Félix Juan Serrallés | |
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Nationality | Puerto Rican |
Born |
Ponce, Puerto Rico |
June 24, 1992
Blancpain GT Series career | |
Debut season | 2017 |
Current team | AKKA ASP |
Car no. | 88 |
Starts | 2 |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 0 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Previous series | |
2015-16 2013-14 2012–13 2012 2011 2011 2010–11 2009–10 |
Indy Lights FIA European Formula 3 Championship Toyota Racing Series British Formula 3 Championship Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault UK Formula Renault UK Winter Cup Skip Barber National Championship |
Félix Juan Serrallés IV (born June 24, 1992) is a Puerto Rican racing driver. After gathering two second-place finishes in the Caribbean Karting Championship, Serrallés joined the Skip Barber National Championship and finished third. Afterwards, he was recruited by Fortec Motorsport and moved to Europe, where he debuted in the Formula Renault. By 2012, Serrallés had fully adapted to formula racing, remaining in the run for the British Formula 3 Championship until the final race of the season and eventually finishing third. After being sidelined by a back injury for most of 2013, he joined Team West-Tec for the 2014 season of the European Formula 3 Championship.
Félix Juan Serrallés IV was born on 24 June 1992 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He is the grandson of Puerto Rican Don Q rum magnate Félix Juan Serrallés, Jr., the president of Destilería Serrallés headquartered in the same town and grandson of the late Puerto Rican entrepreneur, industrialist and inventor Efraín D. Vassallo Ruíz of Industrias Vassallo fame.
Serrallés began his racing career in karting at the age of ten and was runner-up in the Caribbean Championship in both 2004 and 2005.
After winning a scholarship in 2009 Skip Barber Shootout, Serrallés became a Mazdaspeed Development Driver and had a season in Skip Barber National Championship, where he finished third with two wins.
In 2010, Serrallés raced in Europe, taking part in the Formula Renault UK Winter Cup for Fortec Motorsport as a guest driver. He continued his collaboration with Fortec into 2011 and the Formula Renault Eurocup, scoring eight points-scoring finishes on his way to twelfth place in the series standings. He also appeared in Formula Renault UK in twelve of the season's twenty races as a guest driver and the Formula Renault UK Finals Series, where he claimed two podiums and finished eighth overall.