Pepe Oriola
Oriola at the2018 FIA WTCR Race of Slovakia.
Nationality	Spanish
Full name	Josep Oriola Vila
Born	(1994-07-09)9 July 1994 (age 30) Barcelona, Spain
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 in2015
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 theWorld 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 inBrazil in 2011 andMorocco 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 theWorld Touring Car Cup and finish 6th in a close title fight till the last rounds inMacau. In 2019 he switches from factory driver ofCUPRA toHyundai Motorsport. Oriola also won the 1st ever 24h race of only TCR Cars inSpa Francorchamps in 2019 with the team Red Camel-Jordans. He is part of the team Changan Ford in China Touring Car ChampionshipCTCC where in 2019 won 3 races.

Born inBarcelona, Oriola began his career inkarting in 2004 at the age of nine.^[1] He switched totouring cars at the end of 2009 at the age of 15 when he competed in the final round of theSEAT León Supercopa Spain, finishing on the podium. In 2010 he competed in full seasons of both the Spanish Supercopa andSEAT León Eurocup with theMonlau Competition team. He took his first victory at the second Eurocup race atBrands Hatch, which was shortened due to a heavy accident involving Francisco Carvalho.^[2] He then took a double victory at the season finale atValencia to move up to fourth in the final Eurocup standings. He also finished fourth in the Supercopa standings.

In 2011 Oriola raced aSEAT León in the World Touring Car Championship forSunred Engineering.^[3] He became the youngest ever driver in the series when he made his debut, aged 16 years, 8 months and 11 days at the2011 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil. He scored his first points in the second race of the season atCuritiba.

Oriola will continue in the WTCC in 2012, staying with Sunred but now racing under the Tuenti Racing Team banner.^[4] He left the first round inItaly in a three way tie for first place in theYokohama Trophy withStefano D'Aste andAlex MacDowall, having started from the class pole position in race one.^[5] He took his first overall podium finish in race two of theRace of Portugal. Oriola spent much of the season at the top of the Yokohama Trophy but dropped behindNorbert Michelisz in the standings after theRace of Brazil. He took his second podium finish of the season in race two of theRace of Japan with second place behindStefano D'Aste having started from that position on the reversed grid.

Oriola stayed in the WTCC for the2013 season driving for the Tuenti Racing Team.^[6] He would not be eligible for the Yokohama Trophy as the team was now run bySEAT Sport.^[7] At the season openingRace of Italy he qualified fourth as the best placed SEAT driver on the grid.^[8] He retired from race one with a puncture having been running fifth and finished sixth in race two.On 7 April 2013 at theRace of Morocco he became the youngest person to win a WTCC race when he claimed victory in race two.^[9] After theRace of Russia, Oriola confirmed he would be switching to aChevrolet Cruze car for the following round in Portugal.^[10]

† As Oriola was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

‡ Team standings

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 75% of the race distance.

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2019	Red Camel-Jordans.nl	Ivo Breukers Rik Breukers Tom Coronel	CUPRA León TCR	P	454	1st	1st

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

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