Jaime Alguersuari
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FACT FILEAlso Known as: NAAge: 21Nationality: SpanishCurrent Team: Toro Rosso
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FACT FILEPast Team: NAIn F1 since: 2010World Championships: NABest Season Result: 19
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FACT FILERaces won: NAPodium finishes: NAFastest Laps: NAPole Qualifications: NA
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FACT FILERaces: 19Current Points: NACurrent Standing: NA
Jaime Alguersuari, born in Barcelona on the 23rd of March 1980 could be considered a relative newcomer to the field of F1 racing; however the young Spaniard is credited as the youngest F1 driver to take the seat!
Jaime would have been a DJ if not a race car driver so the early introduction to the glories of Motorsport really worked! He started karting aged eight!
Displaying considerable skill, Jaime won many local competitions and started to compete in several European karting series. Excellent results only followed over the next two years what with becoming the youngest-ever driver to win the Spanish championship in 2004!
The same year he also dominated the Champions International Cup securing the fourth place in the Italian Open Masters and taking the seventh in the final standing of the European championship!
In 2005 he continued to kart, taking a second consecutive Spanish championship and finishing runner-up in the FIA World Cup Asia Pacific. He also made a foray into single-seater racing. Competing in the Formula Junior 1.6 by Renault Italy series for Tomcat racing, Alguersuari won twice, finishing third in the standings.
Jaime focused on becoming a professional F1 driver and a year later had already bagged the Italian Formula Renault Winter Series. He finished runner-up to Mika Maki the next year. The young man's career was rapidly progressing; exactly like his driving!
It took him three years then to move up to the British Formula Three Championship where for the Carlin Motorsport, he drove alongside Brendon Hartley, Oliver Turvey and Sam Abay.
That season was a pitched battle between Alguersuari, Hartley, Turvey and Sergio Perez! But it was Alguersuari who nailed the last three races to become the champion; in doing so, he became the youngest champion in the group aged 18 years and 203 days.
2009 saw Alguersuari competing in the Renault World series once again alongside former team member Turvey.
So how did this guy get onto the F1 speed wagon? Jaime Alguersuari took over the role of reserve driver for the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 from fellow Red Bull Junior driver Hartley in the second half of the 2009 F1 season.
Less than two weeks later, race driver Sebastian Bourdais left the Toro Rosso team after the 2009 German Grand Prix and Alguersuari was the obvious choice. Four days later, Toro Rosso duly announced that Alguersuari would drive for the team at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. Here, he became the youngest ever Formula One driver at the age of 19 years and 125 days! He broke Mike Thackwell's record and became the only seventh teenager to start a Grand Prix!
Jaime would have been a DJ if not a race car driver so the early introduction to the glories of Motorsport really worked! He started karting aged eight!
Displaying considerable skill, Jaime won many local competitions and started to compete in several European karting series. Excellent results only followed over the next two years what with becoming the youngest-ever driver to win the Spanish championship in 2004!
The same year he also dominated the Champions International Cup securing the fourth place in the Italian Open Masters and taking the seventh in the final standing of the European championship!
In 2005 he continued to kart, taking a second consecutive Spanish championship and finishing runner-up in the FIA World Cup Asia Pacific. He also made a foray into single-seater racing. Competing in the Formula Junior 1.6 by Renault Italy series for Tomcat racing, Alguersuari won twice, finishing third in the standings.
Jaime focused on becoming a professional F1 driver and a year later had already bagged the Italian Formula Renault Winter Series. He finished runner-up to Mika Maki the next year. The young man's career was rapidly progressing; exactly like his driving!
It took him three years then to move up to the British Formula Three Championship where for the Carlin Motorsport, he drove alongside Brendon Hartley, Oliver Turvey and Sam Abay.
That season was a pitched battle between Alguersuari, Hartley, Turvey and Sergio Perez! But it was Alguersuari who nailed the last three races to become the champion; in doing so, he became the youngest champion in the group aged 18 years and 203 days.
2009 saw Alguersuari competing in the Renault World series once again alongside former team member Turvey.
So how did this guy get onto the F1 speed wagon? Jaime Alguersuari took over the role of reserve driver for the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 from fellow Red Bull Junior driver Hartley in the second half of the 2009 F1 season.
Less than two weeks later, race driver Sebastian Bourdais left the Toro Rosso team after the 2009 German Grand Prix and Alguersuari was the obvious choice. Four days later, Toro Rosso duly announced that Alguersuari would drive for the team at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. Here, he became the youngest ever Formula One driver at the age of 19 years and 125 days! He broke Mike Thackwell's record and became the only seventh teenager to start a Grand Prix!
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