Javier Villa

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.

Javier Villa
Nationality Spanish
Born (1987-10-05) 5 October 1987
Colunga, Asturias (Spain)
NASCAR career
Debut season2003 FJUNIOR
Current teamScorpus racing
Car number9
Starts220
Wins42
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish1º 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
2010NASCAR Europe Junior Trophy, 2 Spanish 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 in the championship with a win and six podium finishes.

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
22†		 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 Pts
2012 TFT Racing 64 Dodge NOG
4		 NOG
2		 3rd 603
Chevy BRH
3		 BRH
1
Gonneau Racing Chevy SPA
19		 SPA
3		 VAL
2		 VAL
3		 BUG
6		 BUG
6
2013 Scorpus Racing 9 Chevy NOG
22		 NOG
2		 DIJ
20		 DIJ
20		 BRH
8		 BRH
5		 TOU TOU MNZ MNZ BUG BUG 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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-19. Retrieved 2011-04-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 2011 Australian Mini Challenge Rd 7, retrieved Mini Challenge Official site 17/4/2011
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-03. Retrieved 2011-04-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) retrieved from Speedcafe 17/4/2011
  7. Readers vote Javier Villa as the best rookie in 2011
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2011-07-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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