Born and raised in Southwest Michigan, where he still lives only 2 miles from his childhood home, Patrick Cowgill got into racing because his dad watched the NASCAR races every Sunday. He started out as a Richard Petty fan because he liked the blue and red paint scheme. Then after Petty retired, he started rooting for Dale Earnhardt.

Patrick partially lost interest in racing for a bit after the Daytona 500 in 2001. In 2011, his brother told him about this group of guys he raced with on NR2003 for PC. He decided to join Sim World Motorsports and was hooked. He started iRacing in 2014 but was still set on NR2003 because that is the platform that SWM was using. Then moved entirely to iRacing in 2018 when SWM decided to move from NR2003 to iRacing.

Patrick joined PRL in 2019, but could not race until the following year due to some back and neck pain issues. Currently he only races in PRL, where he will be competing in the Sunday IndyCar Series, Wednesday Truck Series, and Thursday IMSA series (GT3).

Off track, he spends most of his free time with his wife and 3 kids when he is not working as the CAD Technical Support Manager for a local Engineering, Survey and Architecture firm. His hobbies include woodworking, model building and Lego, but he doesn’t get a lot of time to do those things since his oldest child requires a little extra care. She was born with CTNNB1 Syndrome, which is why he tries to raise awareness of this syndrome on his iRacing paint schemes by sporting CTNNB1 Connect & Cure as his primary sponsor.