Juan Pablo Garcia

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Juan Pablo Garcia Samano (born October 4, 1987 in Mexico City ) is a retired Mexican automobile racing driver . He took part in Indy Lights from 2009 to 2014 .

Career

After Garcia started his motorsport career in karting , he switched to formula racing in 2006 and was twelfth in the American Formula Renault . In the winter that followed, Garcia made his A1GP debut . For the Mexican team he took part in two races in the 2006/2007 season. He then started in the national class of the British Formula 3 championship for Fluid Motorsport in 2007 . He finished the season in seventh place in the national class. In 2008 Garcia competed in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup , in which he remained without points, and in the Northern European Formula Renault, in which he was 16th.

In 2009 Garcia could not find a cockpit for a full season and he only competed in one Indy Lights race for HVM Racing . He finished the race in 18th place and finished 31st overall. In 2010 Garcia took part in two Indy Lights races for Michael Crawford Motorsports . With a sixth place as the best result, he finished the season in 20th place overall. In 2011 Garcia took part in the first four Indy Lights races for Jensen MotorSport . At the end of the season he was again in 20th place in the drivers' championship. In 2012 Garcia competed in Indy Lights for the new racing team Jeffrey Mark Motorsport , which cooperates with Bryan Herta Autosport . Garcia finished the season with two seventh places as the best results in ninth place.

In 2013 Garcia moved to Team Moore Racing within Indy Lights . Garcia achieved fourth place as the best result. He switched to Belardi Auto Racing two races before the end of the season . As the worst full-time pilot, he finished the season in eighth place overall. In 2014 he received an Indy Lights cockpit at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports , the championship team from the previous year. Garcia achieved two fourth places as the best results and, as the third-best driver of his team, was sixth in the overall standings. He was internally defeated by Jack Harvey and Luiz Razia , but finished the season one position ahead of Juan Piedrahita .

statistics

Career stations

  • 2011 : Indy Lights (20th place)
  • 2012 : Indy Lights (9th place)
  • 2013 : Indy Lights (8th place)
  • 2014 : Indy Lights (6th place)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “HVM Racing to Make Firestone Indy Lights Debut With Garcia” (1070thefan.com on August 17, 2009)
  2. ↑ “MEXICAN DRIVER JUAN PABLO GARCIA JOINS JENSEN MOTORSPORT” (jensenmotorsport.com on December 16, 2010)
  3. ↑ “Garcia returns to Firestone Indy Lights” ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (indycar.com on March 6, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.indycar.com
  4. ↑ Kate Guerra: "Garcia joins race-winning Team Moore for '13 season". indycar.com, January 10, 2013, accessed March 20, 2013 .
  5. ^ "Garcia Joins SPM Indy Lights Program". spmindycar.com, February 21, 2014, accessed August 29, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Garcia, Juan Pablo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garcia Samano, Juan Pablo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico