Ernesto Soto

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Ernesto Soto (* 1943 ; † 1995 ) was a Venezuelan racing car driver .

Career

The Venezuela-born Ernesto Soto should not be confused with the Argentinian rally driver of the same name, born in 1954, who died in 2007. Soto began motorsport in Venezuela in the 1960s on a DKW and later switched to the Ford , Vau , Atlantic and 2 monoposto formulas .

In the United States, it became known in 1978. The 24 Hours of Daytona this year he had originally eleventh overall finished as while a Porsche 911 won the GTU class. After the race, the vehicle owner refused the technical control, which led to immediate disqualification. The background was an illegal engine that was too large. In the 1980s, he regularly competed in the IMSA GTP series . His best overall ranking was fifth in the 1982 Daytona 24-hour race . Once, in 1980 , he was registered for the 24-hour race at Le Mans and finished this event in 21st place in the final classification.

He died in a car accident in 1995.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1980 United StatesUnited States Z & W Enterprises Inc. Mazda RX-7 United StatesUnited States Mark Hutchins United StatesUnited States Pierre Honegger Rank 21

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1978 United StatesUnited States Bill Scott Racing Porsche 911 Venezuela 1954Venezuela Francisco Romero Rank 6 and class win
1979 Venezuela 1954Venezuela Hector Huerta Porsche Carrera RSR Venezuela 1954Venezuela Francisco Romero Rank 15
1980 MonacoMonaco Porsche Montecarlo Porsche Carrera RSR Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Luis Méndez Dominican RepublicDominican Republic Jaime Rodríguez failure malfunction
1982 United StatesUnited States T&R Racing Porsche Carrera RSR United StatesUnited States Tico Almeida United StatesUnited States Rene Rodríguez Rank 10
1983 United StatesUnited States T&R Racing Porsche 935M16 United StatesUnited States Tico Almeida failure accident

literature

  • Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .
  • Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .
  • JA Martin and Ken Welles: Prototypes - the History of the IMSA GTP Series . Bull Publishing, Phoenix 2000, ISBN 1-893618-01-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1982 Daytona 24-hour race
personal data
SURNAME Soto, Ernesto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
DATE OF DEATH 1995