Jaime Alguersuari

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Alguersuari began his formula racing career, in the Italian Formula 1600 Junior Series, in 2005.

Jaime Víctor Alguersuari Escudero (born 23 March 1990), also known as Jaume Alguersuari, and Squire is a Spanish DJ and retired racing driver best known for competing in Formula One between and , and for being the 2008 British Formula 3 champion.

He is the son of Jaime Alguersuari, Sr., a former motorcyclist and racing driver.

In 2006, he won the Italian Formula Renault Winter Series, before finishing as runner-up to Mika Mäki in the main championship the following year.

He moved up to the British Formula Three Championship for 2008, driving for the Carlin Motorsport alongside teammates Brendon Hartley, Oliver Turvey and Sam Abay.

After a season-long battle between Alguersuari, Hartley, Turvey and Sergio Pérez, Alguersuari won the final three races of the season to clinch the championship.

He thus became the youngest title winner in championship history, aged 18 years and 203 days.

He also deputised for the injured Mark Webber in the 2008 Race of Champions event at the Wembley Stadium in December 2008.

Alguersuari became the youngest Formula One driver to start a Grand Prix in history at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix – at the age of 19 years, 125 days – and in the process, became the first driver to be born in the 1990s to compete in Formula One.

He competed in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2009, continuing with the Carlin team and with Turvey once again as his teammate.

At the time of his move to Formula One mid-season, he was eighth in the championship, with one podium finish, and was the second-highest rookie driver in the standings behind Turvey.

Despite his promotion to an F1 race seat, he carried on in FR3.5.

A week after his Formula One debut, Alguersuari returned to the series at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, and scored both his first pole, and his first victory in the series.

His 27-point haul for the weekend moved him from eighth to third in the championship standings.

Alguersuari eventually ended up sixth, dropping from third in the final race.

Alguersuari took over the role of reserve driver for the Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One teams from fellow Red Bull Junior driver Brendon Hartley in the second half of the 2009 Formula One season.

Less than two weeks later, race driver Sébastien Bourdais left the Toro Rosso team after the 2009 German Grand Prix and Alguersuari was immediately expected to be his successor, despite the lack of an official confirmation.

Four days later, Toro Rosso announced that Alguersuari would drive for the team at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.

He became the youngest ever Formula One driver at the age of 19 years and 125 days, breaking the record previously held by Mike Thackwell.

He became only the seventh teenager to start a Grand Prix.

Qualifying in last place following a mechanical problem, he finished the race in fifteenth, one place ahead of his teammate Sébastien Buemi.

Through the rest of the season, he had little success, with his best result coming at the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, where he managed 14th place.

At the remaining 8 races, he only finished 3 of them and retired in the other 5.

During the season he also had a huge crash in the while he was attempting to chase for his first points.

Toro Rosso retained Alguersuari for the 2010 season, starting with a career-best finishes of thirteenth in Bahrain and eleventh in Australia including 22 laps battling with the 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher.

In Malaysia one week later, Alguersuari scored his first ever Formula One points with a ninth-placed finish.

Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost praised Alguersuari's performance, saying the Spaniard "drove a fantastic race".

Alguersuari then scored another point after finishing tenth at his home Grand Prix.

In May, Alguersuari visited the Dominican Republic with his Red Bull team and became one of the first drivers to ever drive a Formula 1 vehicle on the beaches there.

In the next 14 races, he only had one more points finish, at the final race of the year in Abu Dhabi.

After losing his drive with the Toro Rosso team in late 2011, Alguersuari joined British radio station BBC Radio 5 Live to be their expert summariser for the 2012 Formula One season, alongside lead commentator James Allen.

At the age of 25, Alguersuari officially retired from motorsport to concentrate on his DJ career.

Toro Rosso confirmed that Alguersuari was to be retained alongside Sébastien Buemi for the 2011 season.

After finishing the first two races outside the points, Alguersuari qualified inside the top ten for the first time in Formula One, with a seventh place grid start in China.

This record was broken by Max Verstappen in 2015 who competed at just 17 years of age.

Two 16th places and a retirement followed in the next three races, before taking his best Formula One placing of eighth at the, and then matching that at the.

These results came at a crucial time for Alguersuari, with Daniel Ricciardo being linked to replace Alguersuari for the season.

Alguersuari finished tenth at the, giving him a run of three consecutive point scoring finishes.

He qualified a career best 6th at the before being forced to retire during the race after a first corner collision with Bruno Senna.

Alguersuari finished in seventh place at the, improving upon his previous best of two eighth places earlier in the season.