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Racing
Engineering is very happy to announce that Borja Garcia, the talented
21 year old driver from Valencia will compete together with the
team from Andalusia in the 2004 Spanish Formula 3 Championship.
Borja, who already proved his qualities during several tight races
against Racing Engineering’s 2003 Champion Ricardo Mauricio,
together with his new team has a very clear goal for the upcoming
season: Win the drivers championship as well as make Racing Engineering
team champions for the fourth consecutive year.
Borja will have his first official outing with Racing Engineering
in Albacete, where the traditional Winter Series race of the Spanish
F3 Championship is held this weekend.
It
will not be the first time that the young Spaniard will be behind
the steering wheel of one of Racing Engineering’s single seaters.
In fall 2002 Racing Engineering gave Borja the chance to drive it’s
Dallara Nissan V6 on a free test day in Valencia and he impressed
Racing Engineering’s staff not only by the lap times marked,
but also by his professional approach of working. Therefore it was
only a question of time when one of Spain’s biggest talents
in racing would join forces with Racing Engineering to fight for
a championship title.
Borja
Garcia Menéndez was born in Valencia on the 15th of December
1982. His hobbies are mechanics of race cars, racing karts, Playstation
and sports. Like this he not only meets the typical interests of
a race driver, but being from Valencia he also mentioned, “I
really like paella. Almost all Sundays when I am at home, we eat
paella!”
After
missing the vice championship title in 2003 by only one point, Borja’s
goals are high for the 2004 season and Racing Engineering will do
its best in helping him achieve them. Borja Garcia, after becoming
Racing Engineering’s driver announced, “I am very happy
with my new team Racing Engineering as it’s one of the best
teams there is, if not the best. They have very good people, not
only from a professional point of view, but also from a human point
of view. Like this I am expecting a lot from this season and this
obviously involves winning the Spanish F3 Championship with Racing
Engineering.”
Already
this weekend Borja Garcia will drive Racing Engineering’s Dallara
Toyota at the Winter Series race in Albacete and he stated, “This
weekend it will be hard to finish the race in first position given
the fact that there will also be two cars normally competing in
the F 3 Euroseries and therefore having more horsepower. Nevertheless
we will try to have the best car we can and I guess that the weather
conditions will not be the best as we will have low temperatures,
wind and maybe even rain. But what is clear for me is that I want
to cross the finish line before the other Spanish F3 cars and I
will try to do this as close to the Euro F3 cars as possible. And
if I can cross it ahead of them, then I will also try to do it.”
2003
Spanish Formula 3 Championship
Campeón Ibérico
Third in overall standings of Spanish F3 Championship
2002 Spanish Formula 3 Championship
Participated in 7 (out of 13) races:
6 wins and 1 second place
Third in overall standings of Spanish F3 Championship
Open by Nissan Championship
2 wins
Third in overall standings of Open by Nissan Championship
2001 Open by Nissan Championship
Third in Magny Cours (FRA)
Ninth in overall standings of Open by Nissan Championship
2000 Champion of the Spanish Formula Toyota 1300.
4 wins, 2 second places and 1 third place.
5 track records and 7 fastest laps in race.
1999 Champion of Karts Categoría InterA de la Comunidad
Valenciana and third in the Spanish championship, 10 pole positions,
5 track records and 10 wins.
Third in Volante Saxo Inter-A.
1997 – 1998 Participation in the Fórmula Libre
with three podiums
1996 – 1997 Regional Junior Champion in Argentina, 6
wins and 1 second place
Participation in several rounds of the Quad Junior Championship
1995 Champion of the Junior Nacional Argentina Championship,
7 wins
Third in the Junior del Campeonato MERCOSUR category
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