Gustavo Yacamán

Gustavo Yacamán (2014)

Gustavo Yacamán Aristizabal (born February 25, 1991 in Santiago de Cali ) is a Colombian racing car driver . He drove in the Indy Lights from 2009 to 2012 .

Career

Gustavo Yacamán in Indy Lights 2009

Yacamán began his motorsport career in karting in 2002 , where he was active until 2005. In 2006 he moved into the single-seater racing and was in Europe fourth in the Master Junior Formula . He also made his debut in the Spanish Formula 3 championship , in which he finished 16th overall. In 2007 Yacamán contested the entire season in Spanish Formula 3. He won a race and finished the season in eighth place overall. In 2008 he took part in the Spanish Formula 3 championship for various teams and once again won one race. In the overall standings, he was ninth.

In 2009 Yacamán left Europe and switched to the North American Indy Lights . For Sam Schmidt Motorsports , fourth place was his best result. At the end of the season he finished twelfth overall. In 2010 he played his second season in the Indy Lights for the new team Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing . With a third place as the best result, he finished the season in tenth place overall. In 2011 , Yacamán moved to Team Moore Racing within Indy Lights . He won his first Indy Lights race that year and improved to fourth place in the drivers' championship. He also completed his first test drive in the IndyCar Series for Andretti Autosport . In 2012 Yacamán completed another season in the Indy Lights for the Moore Racing team. He won two races and was on the podium five times. He finished the season in third place overall. In addition, Yacamán took part in endurance racing in the Daytona 24-hour race and finished third with Jorge Goncalvez , Michael McDowell and Felipe Nasr .

Others

Yacamán's nickname is Tigrillo , which means tiger in Spanish.

statistics

Career stations

2002-2005: karting 2006: Master Junior Formula (4th place) 2006: Spanish Formula 3 (16th place) 2007: Spanish Formula 3 (8th place)

2008: Spanish Formula 3 (9th place) 2009: Indy Lights (12th place) 2010 : Indy Lights (10th place) 2011 : Indy Lights (4th place)

2012 : Indy Lights (3rd place) 2012: Rolex Sports Car Series , DP (28th place)

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2015	G-Drive Racing	Ligier JS P2	Ricardo González	Luís Felipe Derani	Rank 12

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2014	OAK Racing	Morgan LMP2	Olivier Pla	Alex Brundle		Rank 4
2017	BAR1 Motorsports	Oreca FLM09	Marc Drumwright	Chapman Ducote	Colin Thompson	Rank 15
2018	AFS / PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports	Ligier JS P217	Sebastián Saavedra	Roberto González		Rank 32

Web links

• Official website of Gustavo Yacamán
• Career statistics of Gustavo Yacamán (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Yacaman joins Team Moore for 2011”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (indycar.com on December 1, 2010)  
2. ↑ "IndyCar - Davison is allowed to test for Andretti" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on November 8, 2011)
3. ↑ “Yacaman back for another shot at title” ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (indycar.com on March 6, 2012)  
4. ↑ “Gustavo Yacaman” ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (indycar.com; accessed September 11, 2010)