Adrian Quaife-Hobbs

Infobox racing driver
name = Adrian Quaife-Hobbs


pixels = 190px
nationality = flagicon|UK British
date of birth = Birth date and age|1991|2|3
place of birth = Pembury (United Kingdom)
current series = Formula Renault
current team = BVM Minardi
first year = 2007
car number = N/A
starts = 24 [All statistics are from "all" Formula Renault championships Quaife-Hobbs has entered.]
wins = 0
poles = 0
podiums = 4
fastest laps = 1
best finish = 8th
year = NEC 2007
prev series = T Cars
Formula BMW UK
Formula Renault Eurocup
Formula Renault NEC
Italian Formula Renault
prev series years = 2005–2006
2007
2007–
2007
2008–
titles = T Cars
T Cars Autumn Trophy
title years = 2005
2005
awards = BRDC Rising Star AwardMSA British Race Elite
award years = 20062007

Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (born February 3, 1991 in Pembury) is a British race car driver currently racing in the Formula BMW UK series. He is notable for being the youngest driver to win the T Cars championship since its introduction in 1999.

Career

2002-2006: Early career

Quaife-Hobbs began his career in 2002, racing in the Honda cadets category, winning four races in his first season and coming second in the "Formula 6 Championship". 2003 saw the 12-year old Brit move up to the more powerful "Mini Max" category where Quaife-Hobbs took several podium finishes and a race victory. Quaife-Hobbs continued racing in the Mini Max series for 2004, winning the "Bayford Meadows Championship". At the age of 14, Quaife-Hobbs moved up to the T Cars category where he won both the main T Cars Championship title, becoming the youngest Champion in the series' history at 14 years 8 months old, and winning the Autumn Trophy title as well. In 2006 Quaife-Hobbs competed in the first few T-car races and got a double win in the opening rounds and also won his last race at Rockingham before deciding he was not going to learn any more and focused his efforts on preparation for the 2007 season in formula BMW. 2006 also saw Quaife-Hobbs win the British Racing Drivers' Club's "Rising Star Award", becoming the youngest driver to receive the award at the age of fifteen.cite web |url=http://www.tcars.net/graduates.aspx |title=T Cars > Graduates |accessdate=2007-04-17]

2007–: Formula BMW and Formula Renault

For 2007, Quaife-Hobbs was promoted to the Formula BMW class, running in its UK series, racing for the current Champions Fortec Motorsport. The young Brit established himself in the first meeting of the championship at Brands Hatch: Coming eleventh on his debut and running in third for a majority of a second race before tyre issues forced him to yield the final podium place to Valle Mäkelä, the winner of race one. The young Brit finished his debut season tenth in the Drivers' Championship with 405 points. Following the closure of the 2007 FBMW UK season, Quaife-Hobbs decided to enter the Formula Renault Eurocup with BVM Minardi in order to gain experience in the FRenault cars. The Brit did well on his debut, despite retiring in the first race, he finished eighth in the second from thirteenth position, enough to earn him three points. Quaife-Hobbs also competed two Formula Renault NEC races with Motopark and at Spa Adrian got his first Formula Renault podium in only his third Renault Event. 2007 also saw Quaife-Hobbs win a place on the prestigious MSA British Race Elite scheme run by David Brabham.

The Brit entered the Eurocup for a full season in 2008 as well as the Italian championship, both with the BVM Minardi team. He currently sits fourth in the Italian series after finishing on the podium three times in his first eight starts.

tatistics

Motor racing record

External links

* [http://www.quaifehobbs.com/ Official Website]

References