Oliver Jarvis

Oliver Jarvis
Nationality	British
Born	9 January 1984 (1984-01-09) (age 27) Burwell (England)
2011 DTM
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
Teams	Kolles
Best finish	DNF
Class wins	0

Oliver Jarvis (born 9 January 1984 in Burwell, Cambridgeshire) is a racing driver.

Early life

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 also 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.

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.

During the Pokka 1000km in Suzuka, Jarvis won the race partnering with Juichi Wakisaka and Andre Lotterer despite not having to drive throughout the race.^[2]

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

Jarvis now races in the DTM for Audi.

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 DTM 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	HOC1 9	OSC 15	MUG 5	LAU 8	NOR 12	ZAN 17	NÜR 13	BRH 12	CAT 9	BUG Ret	HOC2 10	13th	5
2009	Team Phoenix	Audi A4 DTM 2008	HOC1 3	LAU Ret	NOR Ret	ZAN 2	OSC 15	NÜR Ret	BRH 8	CAT 9	DIJ 15	HOC2 6		9th	18
2010	Abt Sportsline	Audi A4 DTM 2009	HOC1 Ret	VAL Ret	LAU 11	NOR 4	NÜR 11	ZAN 6	BRH 6	OSC 13	HOC2 6	ADR 5	SHA 17	9th	18
2011	Abt Sportsline	Audi A4 DTM 2009	HOC1 9	ZAN 10	SPL 3	LAU 5	NOR 15	NÜR 10	BRH 9	OSC 9	VAL 6	HOC2 8		10th	14

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2010	LMP1	15	M	Audi R10 TDI Audi TDI 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	Kolles	Christian Bakkerud Christijan Albers	331	DNF	DNF

References

1. ^ "Jarvis chasing his F1 dream". Cambridge News. 2008-01-04. http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_sport_motorsport/displayarticle.asp?id=246083. Retrieved 2008-07-13. 
2. ^ Formula 3 - SUPER GT: Rd.6, SUZUKA Race Report

External links

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

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mike Conway	British Formula Renault UK series champion 2005	Succeeded by Sebastian Hohenthal
Preceded by Mike Conway	Macau Grand Prix Winner 2007	Succeeded by Keisuke Kunimoto
Awards
Preceded by Paul di Resta	McLaren Autosport BRDC Award 2005	Succeeded by Oliver Turvey

Persondata
Name	Jarvis, Oliver
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	9 January 1984
Place of birth	Burwell (England)
Date of death
Place of death