Nissan Nismo finally dropped the bomb and now it is confirmed: Oliver Rowland will be the driver taking Norman Nato’s place in the team starting 2024. Expected for some, surprising for others… what do you think? Was there a better option?

Anyway, it is official now, and that is why I’m glad to bring you this 5 facts that you probably didn’t know… about Oliver Rowland.

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Oliver Eric Rowland from Yorkshire England started racing professionally in 2010 at the age of 18 in the British Winter Renault formula, with CRS RAcing team, ending up in 7th place on his debut year.

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He can be considered the king of Renault series, since he participated every year from 2010 until 2015 in the British, Eurocup, 2.0 and 3.5 versions of the Renault Formula. He also got two Renaullt Formula titles, one in 2011 and the other one in 2015, and he had the chance to share the paddock with Pierre Gasly, Roberto Merhi, Nyck DeVries among other racing stars.

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He’s one of the many FE drivers that knows a thing or two about Endurance racing, since he participated in two races of the FIA World Endurance Championship of 2018, including the Le Mans 24 hrs.

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In 2017 He founded his own karting team called Oliver Rowland Motorsport. They started to do quite well from the beginning, since they won a lot of karting championships in 2018.

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No, it’s not a deja’vu, Oliver raced for Mahindra Racing team back in 2016 and also for the Nissan e.dams team from 2019 to 2021 before going back to Mahindra and spend one and a half seasons that… yeah, we know how that ended.

Extra fact
He turned 31 years old last August 10th and he’s a leo…

… In case you needed to know.