Andy Soucek

Andy Soucek
Nationality	Spanish
Born	June 14, 1985 (1985-06-14) Madrid (Spain)
2012 Superleague Formula
Previous series
2009 2008 2008 2006-08 2002-05	Formula Two Superleague Formula GP2 Asia Series GP2 Series Spanish F3 Championship
Championship titles
2005 2009	Spanish F3 Champion FIA Formula Two

Andy Christian Soucek, aka Souček (born June 14, 1985 in Madrid, Spain) is a professional racecar driver.

Career

Soucek's father is Austrian, and he has Austrian and Spanish nationality, although he was born in Spain and has spent his life there. He races under the Spanish flag because he "feels Spanish". Soucek's career started in professional karting events during 1997, although he would not make a formula debut until his Portuguese Formula Ford drive of 2001. In 2002 he continued with karting whilst driving in Spanish Formula Three. In 2003 he ended his karting commitments, moving to the EV team. He remained with EV during 2004 but would also drive two races for the GTA team. 2005 would be his key year, though, with Soucek's move to the Llusia team paying off after he won the title.

Soucek driving for Super Nova Racing at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

After being in contention for the 2006 Championship in the World Series by Renault, Soucek signed to race in the GP2 Series for 2007 with the DPR team. He remained with DPR for the first round of the 2008 GP2 Asia Series, but was dropped after signing for rival team FMS International for the premier 2008 championship. Surprisingly, with only five days to the 2008 championship start, FMS International terminated Soucek's contract unilaterally, replacing him with fellow Spaniard Roldán Rodríguez [1]. This left Soucek without time to find a new team in time for the season start. A legal dispute resulted between Soucek and FMS International.[2]

However, he returned to race in the series after one round of the championship as a replacement for the injured Christian Bakkerud in the Super Nova team. After two races with Super Nova, Soucek then returned to the DPR team where he replaced Giacomo Ricci, himself substituting for the injured Michael Herck. and scoring his first championship point. Following his stint with DPR, Soucek returned once more to Super Nova as a permanent replacement for Bakkerud. He achieved one podium (at Hungaroring) and several more point finishes and ended the season tied with Roldán Rodríguez as best Spaniard.

Andy Soucek also represented the Brazilian side Corinthians (managed by EuroInternational group) in the 1st race of the 2008 Superleague Formula season, as Corinthians main driver Antônio Pizzonia was unable to participate, because of his schedule in Stock Car Brasil.

Soucek testing the Superleague Formula prototype car at Donington Park in 2008.

From the second race on, Soucek signed for Atlético Madrid to drive their car for the remainder of the 2008 Superleague Formula season. [3]

In 2009, Soucek raced in the newly-revived FIA Formula Two Championship, driving car number 22. Soucek clinched the title with three races to spare. As part of his prize for winning the championship, he tested for the Williams Formula One team on December 1, setting the fastest time of the day. Soucek was confident of landing a Williams reserve drive in 2010. However Williams signed Valtteri Bottas as their official reserve and test driver. But Williams' loss was Virgin Racing's gain as on 23 February 2010, they announced that Soucek will join Luiz Razia as a test and reserve driver. In August, Soucek left Virgin, stating that the team had broken their contract by not giving him any testing opportunities. In September 2010 he returned to Superleague Formula, racing for Galatasaray

He co-founded Integrated Racing Performance, a racing driver consultancy company, with Derrick Vopelka and Jorge Gil in 2011.

Racing record

Complete GP2 Series 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	DC	Points
2007	David Price Racing	BHR FEA 12	BHR SPR 9	ESP FEA 14	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 14	FRA FEA 13	FRA SPR 10	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 20	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR 13	HUN FEA 12	HUN SPR Ret	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR Ret	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 7	BEL FEA 6	BEL SPR 2	VAL FEA 6	VAL SPR 3	16th	15
2008	Super Nova Racing	ESP FEA	ESP SPR	TUR FEA 19	TUR SPR Ret			FRA FEA 13	FRA SPR Ret	GBR FEA 12	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA 7	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 8	HUN SPR 2	EUR FEA 7	EUR SPR Ret	BEL FEA 6	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA 9	ITA SPR 18		14th	14
	David Price Racing					MON FEA 13	MON SPR 6

Complete GP2 Asia Series 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	DC	Points
2008	David Price Racing	UAE FEA 3	UAE SPR 7	IND FEA	IND SPR	MAL FEA	MAL SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	UAE FEA	UAE SPR	14th	6

Superleague Formula record

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

Year	Team	Operator	1		2		3		4		5		6		Position	Points
2008	SC Corinthians	EuroInternational	DON												9th	264
			11	12
	Atlético Madrid				NÜR		ZOL		EST		VAL		JER		18th	132
					DN	9	5	13	6	17	16	12	16	18

Complete Formula Two results

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

Year	No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Points
2009	22	VAL 1 Ret	VAL 2 4	BRN 1 17	BRN 2 1	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 2	BRH 1 2	BRH 2 1	DON 1 1	DON 2 4	OSC 1 1	OSC 2 2	IMO 1 3	IMO 2 1	CAT 1 1	CAT 2 1	1st	115

External links

• Personal web site In Spanish (clicking "Palmarés" key, there's a pdf CV also in English and German)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Borja García	Spanish Formula Three champion 2005	Succeeded by Ricardo Risatti
Preceded by Mike Thackwell (1984 European Formula Two)	FIA Formula Two champion 2009	Succeeded by Dean Stoneman