Related Research Articles
Marc Gené i Guerrero is a Spanish professional racing driver. He is best known as a tester for Williams and Ferrari in Formula One, Minardi Formula One driver and factory driver for Peugeot's Le Mans team, with which he won the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans. His brother Jordi is also a racing driver, competing in the WTCC for SEAT. He had 36 starts in Formula One, mostly through two seasons with the Minardi team, with which he scored a sixth-place finish at the attrition-filled 1999 European Grand Prix.
Gabriele Tarquini is an Italian former racing driver. He participated in 78 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 3 May 1987. He scored a single championship point, and holds the record for the most failed attempts to qualify. He has subsequently raced successfully in Touring Cars, winning the BTCC in 1994, the ETCC in 2003 the WTCC in 2009 and the WTCR in 2018.
Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro is a Portuguese professional racing driver currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup, driving a Honda Civic TCR for Engstler Motorsport. He competed in Formula One between 2005 and 2006 for the Jordan Grand Prix, Midland and Spyker MF1 teams – all different iterations of the same team as it was bought by new owners during a two-year stint as part of the Formula One paddock. He is the only Portuguese driver to have scored a Formula One podium finish, a 3rd place behind the two Ferrari drivers during the controversial 2005 United States Grand Prix.
Tom Romeo Coronel is a Dutch professional racing driver. Tom's twin brother Tim is also a racer, just like their father Tom Coronel Sr. His most important results are winning the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 race in 1997, the Formula Nippon championship in 1999, and the 2006 and 2009 World Touring Car Championship Independents' Trophy. As of September 2016, Tom Coronel has driven over 1,000 races.
Cupra Racing, formerly known as SEAT Sport, is the high-performance motorsport subsidiary of the Spanish automobile manufacturer SEAT, founded in 1985, succeeding the "SEAT Special Vehicles department" which had been formed in 1971 with the mission to enforce the brand's participation in rally championships, followed by 11 titles between 1979 and 1983. In 2018, SEAT created the Cupra brand as its independent high-performance branch and SEAT Sport was officially replaced by Cupra Racing.
Marin Čolak is a Croatian auto racing driver.
Mehdi Bennani is a Moroccan racing driver who currently competes in the TCR Europe with Sébastien Loeb Racing. He was TCR Europe Champion in 2020 with the Belgian team Comtoyou Racing.
Fabio Fabiani is an Italian auto racing driver.
Duarte Maria de Ortigão Ramos Félix da Costa is a Portuguese auto racing driver and driving coach. He has spent the majority of his motorsport career participating in touring car racing, and would also take part in sports car racing later on in his career.
Frédéric Nicolas "Fredy" Barth is an auto racing driver from Switzerland. He currently drives in the World Touring Car Championship.
Josep "Pepe" Oriola Vila is a Spanish racing driver. He became the youngest driver to race in the World Touring Car Championship when he competed in the 2011 season. Oriola is not only the youngest driver to start a WTCC race at the age of 16, he’s also the youngest to be on the podium and to have won a race. Feats he achieved in Brazil in 2011 and Morocco in 2013 respectively. His record of being the youngest driver ever to compete, score championship points and win a race in the prestigious WTCC remains to this day. In 2018 he competed in the World Touring Car Cup and finish 6th in a close title fight till the last rounds in Macau. In 2019 he switches from factory driver of CUPRA to Hyundai Motorsport. Oriola also won the 1st ever 24h race of only TCR Cars in Spa Francorchamps in 2019 with the team Red Camel-Jordans. He is part of the team Changan Ford in China Touring Car Championship CTCC where in 2019 won 3 races.
Aleksey Nikolayevich Dudukalo is a Russian auto racing driver. He raced in the World Touring Car Championship between 2011 and 2013.
Marc Basseng is a German racing driver.
Fernando Monje Vicario is a former Spanish racing driver who competed in the World Touring Car Championship.
Hugo Valente is a French former auto racing driver. He raced in the World Touring Car Championship for SUNRED Engineering, Campos Racing and the Lada factory team having made his debut in the series at the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of China. For 2017, he made the switch to the TCR International Series, where part way through the season he announced his retirement from motorsport. He was born in Choisy-le-Roi and is of Portuguese descent.
John Filippi is a French auto racing driver who competes in the TCR Europe Touring Car Series for Sébastien Loeb Racing.
Petr Fulín is a Czech racing driver. He competed in the European Touring Car Cup, where he has won the championship twice. He is a former World Touring Car Championship driver, who made his debut in 2014.
Norbert Nagy is a Hungarian racing driver who competed in the European Touring Car Cup. He made his ETCC debut in 2013 and in 2016 finished 3rd in the Championship. Nagy has also raced in several WTCC events over the last few years.
Pol Rosell Costa is a Spanish racing driver currently competing in the SEAT León Eurocup. He previously competed in the TCR International Series.
Stian Paulsen is a Norwegian racing driver. Competing in the TCR Europe Touring Car Series.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Marc Carol Ybarra career statistics at Driver Database" Career statistics at Driver Database Archived 2013-01-21 at archive.today
- 1 2 "WTCC: Carol set for debut | WTCC News | 2005 | Crash.Net". www.crash.net. Archived from the original on 2009-09-13.