Albert Costa (racing driver)

Albert Costa
Albert Costa at the 2011 Nürburgring World Series by Renault round
Nationality	Spanish
Born	(1990-05-02) 2 May 1990 (age 26) Barcelona (Spain)
Eurocup Megane Trophy career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Oregon Team
Previous series
2008–09 2008–09 2007	Formula Renault 3.5 Formula Renault 2.0 WEC Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 British F3 National Class
Championship titles
2009 2009 2012	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 WEC Eurocup Mégane Trophy

Albert Costa Balboa (born 2 May 1990 in Barcelona) is a Spanish racing driver.

Costa started his international karting career in 2004, in the Copa Campeones Trophy for ICA Junior class karts, finishing in seventh position. He continued in the same class in 2005, with the exception of the Copa Campeones Trophy, where he competed in the ICA class. He finished seventh again in that race, adding a seventh in the Spanish ICA Junior Championship, a 27th in the Andrea Margutti Trophy, and 29th in the European Championship. However, Costa excelled himself later in the season, winning the Italian Open Masters. He held off the challenges of Charles Pic and Marcus Ericsson to win the title by nine points. He continued in karting in 2006, but moved into the ICA class full-time. He competed in five different championships over the course of the season, but only finished in the top fifteen in the Asian-Pacific Championship.

Costa made the substantial leap from karting to Formula Three, missing out many conventional lower single-seater formulae. He drove for Räikkönen Robertson Racing in the first five rounds of the series, before funds dried up. His best result came during the series' first visit to the Bucharest Ring in Romania, when he finished fourth in class, just over a second behind Hamad Al Fardan who finished third.

After his Formula Three career was cut short by lack of funds, Costa dropped down to Formula Renault to compete in the Eurocup and West European Cup for Epsilon Euskadi. Costa finished eighth in the pan-European series, despite failing to finish on the podium in any of the fourteen races. His best finish was fourth at the Nürburgring and Le Mans. He also recorded the fastest lap during the first race at Estoril. He placed three spots higher in the WEC, finishing fifth overall and runner-up in the rookie standings behind Jean-Éric Vergne.