Borja García (racing driver)

Borja García
Borja García
Nationality	Spanish
Born	15 December 1982 (age 42); Valencia
NASCAR Whelen Euro Series career
Debut season	2013
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Starts	44
Wins	5
Poles	6
Fastest laps	7
Best finish	3rd in 2017
Finished last season	35th in 2018
Previous series
2013–2018; ; 2008, 2010; 2006, 2008; 2005, 2007; 2003–2004; 2001–2002	NASCAR Whelen Euro Series; Superleague Formula; Formula Renault 3.5 Series; GP2 Series; Spanish F3 Championship; World Series by Nissan
Championship titles
2004	Spanish F3 Champion

Borja García Menéndez (born 15 December 1982 in Valencia) is a Spanish racing driver. He last competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, having last driven for Alex Caffi Motorsport in a part-time effort in 2018. He was the 2004 Spanish Formula Three champion, and raced in the inaugural GP2 Series season.

Career

Garcia was born in Valencia. His career started in karting in 1993, where he stayed until 1999. He moved up to Spanish Formula Toyota in 2000, comfortably winning the title, before moving to Formula Nissan 2000 in 2001 with the Campos team, who now race in GP2 Series. He stayed in Nissan 2000 for 2002, driving for both the Esuela Lois and Venturini teams, whilst also racing some of the Spanish Formula Three season for the GTA team.

He raced the full Spanish F3 season in 2003 with the same team, before moving to the Racing Engineering outfit in 2004 with whom he won the title. Due to his success he stayed with the team as they moved to GP2 Series for 2005, where he partnered with Neel Jani.

In 2006 he raced in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series championship for the RC Motorsport team, finishing second overall behind Alx Danielsson. He returned to GP2 in 2007, driving for Durango. He moved back to FR3.5 for 2008.

He was the driver of the Sevilla FC entry in the Superleague Formula for the 2008 season. He was the driver for all the rounds and Sevilla finished 10th in points with one win at the 2008 Donington round.

In 2009 he moved to the Atlantic Championship, where he would finish in seventh in the championship having scored 3 podium finishes.

Garcia made his stock car racing debut in 2013, when he entered the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season finale round at Le Mans for Ford Autolix Competition and would score a podium finish in his very first race in the series. He made his full season debut the following year, finishing fifth in the championship and scoring a victory at Nürburgring after Garcia overtook pole sitter Ander Vilariño in the opening lap.^[1] After competing part-time in 2015, Garcia returned to full-time competition in 2016 with SPV Racing and later Double T by MRT Nocentini, finishing 11th overall in the standings with 4 podium finishes.^[2]

In 2017, Garcia began the season by sweeping both races in his home race in Valencia.^[3] He followed it up with two more victories at Venray and Hockenheim before ended up finishing third in the standings.^[4]^[5]

Racing record

Complete GP2 Series results

(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	23	DC	Points
2005	Racing Engineering	IMO FEA Ret	IMO SPR 10	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR 10	MON FEA 10^†	NÜR FEA Ret	NÜR SPR EX	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR 12	SIL FEA 17	SIL SPR 9	HOC FEA 7	HOC SPR 5	HUN FEA 11	HUN SPR Ret	IST FEA 3	IST SPR 5	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 10	SPA FEA 6	SPA SPR 2	BHR FEA 19	BHR SPR 17	14th	17.5
2007	Durango	BHR FEA 8	BHR SPR 4	CAT FEA 5	CAT SPR 14	MON FEA 16^†	MAG FEA 14	MAG SPR 20^†	SIL FEA 20^†	SIL SPR 17	NÜR FEA 19	NÜR SPR 12	HUN FEA 5	HUN SPR 5	IST FEA 5	IST SPR 4	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 19	SPA FEA 16	SPA SPR 17	VAL FEA 5	VAL SPR 4			10th	28

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(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	DC	Points
2006	RC Motorsport	ZOL 1 3	ZOL 2 2	MON 1 DNQ	IST 1 2	IST 2 Ret	MIS 1 5	MIS 2 17	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 1	NÜR 1 2	NÜR 2 6	DON 1 6	DON 2 3	LMS 1 11	LMS 2 3	CAT 1 23	CAT 2 9	2nd	107
2008	RC Motorsport	MNZ 1 6	MNZ 2 Ret	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 15	MON 1 11	SIL 1	SIL 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	LMS 1	LMS 2	EST 1	EST 2	CAT 1	CAT 2	24th	5

Superleague Formula

2008

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Operator	1		2		3		4		5		6		Position	Points
2008	Sevilla FC	GTA Motor Competición	DON		NÜR		ZOL		EST		VAL		JER		10th	262
2008	Sevilla FC	GTA Motor Competición	10	1	6	8	16	8	8	7	17	13	6	11	10th	262

2010

Year	Team	Operator	1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8			9			10			11			Position	Points
2010	Sporting CP	Reid Motorsport	SIL			ASS			MAG			JAR			NÜR			ZOL			BRH			ADR			POR			ORD			NAV			15th	329
2010	Sporting CP	Reid Motorsport	7	11	X	18	5	X	11	5	X	18	13	X	12	7	X																			15th	329

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1 results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	NWES	Pts
2013	Ford Autolix Competition	19	Ford	NOG	NOG	DIJ	DIJ	BRH	BRH	TOU	TOU	MNZ	MNZ	BUG 2	BUG 16	25th	142
2014	Ford Autolix Competition	1	Ford	VAL 21	VAL 2	BRH 5	BRH 4	TOU 8	TOU 6	NÜR 1**	NÜR 2	UMB 4	UMB 4	BUG 20	BUG 11	5th	588
2015	Active Racing Competition		Ford	VAL 4	VAL 9	VEN	VEN	BRH	BRH	TOU	TOU	UMB	UMB	ZOL	ZOL	30th	75
2016	SPV Racing		Ford	VAL 3*	VAL 3	VEN 3	VEN 2	BRH 5	BRH 4	TOU 8	TOU 16					11th	480
	Double T by MRT Nocenti	6	Ford									ADR 23	ADR 22
	Double T by MRT Nocenti	7	Ford											ZOL 22	ZOL 23
2017	Alex Caffi Motorsport	1	Ford	VAL 1**	VAL 1*											3rd	600
2017	Racers Motorsport	7	Ford			BRH 2	BRH 9	VEN 2	VEN 1**	HOC 1**	HOC 6	FRA 9	FRA 15	ZOL 6	ZOL 6	3rd	600
2018	Alex Caffi Motorsport	1	Ford	VAL 5	VAL 5	FRA	FRA	BRH	BRH	TOU	TOU	HOC	HOC	ZOL	ZOL	35th	64

References

^ "Garcia, Villarino battle to the end at Nurburgring NASCAR Euro race". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
^ "Enters Two Cars, Borja Garcia Leads The Title Charge". remususa.com. REMUS. 20 April 2016. Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
^ "Borja Garcia Sweeps Valencia NASCAR Foes". speedsport.com. Speed Sport. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
^ "Garcia Nabs First Euro Series Oval Victory". speedsport.com. Speed Sport. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
^ "Borja Garcia scores inaugural NASCAR win at Hockenheimring". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. 30 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

External links

Official website
Borja García driver statistics at Racing-Reference
Borja García career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Ricardo Maurício	Spanish Formula Three champion 2004	Succeeded by Andy Soucek

[1] "Garcia, Villarino battle to the end at Nurburgring NASCAR Euro race". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

[2] "Enters Two Cars, Borja Garcia Leads The Title Charge". remususa.com. REMUS. 20 April 2016. Archived from the original on 16 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

[3] "Borja Garcia Sweeps Valencia NASCAR Foes". speedsport.com. Speed Sport. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

[4] "Garcia Nabs First Euro Series Oval Victory". speedsport.com. Speed Sport. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

[5] "Borja Garcia scores inaugural NASCAR win at Hockenheimring". Motorsport.com. Motorsport.com. 30 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

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v t e Sevilla FC in Superleague Formula
Seasons competed	2008 2009 2010
Drivers	Borja García (2008) Esteban Guerrieri (2009) Sébastien Bourdais (2009) Marcos Martínez (2010)
Operating teams	GTA Motor Competición (2008) Ultimate Motorsport (2009) Reid Motorsport (2009) DeVillota.com Motorsport (2010)