John MacDonald (born 27 May 1936) is a racing car driver and a motor-cycle racer of Hong Kong.[1] He was originally from England, where he started his career racing motorcycles, then cars until he served at the National service.[2] 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.[1]

He is the only person to have won all the international races of Macau; Macau Grand Prix (1965, 1972,[3] 1973[4] and 1975), Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix (1969) and Guia Race (1972).[1] 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.[1]

In addition to his Macau victories, MacDonald won the Malaysian Grand Prix four times.[5] He also won the 1976 Indonesian Grand Prix.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "TAKING THE TRIPLE: JOHN MACDONALD" (PDF). www.macau.grandprix.gov.mo.
  2. ↑ "Motorsport People". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2009.
  3. ↑ "520 entries". New Straits Times. 16 November 1973. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  4. ↑ "Sports in brief". Bangor Daily News. 19 November 1973. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  5. ↑ Wood, Ida (4 November 2019). "What if the Motorsport Games had taken place 50 years ago?". Formula Scout. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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