Oliver Jarvis (born 9 January 1984) is a British professional racing driver currently racing in the

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for Mazda Team Joest. Jarvis won the

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with

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Early life

Born in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, he was educated at The King's School, Ely.

Racing career

Jarvis was first introduced to motorsport from an early age when his father Carl was competing in

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1600. Keen to try it for himself, and at just six years old, Jarvis enjoyed his first motorcross competition, albeit then two wheels not four. At the age of eight, Jarvis 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. Jarvis moved from European Karting when he was 18 to the highly competitive British single seater car championships racing in the

category for two successful seasons before moving up to Formula Renault. 2005 proved to be an outstanding year of achievements for Jarvis 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. Jarvis's perfect end to the year was receiving the prestigious McLaren Autosport Young Driver of The Year Award that December, presented to him by

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legend

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. 2006 saw Jarvis move up to the British F3 International Series, racing for the famous

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team, run by

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. Jarvis was an instant success, and won two races, beating

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(nephew of the late Ayrton) to 2nd in the standings. He went on to dominate the end of season Macau F3 Grand Prix in 2007, leading every lap and looking unchallenged throughout to take the biggest victory of his career. Jarvis was added to the roster for

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, and may get a chance to race often in 2006-07 season, should he impress more than

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and

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, or should the two be unavailable for any reason. DTM Audi A4 Jarvis09 amk

Jarvis did get his first chance at the

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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

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spinning, bringing out the Safety Car for a majority of the race. In the Feature race, Jarvis 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, Jarvis moved up to fourth, and looked to be heading for that position, until the leading duo,

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and

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both retired on the same lap, leaving Jarvis to finish second, behind

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's Enrico Toccacelo. Jarvis' next outing was at the

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round. This time Jarvis went one better, winning the Feature race for

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's first ever A1 Grand Prix victory. Oliver Jarvis 2014 Super GT Suzuka Race

During the Pokka 1000km in Suzuka, Jarvis won the race partnering with

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and André Lotterer despite not having to drive throughout the race. Jarvis now raced from 2008 until 2011 in the DTM for

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. Although he did not get a cockpit for the 2012 season, he competed in the

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for Audi. In 2013, Jarvis raced for Alex Job Racing with an Audi R8 Grand-Am in the

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. He won the class. He also won the 2013 12 Hours of Sebring and came third at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans in an

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. When Audi pulled out of WEC, he signed a contract to race in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup for Bentley during 2017. He also raced in the WEC under Jackie Chan DC Racing in LMP2. This led to him getting a class victory at Le Mans 24 Hours and second overall. They went on to score second in the championship standings. For 2018, he will be racing in the

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for Mazda Team Joest.

Racing record

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

Complete Super GT results

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

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) *† — Retired, but was classified as he completed 90 per cent of the winner's race distance.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

References

External links

Official websiteGallery of Oliver's first A1GP Team GBR Official Test, at Silverstone
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