Marta García (racing driver)

Marta García López (born 9 August 2000) is a Spanish racing driver who currently competes in the 2024 Formula Regional European Championship with Iron Dames. She most recently competed in F1 Academy for the team in 2023, becoming the inaugural champion of the series with two races to spare. She is a race winner in the W Series and won titles including the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy and the Trofeo delle Industrie in 2015, the oldest kart race in the world.

Personal life
Marta García López was born in Dénia, Spain on 9 August 2000.

She is not related to fellow Spanish racing driver Belén García.

Career
Marta García started her motorsports career in kart racing, where she won titles including the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy in 2015 and the Trofeo delle Industrie of 2015, the oldest kart race in the world, which has previously been won by many Formula 1 champions, such as Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.

F4 Spanish Championship
In 2016, García made her single-seater debut as a guest driver for Drivex in the second half of the F4 Spanish Championship.

In 2017 she joined MP Motorsport to contest the full F4 Spanish Championship. Her best race result was a fifth place at Circuito de Jerez and she finished the season in ninth overall. She also participated in a single round of the SMP F4 Championship.

Formula One
In 2017, García joined the Renault Sport Academy but was dropped after one season.

W Series
In 2019, she took part in the inaugural W Series, finishing fourth in the championship. She took one victory and one pole position at the Norisring event.

Garcia was set to contest the 2020 championship before it was cancelled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A ten-event eSports series was held on iRacing in its place, with García taking second place in the championship.

García joined the newly-formed Puma team for the 2021 W Series season. She initially qualified in seventh place for the opening round of the season at the Red Bull Ring, but retired on lap twelve with when her car developed mechanical problems. Four non-points finishes and only a single podium followed, which left García twelfth in the standings at the end of the season.

She returned for the 2022 W Series, racing for the CortDAO W Series Team, and was sixth in the points standings with one pole and one podium when the series ended early for financial reasons.

In early 2023, W Series announced the series was no longer running, at which point she was now racing in F1 Academy. She left W Series with one win, four podiums, and two poles.

F1 Academy
On 21 March 2023, García was confirmed to be driving in the newly launched all-female F1 Academy series, for the Prema Racing team.

Garcia began the season at the Red Bull Ring, taking pole position for races 1 and 3, then winning those races. At Circuit Ricardo Tormo, García qualified in pole position for races one and two; however, she was later judged to have track limit infringements during the first qualifying session and lost pole position for race one.

During the final round at Circuit of the Americas in race one of three of the weekend, García secured the inaugural F1 Academy championship. She ended the season with seven wins and five poles, the most of any driver on that lineup.

Formula Regional European Championship
Following García's success in F1 Academy, she received a fully-funded seat in the 2024 Formula Regional European Championship with Prema Racing. However, in April, she announced that she would switch to Iron Dames for the season to partner Mercedes junior Doriane Pin, as the Italian team makes its debut in the series.

Formula E
García would make her debut in Formula E machinery as she took part in the Berlin rookie test with the ERT Formula E Team.

Career summary
† As García was a guest driver, she was ineligible for points. * Season still in progress

Complete F4 Spanish Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † As García was a guest driver, she was ineligible for points.

Complete W Series results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete F1 Academy results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula Regional European Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)