Fernando_Monje
Fernando Monje
Spanish racing driver
Fernando Monje Vicario (born 7 March 1993) is a former Spanish racing driver who competed in the World Touring Car Championship.
| Fernando Monje | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Full name | Fernando Monje Vicario |
| Born | (1993-03-07) 7 March 1993 (age 31) Barcelona, Spain |
| World Touring Car Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2012 |
| Current team | Campos Racing |
| Car number | 19 |
| Former teams | Tuenti Racing Team |
| Starts | 34 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | 24th in 2012-13 |
| Previous series | |
| 2012 2010–11 2009 2009 | European Touring Car Cup European F3 Open Championship Formul'Academy Euro Series SEAT León Supercopa Spain |
| Championship titles | |
| 2012 | European Touring Car Cup |
Early career
Monje was born in Barcelona. He began his career in karting in 2005 at the age of twelve and competed in karting until 2009.[1]
He switched to single-seaters in 2009 at the age of 16 when he debuted in the Formul'Academy Euro Series, finishing tenth in the drivers' championship. He also contested three rounds of the Spanish SEAT León Supercopa with SUNRED Engineering. For 2010, he graduated to the European F3 Open Championship with De Villota Motorsport and finished the season in sixth position. He remained in the series in 2011, but switched to the Drivex team. He ultimately finished the season in fifteenth position.
World Touring Car Championship
SUNRED and Tuenti Racing (2012)
In 2012 Monje revived his SUNRED cooperation to compete in the World Touring Car Championship.[2] He also competed in the European Touring Car Cup, finishing the season as overall champion.[3] Having finished the European Touring Car Cup, he returned to the WTCC, for the remainder of 2012, to drive a SEAT León WTCC for the Tuenti Racing Team.[4] In the first race of his return at the Race of Brazil, Monje secured his first point by finishing tenth in race one. He was involved in a pileup at the start of race one at the Race of the United States, and along with Aleksei Dudukalo and Alberto Cerqui was forced to retire. Early on in the second race he crashed and his car was left near the apex of turn five for the rest of the race. He got his second point of the season in the season finale at Macau, finishing tenth once again. His two points meant he finished 24th in the championship having participated in half the races.
Campos Racing (2013–)
Monje joined new team Campos Racing for the 2013 season, racing alongside Hugo Valente.[5] He started on pole position for race two of the Race of Morocco but dropped out of the race on the second lap after a collision with James Thompson.[6] After the race he was given a five–place grid penalty for the Race of Slovakia having been deemed responsible for the collision.[7]
Career summary
Complete World Touring Car Championship 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 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | SUNRED Engineering | SUNRED SR León 1.6T | ITA 1 |
ITA 2 |
ESP 1 21 |
ESP 2 18 |
MAR 1 |
MAR 2 |
SVK 1 |
SVK 2 |
HUN 1 |
HUN 2 |
AUT 1 |
AUT 2 |
POR 1 |
POR 2 |
24th | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tuenti Racing Team | SEAT León WTCC | BRA 1 10 |
BRA 2 14 |
USA 1 Ret |
USA 2 Ret |
JPN 1 14 |
JPN 2 Ret |
CHN 1 Ret |
CHN 2 16 |
MAC 1 14 |
MAC 2 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Campos Racing | SEAT León WTCC | ITA 1 12 |
ITA 2 15 |
MAR 1 11 |
MAR 2 Ret |
SVK 1 15 |
SVK 2 16 |
HUN 1 16 |
HUN 2 18 |
AUT 1 Ret |
AUT 2 17 |
RUS 1 15 |
RUS 2 18 |
POR 1 15 |
POR 2 Ret |
ARG 1 16 |
ARG 2 14 |
USA 1 23 |
USA 2 15 |
JPN 1 10 |
JPN 2 13 |
CHN 1 29 |
CHN 2 19 |
MAC 1 |
MAC 2 |
24th | 1 |
Complete TCR International Series 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 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Campos Racing | Opel Astra OPC | MYS 1 |
MYS 2 |
CHN 1 |
CHN 2 |
ESP 1 |
ESP 2 |
POR 1 |
POR 2 |
ITA 1 5 |
ITA 2 3 |
AUT 1 DNS |
AUT 2 DNS |
RUS 1 |
RUS 2 |
RBR 1 |
RBR 2 |
SIN 1 10 |
SIN 2 19† |
THA 1 |
THA 2 |
MAC 1 |
MAC 2 |
16th | 26 |
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
- "Biography". fernandomonje.com. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
- "WTCC 2012 Monza Entry List" (PDF). World Touring Car Championship. Kigema Sport Organisation. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.[permanent dead link]
- "TouringCarTimes - ETCC: Fernando Monje wins race and S2000 title". www.touringcartimes.com. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- Hudson, Neil (14 July 2012). "New SEAT engine for Monje, whilst Monteiro still waits". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- "Campos Racing confirm Monje and Valente for 2013". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. 13 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- Abbott, Andrew (7 April 2013). "Oriola takes maiden win in Morocco". Touring-Cars.net. Andrew Abbott. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- Hudson, Neil (7 April 2013). "Fernando Monje given penalty for Thompson collision". TouringCarTimes. Mediaempire Stockholm AB. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- Official website
- Fernando Monje on Twitter
- Fernando Monje career summary at DriverDB.com
