Oliver Oakes
Oliver Oakes ( born January 11, 1988 in Norwich ) is a British racing driver.
Career
Oakes began his motorsport career in 1995 in karting, where he was active until 2005. Among other things, he won the 2005 World Karting Championship of the formula A. In 2006 he moved to Formula racing and competed in the British Formula BMW. With a win, he finished the season in sixth place overall. He also competed in several races in various Formula series. In 2007, he joined both the North European Formula Renault, where he finished fourth overall, and in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup, which he finished in twelfth to. In the 2007 season, he was promoted as a member of the Red Bull Junior Team Red Bull.
2008 Oakes received no cockpit for a full season and he competed in several races of the British Formula 3 Championship, where he finished 19th overall in the Formula 3 Euro Series and the International Formula Master. In 2009 he started the season in the British Formula 3 championship for Carlin Motorsport. After only two race weekends, he left his team and finished at the end of the year in which he came into office in any other racing series, the 18th overall.
Oakes 2010 entered for ATECH CRS GP in the newly founded GP3 Series, finishing in 28th place overall.