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Esteban Garcia | |
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Full name | Esteban Garcia de Rontero |
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2021 2020 2019–2021 2019 2018 2013, 2015–2016 | FIA World Endurance Championship Le Mans Cup European Le Mans Series Ultimate Cup Series V de V Endurance Series V de V Challenge Monoplace |
Esteban Garcia de Rontero (born 7 December 1970) is a Spanish-Swiss entrepreneur, sailor, racing stable owner and car racing driver.
Garcia was the founder of the Realstone real estate fund. He currently serves as a board member for the company, which was founded in Lausanne in 2004. [1] [2]
Garcia is passionate about sailing and in 2009, as skipper of the Realstone TP52 Matador, he won the TP class of the Royal Regatta of Palma de Mallorca. [3] Since 2013, he has managed Realtime Sailing, a professional sailing team that participates in ocean racing. He also organizes the Realstone Cup on Lake Geneva, launched in 2010. [4]
In addition to the sailing team, Garcia also runs a motorsport racing team. His driving career began in 2013 in the V de V Challenge Monoplace. With the switch to sports car and GT racing, his first successes came. He finished the 2018 Gulf 12 Hours in the Ligier JS P3 in third place in the prototype class [5] and the 2020 European Le Mans Series in fifth place in the LMP3 classification. In 2021, he made his debut in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Together with Loïc Duval and Norman Nato, he finished 17th in the final standings in the Oreca 07. [6] [7]
Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
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2013 | V de V Challenge Monoplace | Sports Promotion | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 38th |
2015 | V de V Challenge Monoplace | Sports Promotion | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 41st |
2016 | V de V Challenge Monoplace | Sports Promotion | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159 | 18th |
2018 | V de V Endurance Series - LMP3 | Graff | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 111 | 12th |
Gulf 12 Hours - Prototype | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N/A | 3rd | ||
2019 | European Le Mans Series - LMP3 | Realteam Racing | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 31.5 | 7th |
Ultimate Cup Series - Challenge Proto-LMP3 | RealTeam | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 16th | |
Ultimate Cup Series - Challenge Proto-LMP3-U | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3rd | ||
2020 | European Le Mans Series - LMP3 | Realteam Racing | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 50 | 5th |
Le Mans Cup - LMP3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | ||
2021 | FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2 | Realteam Racing | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 10th |
European Le Mans Series - LMP2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC† | ||
24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 12th |
† As he was a guest driver, Garcia was ineligible to score points.
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