Oliver Jarvis

Oliver Jarvis
Nationality	British
Born	9 January 1984 Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England
DTM career
Debut season	2008
Current team	Audi Sport Team Abt
Car no.	5
Starts	42
Wins	0
Poles	1
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	9th in 2009
Previous series
2009 2007 2007 2007 2006–07, 2007–08 2006 2006 2006 2005 2004–05 2003–04 2002–03	Asian Le Mans Series Japanese F3 Super GT Porsche Carrera Cup GB A1 Grand Prix Formula Renault 3.5 Series British F3 Formula Ford 1600 Dutch Formula Renault Formula Renault UK FR2.0 UK Winter Series British Formula Ford
Championship titles
2007 2005	Macau Grand Prix Formula Renault UK
Awards
2005	McLaren Autosport Award

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
Teams	Kolles, Audi Sport North America
Best finish	3rd (twice), (2012) & (2013)
Class wins	0

Oliver Jarvis (born 9 January 1984) is a British professional racing driver from England currently racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Audi.

Early life

Born in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, he was educated at The King's School, Ely.^[1]

Racing career

Oliver was first introduced to motorsport from an early age when his father Carl was competing in Formula Ford 1600. Keen to try it for himself, and at just six years old, Oliver enjoyed his first motorcross competition, albeit then two wheels not four.

At the age of eight, Oliver made the transition to race karts. During his 10 years in karts, he achieved notable success in British and European events, as well as in World Karting as one of Tony Kart's Works driver.

Oliver moved from European Karting when he was 18 to the highly competitive British single seater car championships racing in the Formula Ford category for two successful seasons before moving up to Formula Renault.

2005 proved to be an outstanding year of achievements for Oliver when he became the 2005 Formula Renault UK Champion having gained 5 wins, 7 podiums, 4 pole positions and 3 ELF /Atol Driver of the Day Awards. He was also awarded BRDC Rising Star status.

Oliver's perfect end to the year was receiving the prestigious McLaren Autosport Young Driver of The Year Award that December, presented to him by Formula One legend Sir Stirling Moss.

2006 saw Oliver move up to the British F3 International Series, racing for the famous Carlin Motorsport team, run by Trevor Carlin. Jarvis was an instant success, and won two races, beating Bruno Senna (nephew of the late Ayrton) to 2nd in the standings. He went on to dominate the end of season Macau F3 Grand Prix in 2007, leading every lap and looking unchallenged throughout to take the biggest victory of his career.^[2]

Jarvis was added to the roster for A1 Team Great Britain in A1 Grand Prix, and may get a chance to race often in 2006-07 season, should he impress more than Darren Manning and Robbie Kerr, or should the two be unavailable for any reason.

Jarvis driving for Audi (Phoenix) in the 2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season on the Hockenheimring.

Oliver did get his first chance at the Beijing International Streetcircuit in China, the third race weekend of the season. Through a problematic weekend, where problems with the track arose, Jarvis started the Sprint race in 8th, and finished in 7th in a race that saw little racing, following 7th-starting South Africa spinning, bringing out the Safety Car for a majority of the race. In the Feature race, Oliver therefore started 7th. After controversially making his mandatory pitstop on the lap the Safety Car was deployed (A1GP rules state that cars cannot pit during Safety Car periods), Jarvis ended up running 8th for a majority of the race, an 8th that was actually a net 4th, given the cars in the first four places were yet to pit. After they did, Oliver moved up to fourth, and looked to be heading for that position, until the leading duo, The Netherlands driver Jeroen Bleekemolen and Germany's Nico Hülkenberg both retired on the same lap, leaving Jarvis to finish second, behind Italy's Enrico Toccacelo.

Jarvis' next outing was at the Mexico round. This time Jarvis went one better, winning the Feature race for Great Britain's first ever A1 Grand Prix victory.

Jarvis competing in the 2014 Super GT season.

During the Pokka 1000km in Suzuka, Jarvis won the race partnering with Juichi Wakisaka and André Lotterer despite not having to drive throughout the race.^[3]

Jarvis now raced from 2008 until 2011 in the DTM for Audi. Although he did not get a cockpit for the 2012 season,^[4] he will race in the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans for Audi.^[5]

In 2013, Oliver Jarvis raced for Alex Job Racing with an Audi R8 Grand-Am in the 24 Hours of Daytona. He won the class. He also won the 2013 12 Hours of Sebring and came third at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Audi R18 e-tron quattro.^[6]

Racing record

Complete A1 Grand Prix 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	22	DC	Points
2006–07	Great Britain	NED SPR	NED FEA	CZE SPR	CZE FEA	BEI SPR 7	BEI FEA 2	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	IDN SPR	IDN FEA	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	MEX SPR 2	MEX FEA 1	SHA SPR	SHA FEA	GBR SPR	GBR SPR	3rd	92
2007–08		NED SPR 7	NED FEA 1	CZE SPR	CZE FEA	MYS SPR 6	MYS FEA 12	ZHU SPR 6	ZHU FEA 5	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	RSA SPR 2	RSA FEA 11	MEX SPR 2	MEX FEA 2	SHA SPR	SHA FEA	GBR SPR	GBR SPR			3rd	126

Complete Super GT results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2007	Toyota Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ 1	MOT	AUT	FUJ	16th	20
2014	Lexus Team SARD	Lexus RC F	GT500	OKA 4	FUJ 6	AUT 11	SUG 6	FUJ 12	SUZ 11	BUR 7	MOT 9		13th	24

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters 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	Pos	Points
2008	Team Phoenix	Audi A4 DTM 2007	HOC 9	OSC 15	MUG 5	LAU 8	NOR 12	ZAN 17†	NÜR 13	BRH 12	CAT 9	BUG Ret	HOC 10	13th	5
2009	Team Phoenix	Audi A4 DTM 2008	HOC 3	LAU Ret	NOR Ret	ZAN 2	OSC 15†	NÜR Ret	BRH 8	CAT 9	DIJ 15	HOC 6		9th	18
2010	Abt Sportsline	Audi A4 DTM 2009	HOC Ret	VAL 14†	LAU 11	NOR 4	NÜR 11	ZAN 6	BRH 6	OSC 13	HOC 6	ADR 5	SHA 17	9th	18
2011	Abt Sportsline	Audi A4 DTM 2009	HOC 9	ZAN 10	SPL 3	LAU 5	NOR 15	NÜR 10	BRH 9	OSC 9	VAL 6	HOC 8		10th	14

• † — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90 per cent of the winner's race distance.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2010	Kolles	Christian Bakkerud Christijan Albers	Audi R10 TDI	LMP1	331	DNF	DNF
2012	Audi Sport North America	Marco Bonanomi Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R18 ultra	LMP1	375	3rd	3rd
2013	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marc Gené Lucas di Grassi	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	347	3rd	3rd
2014	Audi Sport Team Joest	Filipe Albuquerque Marco Bonanomi	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1-H	25	DNF	DNF
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	Lucas di Grassi Loïc Duval	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	392	4th	4th

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2012	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi	NOG QR 2	NOG CR 2	ZOL QR 11	ZOL CR 10	NAV QR 8	NAV QR 8	SVK QR 6	SVK CR 5	ALG QR 3	ALG CR Ret	SVK QR Ret	SVK CR 4	MOS QR 3	MOS CR 3	NUR QR 7	NUR CR Ret	DON QR Ret	DON CR 7	8th	81

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2013	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 3.7L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SIL	SPA 3	LMS 3	SÃO	CTA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		9th	45
2014	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SIL	SPA	LMS Ret	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO		27th	0
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo V6 (Hybrid Diesel)	SIL 5	SPA 7	LMS 4	NÜR 4	COA 3	FUJ 4	SHA 4	BHR 6		4th	99
2016	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	Audi TDI 4.0 L Turbo Diesel V6	SIL Ret	SPA	LMS	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	NC*	0*

^* Season still in progress.

References

1. "Jarvis chasing his F1 dream". Cambridge News. 4 January 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
2. Noble, Jonathan (18 November 2007). "Jarvis dominates Macau Grand Prix". Autosport.
3. Formula 3 - SUPER GT: Rd.6, SUZUKA Race Report
4. O'Leary, Jamie (24 February 2012). "Oliver Jarvis dropped from Audi's 2012 DTM line-up". Autosport. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
5. Audi UK (2 February 2012). "Allan McNish & Oliver Jarvis in Audi's Le Mans Lineup". fourtitude.com. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
6. PR (17 March 2013). "Britain's Jarvis scores debut Sebring Victory with Audi". Endurance-Info.com.

External links

• Official website
• Gallery of Oliver's first A1GP Team GBR Official Test, at Silverstone