About
Wes McDougall
McDougall Racing Developments
Wes started in motorsport with Borland Racing Developments as a junior engineer in 1995 whilst still at high school. During his time at Borland Racing he worked as an engineer on Formula Fords, serviced and dynoed dampers and looked after data logging systems, all while completing a Mechanical Engineering degree at Monash University. Whilst at BRD, he engineered numerous cars and worked with drivers of such ilk, as Jason Bargwanna, Will Power and Mark Winterbottom.
Upon completion of his engineering degree, Wes took a job at Lister Cars in England as a race engineer in 2003 where he worked on the company's Lister Storm GT car (in the FIA GT Championship) and the LMP variant which he engineered at the Le Mans 24 hours twice. As well as winning multiple races with the team he also oversaw the wind tunnel refinement of the LMP car.
Wes returned to Australia in 2005 to work as a V8 Supercar Data Engineer with Stone Brothers Racing for Marcos Ambrose. Shortly afterwards he was promoted to Race Engineer for James Courtney and during his time with SBR worked with some of the categories most prolific drivers such as Ambrose, Ingall, Courtney, Slade, Holdsworth, Davison and van Gisbergen.
Wes is renowned for his ability to nurture young drivers and has engineered several young drivers to their first podiums including James Courtney, Alex Davison and Tim Slade.
When SBR morphed into Erebus he was promoted to Technical Director and oversaw the engineering of the AMG E63 Supercar, culminating in two race victories in 2014 and 2015.
Currently, Wes works with a number of professional race teams in Australia, in such categories as Supercars, GT Championship and Carrera Cup. In addition to this, Wes manages the MF1 Simulator at MR Driver Development.
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