Thursday 9 September 2010

Female Single-Seater Drivers Around the World: Spain


Carmen Boix

Carmen Jorda, Marta Garcia, Belen Garcia and Maria de Villota now have their own profiles.
This page will be refilled further when new drivers are found!

Carmen Boix (Gil) - raced in the MRF Formula 2000 Challenge in India in the 2012-2013 season. She was 24th in the championship, with a best finish of tenth. Previously, she was active in karting around Europe. In 2009, she appears to have tested a GP4 car, although she did not race it. In 2011, she was shortlisted for the Marzac Foundation’s Formula BMW sponsorship, but she did not win. At the end of 2011, she also tested a BMW for the Italian Superstars series, but again, did not race. In 2014, she was linked with a drive in a SEAT Leon. It was 2017 when she finally reappeared, driving a Ford Mustang in the Whelen NASCAR Euroseries. She was eleventh overall, with three top ten finishes: sixth at Franciacorta, ninth at Valencia and tenth at Hockenheim. She did another season in Euro NASCAR in 2018, in the Elite 2 class. Tours Speedway was her best circuit, where she earned a ninth and tenth place. She was 16th in the championship. She attempted to qualify for the all-female W Series in 2019, but was unsuccessful in the first selection.

Sara Garcia – raced in single-seaters in Spain and Portugal. She was tenth in the Spanish Master Junior Formula in 2007, driving for Emilio de Villota’s team. The following year, she raced in the Portuguese Formula Renault championship, running as “Formula Junior”, but only did two races, finishing tenth in both. Prior to her single-seater experiences, she was successful in karting championships in her home, the Canary Islands.

Nerea Marti - Spanish driver who graduated from karts to cars at the beginning of 2019. She entered the Spanish Formula 4 championship with the Praga Espana Formula de Campeones team. In her second-ever race at Navarra, she was classified second overall due to ten drivers being penalised for not reacting quickly enough to a red flag. She previously competed for the same team in karting from 2015 to 2018. She raced in the W Series in 2021 after the 2020 season was cancelled due to coronavirus and was named as one of the series' Academy drivers, who are exempt from elimination for a season. She impressed with a third place at the Hungaroring and was a regular top-ten finisher, coming fourth in the championship. She also tested an FIA F3 car. In 2022, she was invited back to race with W Series, joining the Quantfury team. She was seventh in the championship, despite podium finishes in Miami and Paul Ricard. After the collapse of W Series in early 2023, she signed for Campos Racing in the all-female F1 Academy, following some races in the Formula Winter Series. Despite a first-round disqualification, she was fourth in F1A, winning once at Paul Ricard. She combined F1A with a run in the Spanish GT Championship, winning the GT4 class in a BMW Spain-supported M4 shared with Jose Manuel de los Milagros, who had also won a Spanish Endurance title with her in 2022.




(Image from http://spanishdrivers.blogspot.co.uk/)

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