Pepe Oriola | |
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Nationality | Spanish |
Full name | Josep Oriola Vila |
Born | Barcelona, Spain | 9 July 1994
World Touring Car Cup career | |
Debut season | 2011 |
Current team | Campos Racing |
Car number | 74 |
Former teams | Tuenti Racing Team SUNRED Engineering Craft-Bamboo Racing |
Starts | 150 |
Wins | 20 |
Poles | 3 |
Fastest laps | 20 |
Best finish | 2nd in 2015 |
Previous series | |
2010 2009–2010 | WTCC SEAT León Eurocup Spain |
Championship titles | |
2021 | TCR South America Touring Car Championship |
Josep "Pepe" Oriola Vila (born 9 July 1994) is a Spanish racing driver. He became the youngest driver to race in the World Touring Car Championship when he competed in the 2011 season. Oriola is not only the youngest driver to start a WTCC race at the age of 16, he’s also the youngest to be on the podium and to have won a race. Feats he achieved in Brazil in 2011 and Morocco in 2013 respectively. His record of being the youngest driver ever to compete, score championship points and win a race in the prestigious WTCC remains to this day. In 2018 he competed in the World Touring Car Cup and finish 6th in a close title fight till the last rounds in Macau. In 2019 he switches from factory driver of CUPRA to Hyundai Motorsport. Oriola also won the 1st ever 24h race of only TCR Cars in Spa Francorchamps in 2019 with the team Red Camel-Jordans. He is part of the team Changan Ford in China Touring Car Championship CTCC where in 2019 won 3 races.