15 Facts About Mikel Azcona

Mikel Azcona Troyas was born on 25 June 1996 and is a Spanish auto racing driver who competes in the World Touring Car Cup for PWR Racing.

Mikel Azcona won the TCR Europe Touring Car Series championship in 2018 and 2021 and the WTCR championship in 2022.

In 2012, he made the transition from karting to touring car competitions, since it was where Mikel Azcona saw a professional future if he stood out in those races, instead of single-seater competitions.

Mikel Azcona started at the age of 15 with the car that would compete continuously for the following years, the Renault Clio with which he would participate in Class 2 of the CER together with Diego Rodriguez.

Mikel Azcona finished that year in third position in the CER Ferodo Sport Challenge.

Mikel Azcona continued in the Seat Leon Eurocup in the 2016 season.

Mikel Azcona won four races and eight podiums, but they were not enough to become champion and he was runner-up behind Niels Langeveld.

Mikel Azcona made four appearances in Renault Clio Cup Spain, winning two of them and finished fifth in the drivers standings.

In 2017, Mikel Azcona participated in the Audi Sport TT Cup, winning six races during the season: two at the Norisring, one at Zandvoort, two at Nurburgring and one at Hockenheimring and finished in second place three times.

Mikel Azcona finished runner-up in the standings behind Philip Ellis, who had achieved two more podiums than Azcona.

Mikel Azcona's regularity allowed him to beat Jean-Karl Vernay to finally get his first title.

Mikel Azcona was the subject of controversy at the final race of the 2019 WTCR season in Malaysia after influencing the outcome of the championship.

Mikel Azcona was given a 30-second time penalty for the incident.

In 2021, Mikel Azcona completed a WTCR-European double program, contesting the first season of the ETCR and completing other national championship races in Spain, Italy and Germany.

Mikel Azcona clinched the WTCR Drivers' championship during the qualifying session of the FIA WTCR Race of Saudi Arabia making him the last driver to do so.