John MacDonald (born 27 May 1936) is a racing car driver and a motor-cycle racer of

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

. He was originally from

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, where he started his career racing motorcycles, then cars until he served at the

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. 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 The Macau Grand Prix ( pt, Grande Prémio de Macau; ) is a motorsport road race for automobiles and motorcycles held annually in Macau. It is the only street circuit racing event in which both cars and motorcycles participate, and one of onl ...

during the early 1970s. He is the only person to have won all the international races of Macau;

(1965, 1972, 1973 and 1975), Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix (1969) and

Guia Race The WTCR Race of Macau, previously Guia Race of Macau and WTCC Guia Race of Macau, is an international touring car race, and currently a round of the World Touring Car Cup. It is held on the temporary 6.2 km Guia Circuit on the streets of Mac ...

(1972). 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. In addition to his Macau victories, MacDonald won the

Malaysian Grand Prix The Malaysian Grand Prix (officially the Malaysia Grand Prix from 1963–1965 and 2011–2017 and Malayan Grand Prix in 1962) was an annual auto race held in Malaysia. It was part of the Formula One World Championship from 1999 to 2017 and it ...

four times. He also won the 1976 Indonesian Grand Prix.

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1936 births British emigrants to Hong Kong English motorcycle racers English racing drivers Hong Kong racing drivers Living people Hong Kong people of British descent Sportspeople from Worcester, England {{Autoracing-bio-stub