Memo Rojas

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Memo Rojas at the 4-hour race of Silverstone 2019 of the European Le Mans Series
Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas' Riley Mark XXVI at the 2012 Road America Grand-Am race
Memo Rojas in Deltawing 2015

Guillermo "Memo" Rojas (born August 18, 1981 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Memo Rojas was born as the son of Mexican racing driver Guillermo Rojas . After early years in karting he went from 1996 in monoposto -Nachwuchsserien at the start. Via Formula Reynard México he got into Mexican Formula 2 and in 1997 the Formula 3 championship in his home country. In 1997 he was second overall and third overall in 1998. He came to the United States in 1999 and drove for several years in the Barber Dodge Pro Series . In 2003 he was overall runner- up behind Leonardo Maia .

After an unsuccessful year in the 2004 Formula Renault V6 Eurocup , he turned to sports car racing and became one of the most successful drivers in North America in the following decade. In 2008 , 2010 , 2011 and 2012 he and his partner Scott Pruett won the overall ranking of the Grand-Am Sports Car Series for Chip Ganassi Racing . Three times, in 2008 , 2,011 in 2013 , he won the 24 Hours of Daytona and 2014 at the 12-hour race at Sebring .

He has been active in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the European Le Mans Series since 2017 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2016 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Greaves Motorsport Ligier JS P2 FranceFrance Julien Canal FranceFrance Nathanaël Berthon Rank 10
2017 RussiaRussia G-Drive Racing Oreca 07 JapanJapan Ryō Hirakawa MexicoMexico José Gutiérrez Rank 39
2018 FranceFrance IDEC Sport Ligier JS P217 FranceFrance Paul Lafargue FranceFrance Paul-Loup Chatin failure malfunction
2019 FranceFrance IDEC Sport Ligier JS P217 FranceFrance Paul Lafargue FranceFrance Paul-Loup Chatin Rank 10

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2014 United StatesUnited States Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Riley MkXXVI United StatesUnited States Scott Pruett United KingdomUnited Kingdom Marino Franchitti Overall victory
2015 United StatesUnited States Claro TracFone DeltaWing Racing DeltaWing DWC13 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Andrew Meyrick United KingdomUnited Kingdom Katherine Legge Rank 31st

Web links

Commons : Memo Rojas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mexican Formula 3 Championship 1997
  2. ↑ Mexican Formula 3 Championship 1998
personal data
SURNAME Rojas, memo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rojas, Guillermo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city