Pepe Oriola
| Pepe Oriola | |
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Oriola at the 2012 FIA WTCC Race of Japan.
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| Nationality |
 Spanish |
| Born |
9 July 1994 Barcelona, Spain |
| World Touring Car Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2011 |
| Current team | Campos Racing |
| Car no. | 74 |
| Former teams |
Tuenti Racing Team SUNRED Engineering |
| Starts | 72 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 4 |
| Best finish | 8th in 2012 |
| Previous series | |
| 2010 2009–2010 |
SEAT León Eurocup SEAT León Supercopa Spain |
Josep "Pepe" Oriola Vila (born 9 July 1994) is a Spanish racing driver. He became the youngest driver to race in the World Touring Car Championship when he competed in the 2011 season. As of 2014, he will act as a driver coach for Campos Racing's drivers competing in the European Touring Car Cup and the World Touring Car Championship. He will also compete in the last three rounds of the 2014 World Touring Car Championship season, that will be held in China, Japan and Macau.
Born in Barcelona, Oriola began his career in karting in 2004 at the age of nine. He switched to touring cars at the end of 2009 at the age of 15 when he competed in the final round of the SEAT León Supercopa Spain, finishing on the podium. In 2010 he competed in full seasons of both the Spanish Supercopa and SEAT León Eurocup with the Monlau Competition team. He took his first victory at the second Eurocup race at Brands Hatch, which was shortened due to a heavy accident involving Francisco Carvalho. He then took a double victory at the season finale at Valencia to move up to fourth in the final Eurocup standings. He also finished fourth in the Supercopa standings.
In 2011 Oriola raced a SEAT León in the World Touring Car Championship for Sunred Engineering. He became the youngest ever driver in the series when he made his debut, aged 16 years, 8 months and 11 days at the 2011 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil. He scored his first points in the second race of the season at Curitiba.
Oriola will continue in the WTCC in 2012, staying with Sunred but now racing under the Tuenti Racing Team banner. He left the first round in Italy in a three way tie for first place in the Yokohama Trophy with Stefano D'Aste and Alex MacDowall, having started from the class pole position in race one. He took his first overall podium finish in race two of the Race of Portugal. Oriola spent much of the season at the top of the Yokohama Trophy but dropped behind Norbert Michelisz in the standings after the Race of Brazil. He took his second podium finish of the season in race two of the Race of Japan with second place behind Stefano D'Aste having started from that position on the reversed grid.
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