🇪🇸 Felix Porteiro

Felix Porteiro is a retired Spanish racing driver whose professional-level career, rated at 5,132, sits at the established professional band; this is a driver who has raced full-time in strong single-seater fields and the kind of international feeder series that sit just below Formula 1. His record spans two seasons and 25 starts across Formula V8 3.5 and GP2, with two wins and three podiums overall. Porteiro holds an FIA Silver grading, denoting professional status within GT and endurance racing, though his recorded activity is confined to single-seaters.[1]

Porteiro's first season in Formula V8 3.5 in 2005 with Epsilon Euskadi was his strongest; he took two wins and reached the podium three times from 13 starts, finishing on average in the points-scoring positions. His head-to-head record against regular rivals shows competitive results: he beat Andreas Zuber eight times across 18 shared races and held a winning record against Christian Montanari, though he was consistently outpaced by faster drivers in the field such as Andreas Zuber and Tristan Gommendy, an FIA Platinum professional. In 2006 Porteiro moved to GP2 Series with Campos Racing, but the step proved difficult; he started 12 races and did not score a podium, finishing the season 21st overall. Notably, he raced repeatedly alongside Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica during this period and managed to finish ahead of them nine and nine times respectively across limited shared races, though both drivers outran him substantially more often. His career ended after the 2006 GP2 season.[2]