Mitch Evans

Mitch Evans in the 2010 Australian Formula 3 Championship

Mitchell "Mitch" Evans (born June 24, 1994 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand racing driver . He is two-time champion of the Toyota Racing Series (2010 and 2011). In 2012 he won the GP3 series . From 2013 to 2016 he drove in the GP2 series . He has been competing in the FIA Formula E Championship since 2016 .

Career

Like most motorsport enthusiasts , Evans began his career in karting and was active in the sport until 2007. In 2007 he switched to formula racing and took part in three races in the New Zealand Formula First winter series. He finished his first season in 18th place overall. He then competed in New Zealand's Formula First in the 2007/2008 season and finished ninth overall. In 2008 he took part in the New Zealand Formula Ford winter series for the first time and won the championship title with seven wins from twelve races.

For the 2008/2009 season, Evans switched to the New Zealand Formula Ford . He won 6 of 21 races and was runner-up behind Richie Stanaway . Following the season Evans went to Formula Ford championships in Australia and was runner-up in the Australian and Victorian Formula Ford. He also made his debut for Team BRM in the Australian Formula 3 championship . He took part in the season finale and won the second race. At the age of 15, Evans became the youngest driver to have won a race in the Australian Formula 3 championship. In 2010 Evans initially competed for Giles Motorsport in the Toyota Racing Series , the highest monoposto series in New Zealand. Evans won his debut race and three races in total. At the end of the season he decided the title with 915 to 912 points against Earl Bamber for himself. Evans then returned to the Australian Formula 3 Championship and started again for the BRM team. Skipping a race weekend, Evans won 8 races out of 17 starts. At the end of the season he was defeated by Ben Barker , who competed in every race, with 219 to 220 points and was runner-up. In 2011 Evans returned as defending champion to Giles Motorsport in the Toyota Racing Series. He won the New Zealand Grand Prix at the Manfeild Autocourse . At the age of 16, Evans became the youngest racing driver to date to win an international Grand Prix. He held this record until 2015 when it was beaten by Lance Stroll , who was a few months younger. Evans won 7 of 15 races and defended the title with 973 to 805 points from Nick Cassidy .

Following the Toyota Racing Series, Evans moved to Europe and completed his first season in the GP3 series . He started for MW Arden , the team of his manager Mark Webber . He won a race and finished the season in ninth place with 29 points. Internally he had to admit defeat to Lewis Williamson , who had scored 31 points. In addition, Evans took part in an event of the British Formula 3 Championship and the Macau Grand Prix . In early 2012 , Evans competed for Giles Motorsport for two Toyota Racing Series race weekends. He achieved all pole positions and was first and second twice. He then played his second season in the GP3 series for MW Arden . He led the championship almost consistently and won three races. With 151.5 to 149.5 points, he prevailed against Daniel Abt and won the GP3 series.

In 2013 Evans stayed with Arden and switched to the GP2 series . Already at the season opener he achieved a podium finish with a third place in the sprint race. In Monte Carlo he finished third in both races. He finished second in the sprint race on the Hungaroring . With a total of four podium finishes, she finished the season in 14th place overall. With that he set himself against Johnny Cecotto Jr. within the team with 56 to 41 points . by. He also attended a Toyota Racing Series event for Giles Motorsport earlier this year. He won two out of three races. 2014 Evans denied his second GP2 season for the iSport International team RT Russian Time . He won the main races at Silverstone and Hockenheim and was on the podium in four other races. In the overall standings, he improved to fourth place. With 174 to 6 points, he clearly prevailed against Artyom Markelow internally . In 2015 Evans again formed a driver duo with Markelow at Russian Time. This year Virtuosi Racing UK took over the implementation of the races . In Monza and as-Sachir he won the sprint races. In the championship he was fifth. In addition, Evans took part in two endurance races for Jota Sport . He made his debut in the Le Mans 24-hour race . He also completed an LMP1 test day for Porsche .

In 2016 Evans contested his fourth season in the GP2 series for Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing . With a win in Spielberg , he ended the season in twelfth place in the drivers' standings. Internally, he prevailed against Sean Gelael with 90 to 24 points . He also competed with Gelael and Antonio Giovinazzi for the SMP Racing team supported by AF Corse for a run in the European Le Mans Series (ELMS). In addition, Evans received a cockpit for the 2016/17 FIA Formula E Championship at Jaguar Racing , a new racing team in the championship. At the end of the season he finished 14th overall.

In 2017/18 he stayed with Jaguar in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship. At the season opener in Hong Kong , he achieved his first podium finish for himself and the team with third place. He achieved his first pole position in Zurich . At the end of the season, he finished seventh in the overall standings.

Also in 2018/19 Evans competed for Jaguar again. He had his first win at the Rome E-Prix , it was also the first win for the team. At the end of the season he finished fifth in the drivers' championship with two further podium results with 105 points. In addition, with a win and a second place he finished second in the overall ranking of the voestalpine European Races , in which only podium places in the races on the European continent were considered.

statistics

Career stations

2007: New Zealand Formula First, winter series (18th place) 2008: New Zealand Formula First (9th place) 2008: New Zealand Formula Ford , winter series (champions) 2009: New Zealand Formula Ford, (2nd place) 2009: Australian Formula Ford (2nd place) 2009: Victorian Formula Ford (2nd place) 2009: Australian Formula 3 (5th place) 2010: Toyota Racing Series (champions)

2010: Australian Formula 3 (2nd place) 2011: Toyota Racing Series (champions) 2011 : GP3 series (9th place) 2011 : British Formula 3 (20th place) 2012 : Toyota Racing Series (19th place) 2012 : GP3 series (champions) 2013 : Toyota Racing Series (18th place) 2013 : GP2 series (14th place)

2014 : GP2 series (4th place) 2015 : GP2 series (5th place) 2016 : GP2 series (12th place) 2016: ELMS , LMP2 (24th place) 2017 : Formula E (14th place) 2018 : Formula E (7th place)

Individual results in the GP2 series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	Points	rank
2013	Arden International	MAS		BRN		ESP		MON		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		SIN		UAE		56	14th
		10	3	DNF	15th	12	13	3	3	19th	14th	16	7th	7th	2	11	10	DNF	15th	11	15th	DNF	14th
2014	RT Russian Time	BRN		ESP		MON		AUT		GBR		GER		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		UAE		174	4th
		14th	7th	14th	20 *	2	6th	7th	4th	1	7th	1	11	12	9	5	4th	3	20 *	2	4th	3	4th
2015	Russian time	BRN		ESP		MON		AUT		GBR		HUN		BEL		ITA		RUS		BRN		UAE		135	5.
		6th	17th	2	DNS	DNF	DNS	10	5	DNF	20th	17th	22nd	5	3	3	1	11	8th	3	1	3	C.
2016	Jagonya Ayam Campos Racing	ESP		MON		AZE		AUT		GBR		HUN		GER		BEL		ITA		MAS		UAE		90	12.
		12	14th	5	4th	5	DNF	1	8th	4th	13	10	5	DNF	10	16	13	8th	DNF	8th	6th	15th	8th

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2016/17	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	HKG	MAR	BUE	MEX	MON	PAR	BER		NYC		MTR						22nd	14th
		DNF	17th	13	4th	10	9	DNF	17th	NC	DNF	7th	12
2017/18	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	HKG		MAR	SAN	MEX	PUN	ROME	PAR	BER	ZUR	NYC						68	7th
		12	3	11	7th	6th	4th	9	15th	6th	7th	DNF	6th
2018/19	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	TO YOU	MAR	SAN	MEX	HKG	SAY	ROME	PAR	MCO	BER	BRN	NYC					105	5.
		4th	9	6th	7th	7th	9	1	16	6th	12	2	2	17th

( Legend )

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2015	Iota Racing	Gibson 015S	Simon Dolan	Oliver Turvey	Rank 10

Web links

Commons : Mitch Evans  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Website of Mitch Evans (English)
• Career statistics of Mitch Evans (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Joey Foster and Mitch Evans create a weekend for the record books" (formula3.com.au on November 29, 2009)
2. ↑ "Motorsport: Evans world's youngest Grand Prix winner at 16" (nzherald.co.nz on February 14, 2011)
3. ↑ "GP3 - Evans: Young newcomer for the Arden team" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on February 23, 2011)
4. ↑ “2012 Toyota Racing Series Competitor List” (toyotaracing.co.nz on December 28, 2011; PDF; 73 kB)
5. ↑ "GP3 - Evans also at the start for Arden in 2012" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on January 16, 2012)
6. ↑ Markus Lüttgens: "Arden promotes GP3 champion Evans". Motorsport-Total.com, January 15, 2013, accessed January 15, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Philipp Schajer: "GP2 - Russian Time: Evans and Markelov in the Cockpit". iSport takes over. Motorsport-Magazin.com, February 19, 2014, accessed on February 19, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Peter Allen: Russian Time retains Evans and Markelov, brings in Virtuosi. paddockscout.com, February 20, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 . 
9. ^ Gary Watkins: Ex-F1 driver Montoya tops Bahrain WEC rookie test with Porsche. autosport.com, November 22, 2015, accessed December 19, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Peter Allen: Evans confirmed to stay in GP2 with Campos alongside Gelael. paddockscout.com, January 19, 2016, accessed January 19, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Petra Wiesmayer: Formula E: Jaguar confirms Adam Carroll and Mitch Evans. Motorsport.com, September 8, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016 .