith |align="left" nowrap| TVR Sagaris | 28 | 2 | 71 | DNF | DNF |- style="text-align:center;" |}
===Post-BTCC=== Recently Dowling has driven in the BRSCC Sports and Saloon Car Trophy in a TVR Sagaris.{{Citation needed|date=November 2025}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907092647/http://www.btccpages.com/driv/dowlingdarren.php BTCC Pages profile.]
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