Alan James Gow born in Melbourne Australia June 23, 1955 and lives near London (England). Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ...

He is the Series Director and Administrator of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). The current BTCC logo The British Touring Car Championship is a series of races for saloon cars which is held each year in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...

A lifelong entrant and competitor in Australian motorsport and former Managing Director/Team Principal of Peter Brock's famous Australian racing team, Gow was one of the founders of TEGA - the Australian Touring Car Entrants Group who are the administrators of, and own the rights to, the V8 Supercar Championship. He emigrated to the UK in 1990 and formed TOCA Limited. TOCA then purchased the rights to the BTCC in 1991 and proceeded to turn the championship into the largest championship of its type in the world and one of the most widely watched motorsport series around the globe TOCA/BTCC Peter Geoffrey Brock (born February 26, 1945) is an Australian automobile racing driver. ... Greg Murphy in a Holden Commodore leads 3 other cars at Bathurst V8 Supercar is a touring car racing category, the most popular category of domestic motorsport in Australia and one of the worlds biggest and most professional racing championships. ...

Gow sold TOCA in 2000 to American company Octagon Motorsport (part of the US NASDAQ listed Interpublic group) and took a "sabbatical" from managing both TOCA and the BTCC. He then licensed the use of the TOCA name for interactive video gaming, thus the TOCA Touring Car series has firmly established itself as one of the biggest selling and most enduring games of its type in the world. The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. ... TOCA is a racing video game series developed and published by Codemasters, initially focusing specifically on Touring car racing but more recently expanding to cover a wide variety of motorsport. ...

In 2003 Octagon relinquished their ownership of TOCA and their control of the BTCC. A new company (BARC TOCA Ltd) was formed to take over and manage the championship. Gow was appointed Managing Director of the new company and returned to once again take charge and rebuild the championship, after it had floundered under the control of the previous management.

In January 2005 he was appointed Chairman of the MSA (Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association) MSA - the governing body of UK motorsport. Also appointed Chairman of International Motorsports Ltd (IMS) IMS. IMS are the organisers of the British Grand Prix and the Wales Rally GB (a round of the World Rally Championship). He also sits on the boards of the UK Government's Motorsport Development Unit and of the Motorsport Industry Association. The British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. ...