Mark Dagnall

Mark Dagnall (born 23 July, 1992 in Oxford, England) is a British racing driver who has won the Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series Drivers' Championship on three separate occasions in 2013, 2014, and 2015. He currently holds the record for the most career wins as well as the most wins in both a single and debut season, all with 7. He is the son of former Formula One driver Chris Dagnall and brother of Formula 1 driver Bradley Dagnall. Dagnall currently drives for Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois in ARWS.

Career

For the first three years of his F1RWRS career, Dagnall drove for his father's team - firstly Dagnall Engineering before being renamed DGNgineering after the first year. The team and Mark were able to dominate the series and secured both championships in 2013 and 14. In 2015, Dagnall's father Chris announced his team would be leaving F1RWRS to focus on an F1 effort and for the last four races Mark switched to the Australian MRT team where he was able to clinch his third consecutive drivers' title.

In 2016 Dagnall joined MRT full-time but the season was plagued with reliability issues. The car, much like the DGNgineering cars before it that Mark had driven, was one of the fastest on the grid but the British triple champion could only manage two race finishes all year, a race win at the US South GP and a fifth place in Monaco. The unsuccessful year left Dagnall disgruntled with MRT's management and well before the end of the season he entered into negotiations with other teams in an attempt to secure himself better machinery for 2017. Ultimately he signed for Jones Racing, who had taken another former MRT driver, Rhys Davies to his first and only F1RWRS title in 2016.

Dagnall began his time at Jones with five wins in the 2017 season, but reliability problems and errors saw him miss out on the title to Thomas De Bock and he finished runner-up overall with 55 points. His efforts ensured Jones secured the Constructors' Championship for the first time in their history too. His second year at Jones was more erratic than the first. Two costly errors of judgement saw Dagnall banned from two separate races, and the under-powered Ford engine meant he played second fiddle to the Fusion, MRT and Voeckler cars for much of the season.

Personal life

Dagnall is a close personal friend of Formula One driver Kevin Magnussen, having grown up together when their fathers were teammates at Stewart Grand Prix.

Complete F1RWRS & ARWS Results

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Pts
2013	Dagnall Engineering	Dagnall CD-01	Zakspeed 1500	TAS 1	AUS 1	MEX Ret	USA Ret	MON Ret	FRA 1	GBR 1	GER Ret	NED 3	BEL 1	POR 1	MED Ret	MAC 9	CHN Ret	JPN 7	BRA 1			1st	74
2014	DGNgineering	DGNgineering CD-02	Zakspeed 1500	TAS 2	AUS Ret	BRA 2	MEX 1	USA 2	MON Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	BEL 1	ITA Ret	MED 1	NED Ret	MAC 3	CHN 1	JPN 1			1st	72
2015	DGNgineering	DGNgineering CD-03	Chrysler 1294A	TAS Ret	AUS 2	MED 1	MON 1	MEX 1	USA 1	CAN Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	BEL Ret	AUT Ret	ITA Ret							1st	76
	Virgin Melrose Racing Team	MRT M6	BMW P90													NED 1	CHN Ret	JPN 1	BRA 1
2016	Virgin Melrose Racing Team	MRT M7	BMW P90/16	AUS Ret	NSW Ret	GBR Ret	ITA Ret	AUT Ret	CAN Ret	USS 1	USN Ret	GER Ret	NED Ret	MON 5	BEL Ret	MEX Ret	ARG Ret	CHN Ret	JPN Ret			14th	12
2017	National Jones Ford Team	Jones 109	Ford XR8C	AUS Ret	NSW Ret	GBR 4	ITA 1	AUT Ret	CAN 1	USS 5†	USN 1	GER 1	NED Ret	BEL Ret	MON Ret	MOR Ret	ARG 1	JPN Ret	CHN 7†			2nd	55
2018	National Jones Ford Team	Jones 114	Ford XR8D	AUS Ret	NSW EX	ITA 5	MAR 1	CAL EX	USA 2	CAN Ret	GBR Ret	AUT 3	GER Ret	SCA 7	BEL Ret	MON Ret	RSA 2	BRA Ret	ARG 2	JPN Ret	CHN Ret	5th	38
2019	Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois	Kjellerup 019	Renault RSXXII-19	AUS Ret	NSW 1	KIN Ret	ITA 1	MAR 5	CAN 1	USA Ret	GBR 1	AUT 2	GER 2	SCA Ret	BEL 1	MON 3	RSA Ret	BRA 1	ARG Ret	JPN 2	CHN 1	2nd	98
2020	Kjellerup by Écurie Prenois	Kjellerup 020	Renault RSXXII-20	AUS Ret	NSW 1	ARG C	BRA C	500 C	CAN C	GBR C	BEL C	MON C	ITA C	AUT C	GER C	SAF C	INA C	MAL C	PAC C	JPN C	CHN C	2nd	10

• * Season in progress
• † Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Sporting Accolades
Preceded by: Pippa Mann 2012	F1RWRS Champion 2013-2015	Succeeded by: Rhys Davies 2016