John MacDonald (racing driver)

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John MacDonald (born 27 May 1936) is a racing car driver and a motor-cycle racer of Hong Kong. He was originally from England, where he started his career racing motorcycles, then cars until he served at the National service. He then lived in Hong Kong and raced as a competitor of Hong Kong, where he owned a garage business. He is best known as the most successful driver in the Macau Grand Prix during the early 1970s.

He is the only person to have won all the international races of Macau; Macau Grand Prix (1965, 1972, 1973 and 1975), Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix (1969) and Guia Race (1972). He is also the winner of the most Macau Grand Prix competitions, with 4 wins, and the first winner of the Guia Race in 1972.

In addition to his Macau victories, MacDonald won the Malaysian Grand Prix four times. He also won the 1976 Indonesian Grand Prix.

References

^ "TAKING THE TRIPLE: JOHN MACDONALD" (PDF). www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo.
"Motorsport People". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
"520 entries". New Straits Times. 16 November 1973. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
"Sports in brief". Bangor Daily News. 19 November 1973. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
Wood, Ida (4 November 2019). "What if the Motorsport Games had taken place 50 years ago?". Formula Scout. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

Sporting positions
Preceded byAlbert Poon	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1965	Succeeded byMauro Bianchi
Preceded byHiroshi Hasegawa	Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix Winner 1969	Succeeded byBenny Hidajat
Preceded byJan Bussell	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1972 - 1973	Succeeded byVern Schuppan
Preceded byVern Schuppan	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1975	Succeeded byVern Schuppan
Preceded bynone	Guia Race winner 1972	Succeeded byPeter Chow

v t e Macau Grand Prix winners
Four-time	John MacDonald
Two-time	Jan Bussell António Félix da Costa Arsenio Laurel Geoff Lees Hon Chio Leong Edoardo Mortara Riccardo Patrese Felix Rosenqvist Vern Schuppan Dan Ticktum
One-time	Ayari Bartlett Bertaggia Bianchi Brabham Browning Chang Choun Conway Coulthard Couto de Carvalho di Grassi Donnelly Dumbreck Earl Firman Gommendy Gugelmin Hardwick Heath Jarvis Juncadella Kunimoto Lapierre Lynn Maassen Manning Maw Moreno Müller Nielsen Pateman Poon Prémat Quester Redfern Ritchie Rydell Sato M. Schumacher R. Schumacher Senna Steane Ugochukwu Verschoor Wallace

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