Adrián Vallés


Adrián Vallés Escortell is a Spanish race car driver.

Career

After a strong karting career, he drove in Spanish Formula Three, before moving to the World Series by Nissan in 2004. The series was renamed World Series by Renault in 2005 while he continued in the series, finishing 2nd in the standings with two race wins. In 2006 he started racing in the GP2 Series with Campos Racing, and also tested for the MF1 Racing Formula One team on 19 September. The team was bought out by Spyker and on 30 January 2007 Vallés was named the team's official reserve driver.
He returned to GP2 for 2008, driving for the FMS International team in the GP2 Asia Series. He remained with the team for the first round of the 2008 GP2 Series season, but then switched to BCN Competicion. He elected to miss the final round of the season at Monza to focus on his sportscar commitments. Vallés returned to the GP2 Asia Series, by replacing Chris van der Drift at Trident Racing for the third round of the season in Bahrain. Vallés and van der Drift would later team up to be the drivers for Epsilon Euskadi in the 2009 World Series by Renault season.
Additionally, Vallés has begun a sportscar career in 2008 with Epsilon Euskadi by driving in the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 2008 1000km of Silverstone.
He moved on to team management in 2013 with his AV Formula team entering the 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season with Arthur Pic and Yann Cunha as their drivers.

Formula One

Adrian took part in testing at Silverstone in September 2006 testing for team Spyker although at the time they were Midland F1. He was then confirmed at test driver for Midland for. He tested for Spyker in 2007.

Superleague Formula

On 8 November 2009, Valles clinched the 2009 title with a solid fourth place for Liverpool in the final race of the season in Jarama.

Racing record

Career summary

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

YearEntrant1234567891011121314151617DCPoints
2005Pons RacingZOL
1
6
ZOL
2
6
MON
1
3
VAL
1
4
VAL
2
2
LMS
1
13
LMS
2
7
BIL
1
10
BIL
2
6
OSC
1
5
OSC
2
7
DON
1

1
DON
2
2
EST
1
Ret
EST
2
Ret
MNZ
1
1
MNZ
2
2
2nd116
2009Epsilon EuskadiCAT
1

3
CAT
2
4
SPA
1
DNS
SPA
2
Ret
MON
1
8
HUN
1
16
HUN
2
Ret
SIL
1
12
SIL
2
14
BUG
1
BUG
2
ALG
1
ALG
2
NÜR
1
NÜR
2
ALC
1
ALC
2
17th19

Complete GP2 Series results

YearEntrant123456789101112131415161718192021DCPoints
2006Campos RacingVAL
FEA
3
VAL
SPR
Ret
IMO
FEA
9
IMO
SPR
Ret
NÜR
FEA
Ret
NÜR
SPR
14
CAT
FEA

18
CAT
SPR
16
MON
FEA
Ret
SIL
FEA
9
SIL
SPR
Ret
MAG
FEA
15
MAG
SPR
13
HOC
FEA
18
HOC
SPR
Ret
HUN
FEA
Ret
HUN
SPR
7
IST
FEA
Ret
IST
SPR
14
MNZ
FEA
Ret
MNZ
SPR
11
18th7
2008FMS InternationalCAT
FEA
18
CAT
SPR
11
21st5
2008BCN CompeticionIST
FEA
10
IST
SPR
Ret
MON
FEA
4
MON
SPR
16
MAG
FEA
15
MAG
SPR
12
SIL
FEA
22
SIL
SPR
14
HOC
FEA
15
HOC
SPR
Ret
HUN
FEA
Ret
HUN
SPR
19
VAL
FEA
11
VAL
SPR
Ret
SPA
FEA
13
SPA
SPR
13
MNZ
FEA
WD
MNZ
SPR
WD
21st5

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

YearEntrant123456789101112DCPoints
2008FMS InternationalDUB1
FEA
4
DUB1
SPR
Ret
SEN
FEA
2
SEN
SPR
5
SEP
FEA
Ret
SEP
SPR
20
BHR
FEA
5
BHR
SPR
Ret
DUB2
FEA
Ret
DUB2
SPR
10
7th19
2008–09Trident RacingSHI
FEA
SHI
SPR
DUB
FEA
DUB
SPR
BHR1
FEA
Ret
BHR1
SPR
19
LSL
FEA
LSL
SPR
SEP
FEA
SEP
SPR
BHR2
FEA
BHR2
SPR
40th0

Superleague Formula

2008–2009

2009 Super Final results