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A CAREER OF CHANGES

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2005

Having started his racing career in motocross, Jarvis progressed through karting with the works Tony kart team before moving to cars in Formula Ford at the age of 18. After two years he moved into Formula Renault UK, where he won his first championsh­ip title in 2005 running with Manor ( right).

2006

Jarvis graduated into British F3 for 2006, and finished second in the championsh­ip to Mike Conway. In 2007 he won the prestigiou­s Macau GP.

2007

Jarvis was called up to drive for Team GB in the A1GP series and took the country’s first race victory by triumphing in Mexico during the 2006-’07 season. He won again at Zandvoort in the Netherland­s the following season. Jarvis also made sporadic appearance­s in Japanese F3 and Super GT throughout 2007.

2009

Jarvis joined Audi in 2008 for a DTM programme, handling an A4 with Team Phoenix. He finished 13th in his first season. His breakthrou­gh podium came in the 2009 season-opener at Hockenheim with a thirdplace finish. He also finished second at Zandvoort on his way to ninth in the championsh­ip points.

2012

After four years in the DTM, which sadly failed to yield a race victory, Jarvis moved to Audi Sport’s LMP1 team. He made his Le Mans debut in 2010 at the wheel of a Kolles-run R10 TDI, but failed to finish. His first shot with the full works team came in 2012 where he finished third alongside Marco Bonanomi and Mike Rockenfell­er aboard an R18 ultra ( above). Jarvis would record two more Le Mans podiums with Audi [2013, and 2016]. Jarvis also joined Team WRT for his only season so far in GT3 racing, tackling the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championsh­ip in an R8 GT3.

2016

Jarvis enjoyed his strongest season of prototype racing by finishing second in the FIA World Endurance Championsh­ip alongside Loic Duval and Lucas di Grassi. The trio took a breakthrou­gh win at Spa and capped the year with victory in the Bahrain finale. Audi withdrew from sportscar racing at the end of the year.

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