Roberto González junior

Roberto González junior in the Oreca 07 at the 2019 Silverstone 4-hour race

Roberto González Valdez , also known as Roberto González junior , (born March 31, 1976 in Monterrey ) is a Mexican racing driver . He started in the Champ Car World Series in 2003 and 2004 .

Career

González began his motorsport career in 1990 in kart racing , in which he remained active until 1994. In 1994 he switched to formula racing . He started from 1994 to 1996 in the Mexican Formula 3 Championship , 1997 in the Mexican Formula 2 Championship and from 1998 to 2000 in the Pan-American Indy Lights .

In 2001 González moved to Europe and drove in the one-off Formula Chrysler Euroseries . Together with his younger brother Ricardo , he competed for Alpie Motorsport . He won two races and finished all eight races in the top four. At the end of the season he was defeated by Ricardo van der Ende with 121 to 106 points and was second overall. Against his brother, who finished fourth with 55 points, internally. In 2002 González went to GD Racing in the World Series by Nissan and was 22nd in the drivers' championship.

In 2003 González returned to North America and initially received a cockpit at Dale Coyne Racing for the season opener of the Champ Car World Series . He then lost the cockpit to Alex Yoong . In the further course of the season he represented Roberto Moreno in the Mexican race, the Gran Premio Telmex-Gigante , at Herdez Competition . Together with Mario Domínguez , he formed a purely Mexican driver duo, which promised the team more attention in Mexico. In 2004 González was a full-time pilot at PKV Racing . With a seventh place as the best result, he finished the season in 15th place overall. Internally he was defeated by Jimmy Vasser with 201 to 136 points.

After a long break, González returned to motorsport in 2012. For RSR Racing he took part in three races of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). In addition, he represented his brother Ricardo at Greaves Motorsport in a race of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) 2012 .

Personal

González father Roberto González sr. and his brother Ricardo González are also racing drivers.

statistics

Career stations

1990-1994: Karting 1994: Mexican Formula 3 1995: Mexican Formula 3 1996: Mexican Formula 3 1997: Mexican Formula 2

1998: Pan American Indy Lights (16th place) 1999: Pan American Indy Lights 2000: Pan American Indy Lights 2001: Formula Chrysler Euroseries (2nd place) 2002: World Series by Nissan (22nd place)

2003 : Champ Car World Series (24th place) 2004 : Champ Car World Series (15th place) 2012: ALMS , PC (13th place) 2012 : WEC (85th place)

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2017	CEPC Manor TRS Racing	Oreca 07	Simon Trummer	Vitali Petrov	failure	accident
2018	DragonSpeed	Oreca 07	Pastor Maldonado	Nathanaël Berthon	Rank 9
2019	DragonSpeed	Oreca 07	Pastor Maldonado	Anthony Davidson	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2012	RSR Racing	Oreca FLM09	Bruno Junqueira	Tomy Drissi	Rank 48
2018	AFS / PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports	Ligier JS P217	Sebastián Saavedra	Gustavo Yacamán	Rank 32

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
2012	RSR Racing Greaves Motorsport	Oreca FLM09 Zytek Z11SN	SEB	SPA	LEM	SIL	SAO	BAH	FUJ	SHA
			48				11
2016	Greaves Motorsport Manor	Gibson 015S Oreca 05	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
							10			DNF	15th
2017	Manor	Oreca 07	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			10	14th	DNF	11	12	DNF	13	9	9
2018/19	DragonSpeed	Oreca 07	SPA	LEM	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LEM
			11	DNF	7th	20th	12	6th	7th	DNF

Web links

Commons : Roberto González junior  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Roberto González's career statistics at driverdb.com (English)
• Roberto González's career statistics at speedsport-magazine.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IndyCar »Herdez Announces all-Mexican line-up for Mexico. crash.net, accessed on July 15, 2015 . 
2. ^ Carnival Performance for Greaves Motorsport in Brazil. greavesmotorsport.com, September 16, 2012, accessed July 15, 2015 .