Oliver Jarvis | |||||||||||
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Nationality | British | ||||||||||
Born | Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England | 9 January 1984||||||||||
Racing licence | FIA Platinum | ||||||||||
Previous series | |||||||||||
2009 2007 2007 2007 2006–07, 2007–08 2006 2006 2006 2005 2004–05 2003–04 2002–03 | Asian Le Mans Series Japanese F3 Super GT Porsche Carrera Cup GB A1 Grand Prix Formula Renault 3.5 Series British F3 Formula Ford 1600 Dutch Formula Renault Formula Renault UK FR2.0 UK Winter Series British Formula Ford | ||||||||||
Championship titles | |||||||||||
2022 2007 2005 | IMSA SportsCar Championship Macau Grand Prix Formula Renault UK | ||||||||||
Awards | |||||||||||
2005 | McLaren Autosport Award | ||||||||||
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Oliver Richard Benjamin Jarvis [1] (born 9 January 1984) is a British professional racing driver currently racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series with United Autosports. [2] [3]
Jarvis won the 2022 IMSA Championship (including the 2022 24 Hours of Daytona) in the DPi category with Meyer Shank Racing.
Born in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, he was educated at King's Ely. [4]
Jarvis was first introduced to motorsport from an early age when his father Carl was competing in Formula Ford 1600. Keen to try it for himself, and at just six years old, Jarvis enjoyed his first motocross competition, albeit then two wheels not four.
At the age of eight, Jarvis made the transition to race karts. During his 10 years in karts, he achieved notable success in British and European events, as well as in World Karting as one of Tony Kart's Works driver.
Jarvis moved from European Karting when he was 18 to the highly competitive British single seater car championships racing in the Formula Ford category for two successful seasons before moving up to Formula Renault.
2005 proved to be an outstanding year of achievements for Jarvis when he became the 2005 Formula Renault UK Champion having gained 5 wins, 7 podiums, 4 pole positions and 3 ELF /Atol Driver of the Day Awards. He was also awarded BRDC Rising Star status.
Jarvis's perfect end to the year was receiving the prestigious McLaren Autosport Young Driver of The Year Award that December, presented to him by Formula One legend Sir Stirling Moss.
2006 saw Jarvis move up to the British F3 International Series, racing for the famous Carlin Motorsport team, run by Trevor Carlin. Jarvis was an instant success, and won two races, beating Bruno Senna (nephew of the late Ayrton) to 2nd in the standings. He went on to dominate the end of season Macau F3 Grand Prix in 2007, leading every lap and looking unchallenged throughout to take the biggest victory of his career. [5]
Jarvis was added to the roster for A1 Team Great Britain in A1 Grand Prix, and may get a chance to race often in 2006-07 season, should he impress more than Darren Manning and Robbie Kerr, or should the two be unavailable for any reason.
Jarvis did get his first chance at the Beijing International Streetcircuit in China, the third race weekend of the season. Through a problematic weekend, where problems with the track arose, Jarvis started the Sprint race in 8th, and finished in 7th in a race that saw little racing, following 7th-starting South Africa spinning, bringing out the Safety Car for a majority of the race. In the Feature race, Jarvis therefore started 7th. After controversially making his mandatory pitstop on the lap the Safety Car was deployed (A1GP rules state that cars cannot pit during Safety Car periods), Jarvis ended up running 8th for a majority of the race, an 8th that was actually a net 4th, given the cars in the first four places were yet to pit. After they did, Jarvis moved up to fourth, and looked to be heading for that position, until the leading duo, The Netherlands driver Jeroen Bleekemolen and Germany's Nico Hülkenberg both retired on the same lap, leaving Jarvis to finish second, behind Italy's Enrico Toccacelo.
Jarvis' next outing was at the Mexico round. This time Jarvis went one better, winning the Feature race for Great Britain's first ever A1 Grand Prix victory.
In 2008, Jarvis progressed to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, racing for Team Phoenix in an Audi A4 DTM 2007. Having finished in the points twice, the Briton ended up 13th in the standings.
The following year, Team Phoenix retained Jarvis in the DTM, where he would partner Alexandre Prémat. [6] A much improved campaign followed, where two podiums, including second at Zandvoort, where he scored his first pole position in the category, elevated Jarvis to ninth overall.
Switching to Abt Sportsline for the 2010 season, five results inside the top six meant that Jarvis would finish ninth in the standings once again. [7]
In 2011, the Brit remained in the DTM at Abt Sportsline. [8] Despite taking a podium finish at Spielberg, Jarvis ended the season sitting tenth in the championship.
He would not be retained by Audi for the 2012 DTM season. [9]
During the Pokka 1000km in Suzuka, Jarvis won the race partnering with Juichi Wakisaka and André Lotterer despite not having to drive throughout the race. [10]
Javis would transition to the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2012, driving alongside Frank Stippler for Team WRT. [11] With five podiums across the season, the pairing finished eighth overall. He also competed in that year's 24 Hours of Le Mans for Audi. [12]
In 2013, Jarvis raced for Alex Job Racing with an Audi R8 Grand-Am in the 24 Hours of Daytona. He won the class. He also won the 2013 12 Hours of Sebring and came third at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Audi R18 e-tron quattro. [13]
When Audi pulled out of WEC, he signed a contract to race in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup for Bentley during 2017. He also raced in the WEC under Jackie Chan DC Racing in LMP2. This led to him getting a class victory at Le Mans 24 Hours and second overall. They went on to score second in the championship standings.
For 2018, he will be racing in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Mazda Team Joest.
Jarvis teamed up with Tom Blomqvist at Meyer Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for the 2022 season. The pair would end up winning the title, having taken a pair of victories, including one at the 24 Hours of Daytona. [14]
† As Jarvis was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points. ‡ Teams' standings
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | DC | Pts |
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2006 | Carlin Motorsport | Mugen | OUL 1 3 | OUL 2 4 | DON 1 4 | DON 2 Ret | PAU 1 3 | PAU 2 7 | MON 1 4 | MON 2 1 | SNE 1 4 | SNE 2 2 | SPA 1 5 | SPA 1 12 | SIL 1 4 | SIL 2 3 | BRH 1 4 | BRH 2 1 | MUG 1 Ret | MUG 2 2 | SIL 1 2 | SIL 2 3 | THR 1 2 | THR 2 3 | 2nd | 250 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | DC | Pts |
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2007 | DHG Team TOM'S | Toyota | FUJ 1 1 | FUJ 2 3 | SUZ 1 2 | SUZ 2 3 | MOT 1 1 | MOT 2 5 | OKA 1 2 | OKA 2 5 | SUZ 1 4 | SUZ 2 2 | AUT 1 2 | AUT 2 3 | AUT 3 2 | FUJ 1 3 | FUJ 2 3 | SEN 1 3 | SEN 2 1 | SEN 3 2 | MOT 1 3 | MOT 2 Ret | 3rd | 238 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | DC | Points |
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2006–07 | Great Britain | NED SPR | NED FEA | CZE SPR | CZE FEA | BEI SPR 7 | BEI FEA 2 | MYS SPR | MYS FEA | IDN SPR | IDN FEA | NZL SPR | NZL FEA | AUS SPR | AUS FEA | RSA SPR | RSA FEA | MEX SPR 2 | MEX FEA 1 | SHA SPR | SHA FEA | GBR SPR | GBR SPR | 3rd | 92 |
2007–08 | NED SPR 7 | NED FEA 1 | CZE SPR | CZE FEA | MYS SPR 6 | MYS FEA 12 | ZHU SPR 6 | ZHU FEA 5 | NZL SPR | NZL FEA | AUS SPR | AUS FEA | RSA SPR 2 | RSA FEA 11 | MEX SPR 2 | MEX FEA 2 | SHA SPR | SHA FEA | GBR SPR | GBR SPR | 3rd | 126 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | DC | Points |
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2007 | Toyota Team TOM'S | Lexus SC430 | GT500 | SUZ | OKA | FUJ | SEP | SUG | SUZ 1 | MOT | AUT | FUJ | 16th | 20 |
2014 | Lexus Team SARD | Lexus RC F | GT500 | OKA 4 | FUJ 6 | AUT 11 | SUG 6 | FUJ 12 | SUZ 11 | BUR 7 | MOT 9 | 13th | 24 | |
Source: [15] |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Pos | Points |
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2008 | Team Phoenix | Audi A4 DTM 2007 | HOC 9 | OSC 15 | MUG 5 | LAU 8 | NOR 12 | ZAN 17† | NÜR 13 | BRH 12 | CAT 9 | BUG Ret | HOC 10 | 13th | 5 |
2009 | Team Phoenix | Audi A4 DTM 2008 | HOC 3 | LAU Ret | NOR Ret | ZAN 2 | OSC 15† | NÜR Ret | BRH 8 | CAT 9 | DIJ 15 | HOC 6 | 9th | 18 | |
2010 | Abt Sportsline | Audi A4 DTM 2009 | HOC Ret | VAL 14† | LAU 11 | NOR 4 | NÜR 11 | ZAN 6 | BRH 6 | OSC 13 | HOC 6 | ADR 5 | SHA 17 | 9th | 18 |
2011 | Abt Sportsline | Audi A4 DTM 2009 | HOC 9 | ZAN 10 | SPL 3 | LAU 5 | NOR 15 | NÜR 10 | BRH 9 | OSC 9 | VAL 6 | HOC 8 | 10th | 14 | |
Sources: [15] [16] |
Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos | Points |
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2012 | Belgian Audi Club Team WRT | Audi R8 LMS ultra | NOG QR 2 | NOG CR 2 | ZOL QR 11 | ZOL CR 10 | NAV QR 8 | NAV QR 8 | SVK QR 6 | SVK CR 5 | ALG QR 3 | ALG CR Ret | SVK QR Ret | SVK CR 4 | MOS QR 3 | MOS CR 3 | NUR QR 7 | NUR CR Ret | DON QR Ret | DON CR 7 | 8th | 81 |
† Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Rank | Points |
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2023 | United Autosports USA | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 V8 | CAT 6 | LEC 7 | ARA 1 | SPA 5 | POR 1 | ALG 1 | 2nd | 100 |
2024 | United Autosports | LMP2 Pro-Am | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | CAT 7 | LEC 3 | IMO 7 | SPA | MUG 4 | ALG Ret | 7th | 39 |
Source: [15] |
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