Moisés Solana

Moisés Solana

Nation:	Mexico
Automobile world championship
First start:	1963 Mexican Grand Prix
Last start:	1968 Mexican Grand Prix
Constructors
1963  Scuderia Centro Sud 1964 and 1965 Lotus 1966 Cooper Car Company in 1967 and 1968 Lotus
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 8th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Moisés Solana Arciniega (born December 26, 1935 in Mexico City , † July 27, 1969 in Valle de Bravo ) was a Mexican racing driver .

Career

Solana started his career at national motorsport events in Mexico. In 1962 he tried to qualify for the Mexican Grand Prix for the first time . The first attempt still failed, in 1963 he made it into the race with a BRM P57 from Scuderia Centro Sud in eleventh place in the qualification. He finished the Grand Prix eight laps behind the winner Jim Clark also in eleventh place. He was the first driver in Grand Prix history to start the race with the car with starting number 13.

In his eight starts in world championship races, points were always beyond the reach of the Mexican. In training he was able to show his talent twice. At the US Grand Prix in 1967 , he finished seventh in the factory Lotus 49 . In Mexico he started the race from ninth place on the grid; At both Grand Prix he had to give up due to technical defects.

He rarely competed outside of Mexico. In 1968 he finished seventh on a Lotus 48 at the Formula 2 race in Madrid .

Moises Solana lost his life in an accident in a hill climb in Valle de Bravo in 1969 . He lost control of his McLaren M6B on a bridge , the car went up in flames and Solana died at the scene of the accident.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1963	Scuderia Centro Sud	BRM P57	BRM 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964	Team Lotus	Lotus 33	Climax 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1965	Team Lotus	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T81	Maserati 3.0 V12	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1967	Team Lotus	Lotus 49	Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Gold Leaf Team Lotus	Lotus 49B	Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				8th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12
1963
									11
1964
										10
1965
									12	DNF
1966
									DNF
1967
										DNF	DNF
1968
												DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1954	Dehler	Dodge V-8	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
								32

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Moisés Solana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Moisés Solana at Motorsport Magazine