Andy Soucek

 ( 1985 Births ) 

Andy Christian Soucek (; born 14 June 1985) is a Spaniards-Austrians professional racing driver.

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Career Soucek was born in Madrid, Spain. His father is an of Czech Republic descent and his mother is France. He holds dual Austrian and Spanish nationality, although he was born in Spain and has spent all his life there. He races under the Spanish flag because he "feels Spanish". Autosport magazine, August 24, 2006 (p.50)

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Karting Soucek's career started in professional karting events during 1997, although he would not make a formula debut until his Portuguese Formula Ford drive of 2001. In 2002, he continued with karting whilst driving in Spanish Formula Three. In 2003, he ended his karting commitments, moving to the EV team.

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Formula Three Soucek remained with EV during 2004 but would also drive two races for the GTA team. 2005 would be his key year, though, with Soucek's move to the Llusia team paying off after he won the title.

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GP2 Series After being in contention for the 2006 Championship in the World Series by Renault, Soucek signed to race in the GP2 Series for 2007 with the DPR team. He remained with DPR for the first round of the 2008 GP2 Asia Series, but was dropped after signing for rival team FMS International for the premier 2008 championship. Surprisingly, with only five days to the 2008 championship start, FMS International terminated Soucek's contract unilaterally, replacing him with fellow Spaniard Roldán Rodríguez [1]. This left Soucek without time to find a new team in time for the season start. A legal dispute resulted between Soucek and FMS International.

However, Soucek returned to race in the series after one round of the championship as a replacement for the injured Christian Bakkerud in the Super Nova team. After two races with Super Nova, Soucek then returned to the DPR team where he replaced Giacomo Ricci, himself substituting for the injured Michael Herck. and scoring his first championship point. Following his stint with DPR, Soucek returned once more to Super Nova as a permanent replacement for Bakkerud. He achieved one podium (at Hungaroring) and several more point finishes and ended the season tied with Roldán Rodríguez as best Spaniard.

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Superleague Formula and Formula Two Soucek also represented the side Corinthians (managed by EuroInternational group) in the first race of the 2008 Superleague Formula season, as Corinthians main driver Antônio Pizzonia was unable to participate, because of his schedule in Stock Car Brasil.

From the second race on, Soucek signed for Atlético Madrid to drive their car for the remainder of the 2008 Superleague Formula season.

In 2009, Soucek raced in the newly revived FIA Formula Two Championship, driving car number 22. Soucek clinched the title with three races to spare. As part of his prize for winning the championship, he tested for the Williams Formula One team on 1 December, setting the fastest time of the day.

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Formula One testing Soucek was confident of landing a Williams reserve drive in . However Williams signed Valtteri Bottas as their official reserve and test driver. Soucek instead signed as a test driver for Virgin Racing, joining Luiz Razia in that role. In August, Soucek left Virgin, stating that the team had broken their contract by not giving him any testing opportunities. In September 2010 he returned to Superleague Formula, racing for Galatasaray.

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Sportscar racing Subsequently, Soucek switched to racing GTs, making his debut in the final round of the 2012 Blancpain Endurance Series season at the Circuito de Navarra for Boutsen-Ginion Racing, and joining ART Grand Prix to race a McLaren MP4-12C for the 2013 Blancpain Endurance season.

Soucek co-founded Integrated Racing Performance, a racing driver consultancy company, with Derrick Vopelka and Jorge Gil in 2011.

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Racing record

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Complete Spanish Formula Three Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

2002 ! nowrap

Racing Engineering

ALB 1

ALB 2

JER 1

JER 2

EST 1

EST 2

VAL

JER 1

JER 2

JAR 1

JAR 2

CAT 1

CAT 2

! 8th ! 117

2003 ! nowrap

EV Racing

ALB 1

ALB 2

JAR 1

JAR 2

JER 1

JER 2

EST 1

EST 2

VAL 1

VAL 2

JER

CAT 1

CAT 2

! 4th ! 136

2004 !nowrap

EV Racing

ALB 1

ALB 2

JAR 1

JAR 2

JER 1

JER 2

EST 1

EST 2

VAL 1

VAL 2

JER 1

JER 2

!rowspan=2 4th !rowspan=2

74

2005 ! nowrap

Llusiá Racing

JAR 1

JAR 2

VAL 1

VAL 2

ALB

EST 1

EST 2

ALB 1

ALB 2

VAL 1

VAL 2

JER 1

JER 2

CAT 1

CAT 2 !style="background:#FFFFBF;"

1st !style="background:#FFFFBF;"

112

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Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

2006 ! nowrap

Interwetten.com

Circuit Zolder

Circuit Zolder

MON 1

Istanbul Park

Istanbul Park

MIS 1

MIS 2

SPA 1

SPA 2

NÜR 1

NÜR 2

Donington Park

Donington Park

Bugatti Circuit

Bugatti Circuit

CAT 1

CAT 2 ! 4th ! 101

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Complete GP2 Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

2007 ! DPR

BHR FEA

BHR SPR

CAT FEA

CAT SPR

MON FEA

MAG FEA

MAG SPR

SIL FEA

SIL SPR

NÜR FEA

NÜR SPR

Hungaroring

Hungaroring

Istanbul Park

Istanbul Park

MNZ FEA

MNZ SPR

SPA FEA

SPA SPR

VAL FEA

VAL SPR ! 16th ! 15

2008 ! nowrap

Super Nova Racing

CAT FEA

CAT SPR

Istanbul Park

Istanbul Park

MAG FEA

MAG SPR

SIL FEA

SIL SPR

Hockenheimring

Hockenheimring

Hungaroring

Hungaroring

VAL FEA

VAL SPR

SPA FEA

SPA SPR

MNZ FEA

MNZ SPR

!rowspan=214th !rowspan=2

14

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Complete Superleague Formula results (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

2008 !nowrap

SC Corinthians

DON 1

DON 2

! 9th ! 264

2010 !nowrap

Sporting CP

SIL 1

SIL 2

ASS 1

ASS 2

MAG 1

MAG 2

JAR 1

JAR 2

NÜR 1

NÜR 2

ZOL 1

ZOL 2

BRH 1

BRH 2

ADR 1

ADR 2

! 15th ! 329

2011 !nowrap

Turkey – Galatasaray S.K.

ASS 1

ASS 2

! 10th ! 88

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Super Final Results (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

2010 !nowrap	Sporting CP	SIL	ASS	MAG	JAR	NÜR	ZOL	BRH	ADR
2011 !nowrap	Turkey – Galatasaray S.K.	ASS

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Complete FIA Formula Two Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

2009

VAL 1

VAL 2

BRN 1

BRN 2

SPA 1

SPA 2

BRH 1

BRH 2

DON 1

DON 2

OSC 1

OSC 2

IMO 1

IMO 2

CAT 1

CAT 2

1st

115

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Complete Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup results

2014 ! nowrap

Beechdean AMR ! nowrap

Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 ! Pro

NOG QR

NOG CR

Brands Hatch

Brands Hatch

ZAN QR

ZAN CR

SVK QR

SVK CR

ALG QR

ALG CR

Circuit Zolder

Circuit Zolder

BAK QR

BAK CR ! 9th ! 36

2016 ! nowrap

M-Sport ! nowrap

Bentley Continental GT3 ! Pro

MIS QR

MIS CR

Brands Hatch

Brands Hatch

NÜR QR

NÜR CR

Hungaroring

Hungaroring

CAT QR

CAT CR

! 8th ! 47

2017 ! nowrap

M-Sport ! nowrap

Bentley Continental GT3 ! Pro

MIS QR

MIS CR

Brands Hatch

Brands Hatch

Circuit Zolder

Circuit Zolder

Hungaroring

Hungaroring

NÜR QR

NÜR CR

! 25th ! 4

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External links

• Personal web site In Spanish (clicking "Palmarés" key, there's a pdf CV also in English and German)

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