Marcos Martínez (racing driver)
Marcos Martínez Ucha is a Spanish former professional racecar driver.
Career
Martínez competed in karting events from 1998 until 2002, when he entered Spanish Formula Junior. He would stay there with moderate success for three years, moving to Spanish Formula Three in 2005 with the team Racing Engineering and reaching the second place in the B-Class. In 2006, he jumped to the A-Class, managing an outstanding victory in Cheste, Valencia. Meanwhile, he participated in three races in the Formula [Renault 3.5 Series], where he managed to start fourth on the grid and run in second place in one of the races. In 2007, he began racing Spanish Formula Three with a new team, Novoteam. After 3 meetings and due to the results obtained he changed to Tec-Auto searching for an improvement in the championship.Martínez competed in the latter part of the 2007 [GP2 Series season] for the Racing Engineering team, alongside Javier Villa and replacing Ernesto Viso. However, he did not compete in the races of the first meeting in which he was entered, as he failed to lap within 107% of the pole position time after problems in qualifying.
Martínez returned to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series full-time for 2008, driving for Pons Racing alongside compatriot Máximo Cortés, and will continue with the team in 2009. His season began with two wins at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló. He followed that up with a third win in succession at Spa. He was the championship leader at the halfway stage, meaning that he was entitled to demonstrating a Renault Formula One car at the Silverstone meeting. He also added his fourth win of the season at that meeting. He did not score a point after that and slipped to seventh in the championship standings.
Racing record
Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | DC | Points |
| 2006 | EuroInternational | ZOL 1 | ZOL 2 | MON 1 | IST 1 | IST 2 | MIS 1 | MIS 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | NÜR 1 Ret | NÜR 2 Ret | DON 1 Ret | DON 2 Ret | LMS 1 DNS | LMS 2 Ret | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | NC | 0 |
| 2008 | Pons Racing | MNZ 1 Ret | MNZ 2 Ret | SPA 1 Ret | SPA 2 9 | MON 1 15 | SIL 1 2 | SIL 2 6 | HUN 1 13 | HUN 2 Ret | NÜR 1 11 | NÜR 2 11 | BUG 1 15 | BUG 2 24 | EST 1 11 | EST 2 7 | CAT 1 Ret | CAT 2 Ret | 15th | 21 |
| 2009 | Pons Racing | CAT 1 1 | CAT 2 1 | SPA 1 1 | SPA 2 5 | MON 1 Ret | HUN 1 6 | HUN 2 Ret | SIL 1 1 | SIL 2 6 | LEM 1 17 | LEM 2 Ret | ALG 1 15 | ALG 2 Ret | NÜR 1 Ret | NÜR 2 Ret | ALC 1 11 | ALC 2 13 | 7th | 73 |
| 2011 | Pons Racing | ALC 1 | ALC 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | MON 1 | NÜR 1 | NÜR 2 | HUN 1 Ret | HUN 2 13 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | LEC 1 | LEC 2 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | 31st | 0 |
Complete GP2 Series results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | DC | Points |
| 2007 | Racing Engineering | BHR FEA | BHR SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MAG FEA | MAG SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | NÜR FEA | NÜR SPR | HUN FEA DNQ | HUN SPR DNQ | IST FEA 13 | IST SPR Ret | MNZ FEA Ret | MNZ SPR Ret | SPA FEA Ret | SPA SPR Ret | VAL FEA 4 | VAL SPR 22 | 22nd | 5 |
Complete Superleague Formula results
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Rank | Pts |
| 2010 | Sevilla FC EmiliodeVillota Motorsport | SIL 6 | SIL 9 | ASS 12 | ASS 4 | MAG 16 | MAG 17 | JAR 15 | JAR 16 | NÜR 11 | NÜR 13 | ZOL 8 | ZOL 15 | BRH 16 | BRH 8 | ADR 14 | ADR 1 | POR 12 | POR 18 | ORD 8 | ORD 9 | BEI 16 | BEI 4 | NAV 15 | NAV 3 | 14th | 355 |