Javier Villa

Javier Villa
Nationality	Spanish
Born	5 October 1987 Colunga, Asturias (Spain)
NASCAR career
Debut season	2003 FJUNIOR
Current team	Scorpus racing
Car no.	9
Starts	220
Wins	42
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	1º in 2011
Previous series
2008–09, 2009–10 2008 2007 2006–09 2004–06 2010-11 2011	GP2 Asia Series International GT Open Formula One testing GP2 Series Spanish Formula Three Spanish Mini Challenge World Touring Car Championship
Championship titles
2010	NASCAR Europe Junior Trophy, 2 Spanish Championship

Javier Villa García (born 5 October 1987 in Colunga, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish racing driver living in Arriondas, Asturias, Spain. He drove in the GP2 Series from 2006 towards 2009. In 2010 he switched to touring cars, driving at the Spanish Mini Challenge and later the World Touring Car Championship. Villa finished third at the 2012 Racecar Euro Series stock car championship.

Career

Villa driving for Racing Engineering at the Magny-Cours round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

Before driving in the GP2 Series in 2006, he raced in the Spanish F3 Championship, where he finished 4th overall in the 2005 season, with the Racing Engineering team.

Graduating to GP2 with Racing Engineering the next year, his first season was pointless, but 2007 was a significant improvement. He took his first GP2 victory in 2007 at the sprint race at Magny-Cours. He started from second on the grid by dint of finishing seventh in the previous day's feature race.^[1] He then won the sprint races at the Nürburgring^[2] and Hungaroring^[3] from pole position. He stayed with Racing Engineering for a third season of GP2 in 2008. This season was disappointing as he slipped back to seventeenth in the championship, whereas team-mate Giorgio Pantano won it.

Villa drove for Super Nova Racing in the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, and also drove for the team in the 2009 GP2 Series season. He was linked with a race seat at Formula One team Campos Grand Prix for 2010 but when they turned into Hispania Racing Team he wasn't linked anymore.^[4]

The 2010 season he forged links with BMW driving in the Spanish Mini Challenge Championship. He won that title and was rewarded with a drive in the final round of the 2010 Australian Mini Challenge in Sydney finishing seventh.^{[5] [6]}

In 2011 Villa will move to the World Touring Car Championship with Proteam Motorsport BMW team, where he scored his first podium in Hungary. He had a disappointing end to the season falling out of the top ten finishing 12th for the season. He was voted best rookie in the World Touring Car Championship for the 2011 season.^[7]

He was linked with the Formula One team Hispania Racing with a view to replace Vitantonio Liuzzi.^[8] He again competed in the Spanish Mini Challenge in 2011 and despite missing three races, still finished in fifth position for the championship.

Villa moved for 2012 to the Racecar Euro Series, a NASCAR-sanctioned stock car championship, where he finished third with a win and six podiums

Racing record

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Points	Position
2004	Spanish F3 Championship	Elide Racing	14	0	1	1	29	9th
2005	Spanish F3 Championship	Racing Engineering	14	2	2	6	96	4th
2006	GP2 Series	Racing Engineering	21	0	0	0	0	26th
	Spanish F3 Championship		2	0	0	1	10	15th
2007	GP2 Series	Racing Engineering	21	0	3	5	42	6th
2008	GP2 Series	Racing Engineering	19	0	0	0	8	17th
	International GT Open	Roger Racing	1	0	0	0	0	NC
2008–09	GP2 Asia Series	Super Nova Racing	11	0	0	1	12	10th
2009	GP2 Series	Super Nova Racing	20	0	0	3	27	10th
2009–10	GP2 Asia Series	Arden International	6	0	0	2	19	4th
2010	Spanish Mini Challenge	BMW Spain	6	?	4	6	214	1st
2011	World Touring Car Championship	Proteam Racing	24	1	0	1	59	12th
	Spanish Mini Challenge	BMW Spain	12	7	4	3	217	5th

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	DC	Points
2006	Racing Engineering	VAL FEA 18	VAL SPR 9	IMO FEA 13	IMO SPR 18	NÜR FEA 9	NÜR SPR 20	CAT FEA 14	CAT SPR 15	MON FEA Ret	SIL FEA 14	SIL SPR 13	MAG FEA 17	MAG SPR 16	HOC FEA 11	HOC SPR 13	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 15	IST FEA 15	IST SPR 16	MNZ FEA 9	MNZ SPR Ret	26th	0
2007	Racing Engineering	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 10	CAT FEA 8	CAT SPR 2	MON FEA Ret	MAG FEA 7	MAG SPR 1	SIL FEA 13	SIL SPR Ret	NÜR FEA 8	NÜR SPR 1	HUN FEA 8	HUN SPR 1	IST FEA 12	IST SPR Ret	MNZ FEA 6	MNZ SPR Ret	SPA FEA 4	SPA SPR 15	VAL FEA 8	VAL SPR 2	6th	42
2008	Racing Engineering	CAT FEA 14	CAT SPR 6	IST FEA 7	IST SPR 15	MON FEA 14	MON SPR 13	MAG FEA 14	MAG SPR 10	SIL FEA 13	SIL SPR Ret	HOC FEA 10	HOC SPR 5	HUN FEA 13	HUN SPR 6	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 5	SPA FEA 17	SPA SPR 8	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR EX		17th	8
2009	Super Nova Racing	CAT FEA 10	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 10	MON SPR 8	IST FEA 7	IST SPR 2	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 15	NÜR FEA 5	NÜR SPR 6	HUN FEA 3	HUN SPR 5	VAL FEA 18	VAL SPR 9	SPA FEA 13	SPA SPR 10	MNZ FEA 7	MNZ SPR 10	ALG FEA 13	ALG SPR 2		10th	27

Complete GP2 Asia 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	DC	Points
2008–09	Super Nova Racing	SHI FEA 4	SHI SPR 3	DUB FEA 9	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA 9	BHR1 SPR 5	LSL FEA 13	LSL SPR 10	SEP FEA 19	SEP SPR 18	BHR2 FEA 15	BHR2 SPR 12	10th	12
2009–10	Arden International	YMC1 FEA	YMC1 SPR	YMC2 FEA 4	YMC2 SPR 11	BHR1 FEA 3	BHR1 SPR 3	BHR2 FEA 7	BHR2 SPR 6					4th	19

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(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	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2011	Proteam Racing	BMW 320 TC	BRA 1 14	BRA 2 8	BEL 1 9	BEL 2 10	ITA 1 8	ITA 2 8	HUN 1 3	HUN 2 7	CZE 1 9	CZE 2 7	POR 1 Ret	POR 2 17	GBR 1 17	GBR 2 16	GER 1 12	GER 2 10	ESP 1 6	ESP 2 19	JPN 1 12	JPN 2 8	CHN 1 10	CHN 2 Ret	MAC 1 11	MAC 2 10	12th	59

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	Points
2012	TFT Racing	64	Chevrolet	NOG 4	NOG 2	BRH 3	BRH 1	SPA 19	SPA 3	TOU 11	TOU 15	VAL 2	VAL 3	LEM 6	LEM 6	3rd	603
2013	Scorpus Racing	9	Chevrolet	NOG 22	NOG 2	DIJ 20	DIJ 20	BRH 8	BRH 5	TOU	TOU	MON	MON	LEM	LEM	20th	187

References

1. "GP2 France sprint race: Villa's maiden win". Maximummotorsport.co.uk. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
2. "GP2 Nürburgring sprint race: Villa dominates". Maximummotorsport.co.uk. 2007. Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
3. "GP2 Hungary sprint race: Who else but Villa?". Maximummotorsport.co.uk. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
4. "De la Rosa for Campos?". grandprix.com. 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
5. http://www.mini.com.au/mini/john_cooper_works_challenge/index.html 2011 Australian Mini Challenge Rd 7, retrieved Mini Challenge Official site 17/4/2011
6. http://www.speedcafe.com.au/2010/11/24/spanish-invasion-at-homebush-mini-challenge/ retrieved from Speedcafe 17/4/2011
7. http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7236 Readers vote Javier Villa as the best rookie in 2011
8. http://italiaracing.net/translatenews.asp?id=32352&cat=1&lang=en

External links

• Javier Villa Official website