Charles Pic

Author: RasputinLives

Born Feb 15th 1990, Charles Pic will be the second youngest driver on the grid in 2012 being 3 weeks younger than Sergio Perez and 2 months older than Jean-Eric Vergne. I'ts been a fast rise for Pic but a patchy one; in fact he's never won a championship in any of the formulas he's raced in. However he's impressed enough to be promoted up to the next level - maybe a bit too quickly.

He came 3rd in Formula Renault Campus in 2006, 3rd in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 in 2007 and 3rd in the Formula Renault 3.5 series in 2009. He gained victories in all these season (and in his 2008 season in Formula Renault 3.5) and to be fair to Pic, in all these categories the teams he were racing for were not the front running team. For instance in the 2009 3.5 series he finished 3rd in the championship (finishing in front of the likes of Alguersauri, Ricciardo and Bianchi), while his team, Tech 1 Racing, were a distant 4th in the constructors'.

The same could be said of his first year in GP2, driving for Arden International. After being tried out in the 8 race series GP2 Asia and scoring 1 victory, Pic went on to score a fine win in his first ever GP2 race in Spain. Nine GP2 races and 2 wins meant he really did get everyone's attention. However the rest of the season didn't match the brilliant start, mainly due to the Arden car(they only finished 7th in the constructers) - although he did score good results at Belgium and Germany. [Read more]