Pepe Martí

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Pepe Martí
NationalitySpain Spanish
Full nameJosep Maria Martí Sobrepera
Born (2005-06-13) 13 June 2005 (age 16)
Barcelona, Spain
FIA Formula 3 Championship career
Debut season2022
Current teamCampos Racing
Car number22
Starts0 (0 entries)
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finishTBD in 2022
Previous series
2022
2021
2021		FR Asian Championship
F4 Spanish Championship
Formula 4 UAE Championship
Championship titles
2022FR Asian Rookie Cup

Josep Maria "Pepe" Martí Sobrepera (born 13 June 2005) is a Spanish racing driver who currently races in FIA Formula 3 for Campos Racing. He is a race winner in the UAE and Spanish Formula 4 championships, and also the 2022 Formula Regional Asian Championship runner-up.[1][2]

Career[]

Karting[]

Martí started karting competitively in late 2016 at the age of eleven. In 2018 he was signed by Tony Kart, and the following year he won the Spanish Karting Championship in the Junior category, driving for Fernando Alonso's team.[3][4] He then went on to finish 7th in the OK class of the CIK-FIA Karting World Championship in 2020, his last year of karting, with Kart Republic.[5]

Formula 4[]

Martí made his single-seater debut in January 2021, driving for Xcel Motorsport in the Formula 4 UAE Championship.[6] He won a single race at the Yas Marina Circuit and came 7th in the standings, 184 points behind champion Enzo Trulli.[7] For the main season, he competed in Spanish F4 with Campos Racing, as the Valencian team made its debut in the championship.[8] He won two races at MotorLand Aragón and held a season-long fight for runner-up spot with teammate Sebastian Øgaard, ultimately finishing 3rd behind eventual champion Dilano van 't Hoff and Øgaard.[9]

Formula Regional[]

Martí started 2022 racing in the rebranded Formula Regional Asian Championship for Irish-Filipino team Pinnacle Motorsport, alongside Formula 4 rival Van 't Hoff.[10][11] He got five podiums and 158 points from 15 races to claim second place in the overall standings, while also winning the rookie cup.[12]

FIA Formula 3[]

After testing for the team in 2021 post-season, Martí made the step up to the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2022 with Campos Racing.[13][14]

Racing record[]

Racing career summary[]

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2021 Formula 4 UAE Championship Xcel Motorsport 19 1 1 0 4 135 7th
F4 Spanish Championship Campos Racing 21 2 3 4 9 196 3rd
2022 Formula Regional Asian Championship Pinnacle Motorsport 15 0 0 2 5 158 2nd
FIA Formula 3 Championship Campos Racing

* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula 4 UAE Championship results[]

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pos Points
2021 Xcel Motorsport DUB1
1
Ret 		DUB1
2
DNS 		DUB1
3
Ret 		DUB1
4
Ret 		YMC1
1
3 		YMC1
2
4 		YMC1
3
11 		YMC1
4
8 		DUB2
1
6 		DUB2
2
2 		DUB2
3
5 		DUB2
4
8 		YMC2
1
3 		YMC2
2
1 		YMC2
3
4 		YMC2
4
Ret 		DUB3
1
Ret 		DUB3
2
4 		DUB3
3
11 		DUB3
4
Ret 		7th 135

Complete F4 Spanish Championship results[]

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pos Points
2021 Campos Racing SPA
1
5 		SPA
2
6 		SPA
3
2 		NAV
1
12 		NAV
2
10 		NAV
3
9 		ALG
1
Ret 		ALG
2
3 		ALG
3
12 		ARA
1
3 		ARA
2
1 		ARA
3
1 		CRT
1
2 		CRT
2
11 		CRT
3
7 		JER
1
5 		JER
2
3 		JER
3
3 		CAT
1
2 		CAT
2
11 		CAT
3
4 		3rd 196

Complete Formula Regional Asian Championship results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 DC Points
2022 Pinnacle Motorsport ABU
1
Ret 		ABU
2
Ret 		ABU
3
4 		DUB
1
2 		DUB
2
7 		DUB
3
2 		DUB
1
4 		DUB
2
4 		DUB
3
2 		DUB
1
3 		DUB
2
4 		DUB
3
3 		ABU
1
12 		ABU
2
4 		ABU
3
6 		2nd 158

Complete FIA Formula 3 Championship results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DC Points
2022 Campos Racing BHR
SPR
28† 		BHR
FEA
13 		IMO
SPR 		IMO
FEA 		CAT
SPR 		CAT
FEA 		SIL
SPR 		SIL
FEA 		RBR
SPR 		RBR
FEA 		HUN
SPR 		HUN
FEA 		SPA
SPR 		SPA
FEA 		ZAN
SPR 		ZAN
FEA 		MNZ
SPR 		MNZ
FEA 		19th* 0*

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as they completed more than 90% of the race distance.
* Season still in progress.

References[]

  1. ^ Wood, Ida (26 January 2022). "Campos Racing promotes F4 star Pepe Marti to F3". Formula Scout. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Pepe Martí debutará en FIA Formula 3 con Campos Racing". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 26 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. ^ González, Marc (4 March 2018). "Conoce al nuevo piloto español que ha fichado por Tony Kart, la Ferrari del karting". FormulaRapida.net (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Pepe Martí: "La regularidad nos dió el título en el CEK"". vroomkart.es (in Spanish). 27 December 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Pepe Martí completa una gran actuación en el Mundial de Karting". RevistaSafetyCar.com (in Spanish). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  6. ^ Wood, Elliot (28 December 2020). "Spanish karter Pepe Martí to step up to cars in F4 UAE". Formula Scout. Retrieved 26 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Blancafort, Raymond (8 February 2021). "F4 Emiratos Árabes: primera victoria de Pepe Martí". SoyMotor.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Campos Racing announces Formula 4 Spain driver pool". Campos Racing. 5 January 2021. Archived from the original on 5 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  9. ^ Blancafort, Raymond (16 November 2021). "Pepe Martí acaba tercero de la Fórmula 4 española 2021". SoyMotor.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Marti e Van't Hoff, le punte di Pinnacle". italiaracing.net (in Italian). 13 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Pepe Martí prepara l'F3 als Emirats Àrabs". Esport3 (in Catalan). 17 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  12. ^ Blancafort, Raymond (19 February 2022). "Leclerc ya es campeón de la Fórmula Regional Asiática y Martí consigue el subcampeonato". SoyMotor (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  13. ^ "Pepe Martí brilla en los test postemporada de la FIA F3 en Valencia". Marca (in Spanish). 3 November 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  14. ^ "Pepe Martí debutará en Formula 3 con 16 años". Sport (in Spanish). 26 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.

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