Cristian Alvarez

Cristian Alexander Alvarez Rosas (born 29 October 1997) is a Venezuelan simracer. He started competitve sim racing in 2014, when he was invited by a friend to race in South American's F1 Online League.

Sim racing career
Alvarez started his career in early 2014, using EA's F1 Challenge 99-02 in a Venezuelan league using F1 Superleague 2012 modification, his first 2 races had a poor performance finishing both races in last place, for next round they started to use F1 Superleague 2014 modification where he managed to get a podium as best result during the season. during mid 2014 he founded F1 Creations with some friends using F1 Challenge 99-02 with custom teams and liveries to have a league with 30 rounds using that lasted from 2014-2015. In mid-2015 was planned to start a 2015-2016 season in his league, but after 9 rounds league shutted down and he decided to switch to rFactor and thus joined Race4Speed's F3 Series with his friends of F1 Creations getting first podium at Mount Panorama after a incredible battle with Matthew Wheeler. In 2016 he continue in F3 Series and joined GP1 Series, but after 8 rounds left his own team with 1 win and 2 podiums in F3 Series and after 9 rounds he lefts his team in GP1 series. Joining Team GM obtaining 1 win in the only event that he showed up and Repsol Swinegel Racing in GP1 series that gave him a boost in his performance obtaining 5 podiums, 2 fastest laps, 1 Pole Position and 1 win in the last round at Brazil. In 2017 he raced in GP Latina Nascar Series where he won Championship with 4 wins. and also raced in Race4Speed's GP1 Series 2017-I getting 3rd place in the championship after an intense fight for Vice Championship with Constantin Grimminger until last round. for GP1 Series 2017-II due to the short time available for the races, another driver was given his place in Repsol Swinegel Team, but Alvarez continued with the support of Repsol Swinegel Racing, so he reopened Shadow Team by RSR, where he got 10 podiums, 1 pole position, 1 Fastest lap and 2 wins. finishing 5th in the championship despite missing almost half season.

Career summary
¹ — season in progress.

Race4Speed F3 Series
(Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
 * D.C. = Drivers' Championship position

Race4Speed GP1 Series
(Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
 * D.C. = Drivers' Championship position

¹ — season in progress.