Mitch Evans is a racing driver and TV personality from New Zealand. He is best known for winning Zealand Grand Prix in February 2011, thus becoming the youngest international Grand Prix winner at the age of 16.
Born Name
Mitchell William Evans
Nick Name
Mitch
Mitch Evans in an Instagram post as seen in August 2019 (Mitch Evans / Instagram)
Sun Sign
Cancer
Born Place
Auckland, New Zealand
Nationality
Education
He attended Saint Kentigern College in Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, but had to drop out at the age of 16 to pursue his racing career overseas.
Occupation
Racing Driver, TV Personality
Family
Father – Owen Evans (Former Racing Driver)
Mother – Trace Evans
Siblings – Simon Evans (Older Brother) (Racing Driver), Laura Evans (Older Sister)
Others – He has a nephew.
Manager
Mitch Evans is represented by Mark Webber (Manager).
Car Number
20 – Jaguar
Build
Athletic
Height
5 ft 7 in or 170 cm
Weight
65 kg or 143.5 lbs
Mitch Evans as seen in September 2019 (Mitch Evans / Instagram)
Mitch Evans as seen in September 2017 (Jaguar MENA / Flickr / CC BY-2.0)
Mitch Evans Facts
His dad once held a New Zealand land-speed record of just under 350 km/h. His last attempt ended with a crash and he spent 3 months in the hospital fighting for his life in 1996.
At the age of 4, he went down to the track with his older brother without telling their mom and started go-kart racing.
One of his main financial backers is Colin Giltrap, entrepreneur and founder of the luxury car dealership, Monaco Motors. Colin also financially backed racing drivers Chris van der Drift, Scott Dixon, and Brendon Hartley.
Mark Webber, a former Australian racing driver for F1 and later his mentor and manager, persuaded him to move to the United Kingdom and live with him in 2011. If it wasn’t for him, Mitch admitted he would “probably be racing V8 supercars in Australia or trying his hand at Indycar.”
Mitch Evans is the 1st driver Mark Webber ever managed. They met in 2009, at the Australian GP. Even though Mitch was very tempted by a good offer from Ferrari, he ultimately went with Mark.
He bought Rafael Nadal‘s book titled Rafa: My Story in December 2012. His friends teased him with “you get someone to read it to you?” and “I will be amazed if you make it past the first 10 pages before it gets shoved under your bed” because he is not an avid reader.
In 2012, Mark Webber predicted that Mitch would move from GP3 to GP2 next year. Mark’s prediction was correct and in the 1st racing weekend of the GP2 2013 season, Mitch raced at Sepang in Malaysia.
Unfortunately, he suffered food poisoning in Malaysia and had problems with handling in the 1st race. Regardless of the struggle, Mitch won 3rd place in the 2nd race, and at the age of 18, became the youngest GP2 driver on the podium.
After he made his debut for Jaguar Racing in 2016, he decided to remain in Formula E. Initially, he thought not getting to Formula 1 would haunt him for the rest of his life because it was his end goal since he started racing.
