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Ryan McConkey

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Superleague Career
Nationality	American
Active Years	8
Team(s)	MMC Racing Synergetic Motorsports Woods Racing Constant Racing Stealth Grand Prix SCUM Molotov F1
Grand Prix	34
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	3
Fastest laps	2
First Grand Prix	2003 Australian Grand Prix
First Win
Last Win
Last Grand Prix	2009 Dutch Grand Prix

Ryan McConkey (born September 27, 1985 in Missoula, Montana, United States) is a long-standing member of the GPVWC and has competed in all the leagues competitive series since 2003. He is currently test/reserve driver with Synergetic Motorsports.

Ryan also managed his own team...

Beginnings

McConkey began his racing career during the summer of 2002. Having just installed Grand Prix 4, he began looking for on-line racing communities that he could join. Grand Prix 4 had just come out, so leagues for it were fairly sparse at the time, but McConkey joined one titled GP4League. Having joined the MolotovF1 team owned by Mariano Malisani, he raced in the last few events of the season and made somewhat of a splash with the admin over whether that admin was cheating or not. McConkey only took part in a handful of races, but apparently made an impression on the track as well. Malisani was looking to put a team in the GPVWC when it switched to GP4, therefore he asked McConkey if he wanted to drive for him there. Ryan accepted the offer, but only raced a few grands prix for MolotovF1. GPVWC collapsed soon after and most of the teams disappeared. McConkey was without a drive, so he went to race in the SFO league. He soon got a job managing the Stealth entry there, and gained valuable managing experience. However, the driving aspect in Ryan's career had been on hold for too long and he needed to race again. He left the managing position at Stealth and entered his own team MMC Racing, having co-founded it with Matt Maple. The two drove together before in GPC and had become good friends at the time. The team did fairly well in SFO, and by the time of September 2003 GPVWC had come back, except with the name F1VWC. McConkey heard there were slots open for teams and decided he'd enter MMC Racing into the league. This venture proved to be the correct move, as the SFO league collapsed at the end of the 2003 season.

F1VWC Years

Ryan had entered MMC Racing into F1VWC in September 2003 in time for the United States Grand Prix. Teamed with driver Paul Sleight, the pair didn't score any points, but impressed for such a young team with an underpowered Mugen-Honda engine. The 2003 season finale at Suzuka proved to be one of McConkey's shining moments when he qualified 5th on the grid in a car with at least 50 horsepower less than the rest of the field. He ended up finishing 7th overall in the race thereby scoring MMC's first ever points in just it's 2nd race in the league.