Women in Motosport

MARTA GARCIA

NAME Marta Garcia Lopez 
AGE 23 - born in August, 9 2000
COUNTRY Spain 
JOB Racing driver 

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Following Garcia's success in F1 Academy, she received a fully-funded seat in the 2024 Formula Regional European Championship with Prema Racing.