Racing Cars
Bowe began racing Formula Vee in an Elfin 500 in 1971, winning the Tasmanian state title on debut. The following year, he also won the Tasmanian Formula Ford title.
After graduating from domestic Formula Ford racing Bowe moved into the Australian Drivers Championship in the late 70s, racing Elfin Formula 5000s for the most prestigious team of the era, Garrie Cooper's Ansett Elfin Racing. The pinnacle of his Formula 5000 career was finishing runner up in the 1979 Australian Grand Prix driving one of Cooper's Chevrolet V8 powered Elfin MR8s. In the same year he also came second in the Australian Formula 2 Championships. After the collapse of Formula 5000 in the early 80s, Bowe continued with open wheelers racing as a front runner in the burgeoning Formula Pacific category, a renamed version of Formula Atlantic. After playing second fiddle to Alfredo Costanzo for several seasons, Bowe broke through for his first Australian Drivers' Championship in 1984, backing it up the following year with his second title in his Ford powered Ralt RT4.
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