Juan Cruz Álvarez had a good time in motorsport competing in Formula Renault and reached the World Series, a category before F1, but he retired early and after overcoming cancer he dedicated himself to electronic music.
Juan Cruz Alvarez He is a former Argentine driver who rose to fame at national level, became European champion and was part of the structure of a team of Formula 1but one day he got tired of the motorsport environment and after retiring he started a new career as a DJ.
The man born on November 20, 1985 started in the world of steel at the age of 8 when his father Carlos, a car salesman, was given a karting and his son kept it. Thus began an upward path where, after establishing himself at the regional level, he competed at the national level and became the champion of Argentina in 1997.
Then came the time to cross the borders and he also had good results by getting the North American Championshipas the first in the country to win an FIA international championship and in 2002 he was runner-up in the Formula Renault title, to start his path in cars.
That same year, he tried the Open Nissan and it didn’t go too badly. “In the second test in Valencia I made the circuit record and that opened the doors for me to be in that group and that category,” commented the man from Reef Infobae.
Again in Europe and after moving as a minor, Álvarez managed to get to the top of the podium in World Series Lightthe minor division of the Word Series which is a prelude to Formula 1. His career has catapulted and he seems to reach the highest category after win nine races this year, seven of them in a row and surpassed Fernando Alonso who achieved five.
At only 18 years old, the Argentine is living a dream, but cwhen the Renault F1 young drivers program came looking for him to give him a scholarship, his manager at the time, Reinaldo Cozzani, said it was not the time..
In this regard, he maintained that the lack of experience and trust in his representative delayed the possibility of the scholarship, something he now regrets. In 2004, he came to the World Series with the Gabord team, the champion of the moment and although he did not achieve good results, it helped him jump to what was known at the time as GP2 (now Formula 2) .
“As a matter of fear, we let ourselves be carried away by a person who was making decisions not based on what is best for my career but rather based on what is best for his project. I also do not deny it because everything I have experienced It allowed me to be who I am today if I had to run again in Europe today knowing how the story ended, I would do it again,” he admitted.
Again the races did not go as expected. However, he shared the weekends with Formula 1 as he explained “every 21 years I have to go to the Ranault factory in Enstone to train and measure my physical parameters with the other F1 drivers who at that time are Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella. Being inside the structure of the highest category enriched him with experiences that lasted a year.
His return to Argentina was in 2007. to compete and win in Top Race and in TC 2000. However, he considers motorsports an environment full of interests, deals and a system that he does not share, which exhausts him and leaves him behind. Álvarez explained: “The only thing is that I have done my whole career as my old man taught me and that is that securities are not sold and are not discussed. So I have been like that and I hold myself so I think it paid me back in the long run.”
That is why at the end of 2018, after an attempt to return to Europe, he left everything and He retired at the age of 32. He was sought by María Eugenia Vidal to be the mayor of Arrecifes, a proposal that he did not accept considering that politics is not his thing, but music and that is what he currently devotes himself to.
As a fan of electronic parties, he became friends with famous artists such as Boris Brejcha, Mariano Mellino and Esteban Bilbaowho encouraged him in the environment and taught him what was required.
His life completely changed during the Coronavirus pandemic when heOn October 21 he was diagnosed with colon cancer. During a check-up, they found the tumor and he spent a year and a half between chemotherapy, rays and other treatments to heal himself. Once cured, he saved from the pain “how it rearranges priorities, how it brings you back to what is important. It brings you down from that cloud that one has every day with the maelstrom of work and you realize how fragile it is.” life because every day you have is a gift”.
Today, dedicated to the company owned by his father and the console in electronic parties, he enjoys his family and wants to be close to young drivers like Franco Colapinto to help them in the sport, so that they don’t make the same mistakes as he did.
Source: Tycsports
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