Salvador Durán

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Durán in Formula Renault 3.5 2008
Salvador Durán in the 2009 A1GP series

Salvador Durán Sánchez (born May 6, 1985 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican racing car driver . He won the Daytona 24-hour race in 2007 . From 2005 to 2009 he started in A1GP . He competed in Formula Renault 3.5 from 2007 to 2010.

Career

Durán began his motorsport career in karting in 2000 , where he was active until 2004. In 2002 he also began to take part in races in formula racing and initially competed in individual Formula Renault Monza races . In 2003 Durán was runner-up in the national Formula Dodge. With 162 to 178 points he was defeated by Raphael Matos . He also took part in races in the Barber Dodge Pro Series , the Fran-Am Formula Renault and the Mexican Ford Mustang Championship.

In 2004 Durán moved to Europe and drove for Cram Competition in both the Italian Formula Renault and the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup . While he finished 18th overall in the Eurocup, he finished eighth in the Italian Formula Renault with three podium finishes. In both championships he was defeated by his teammate Pastor Maldonado , who won the Italian series. In 2005 Durán competed for P1 Motorsport in the national class of the British Formula 3 championship and won the national class with nine championship victories.

In the winter of 2005/06 , Durán started in the A1GP series for the Mexican team and was used on eight out of eleven race weekends. While his teammates only scored a few points, he achieved two wins in Laguna Seca and three third places. Mexico reached eleventh place in the team ranking. He then moved to the British racing team Hitech Racing and contested his second season in the British Formula 3 championship. Durán did not keep up with his teammates James Jakes and James Walker this season and finished tenth overall behind the two at the end of the season. He had more failures than his teammates put together. In the 2006/07 season Durán was again active in the A1GP series and played nine of eleven events for his team. He achieved four podium placements. As in the previous year, Mexico came in tenth overall.

At the beginning of 2007, won Durán, along with Juan Pablo Montoya and Scott Pruett , the 24 Hours of Daytona for Chip Ganassi Racing . In the further course of the season, Durán completed another race in the Rolex Sports Car Series . In formula racing , he received a cockpit for the Formula Renault 3.5 at Interwetten.com in 2007 . In the second race in Monza , he achieved his first victory. With another three podium finishes, he finished eighth in the championship at the end of the season. With 64 to 0 points, he clearly prevailed internally against his teammate Daniil Mowe . In the 2007/08 A1GP season , Durán only started one race weekend and still scored more points than his teammates who competed the rest of the season. In 2008 he stayed with Interwetten.com and contested his second Formula Renault 3.5 season. His new teammate was his compatriot Pablo Sánchez López . Durán won another race and finished the season in ninth place in the overall standings. With 61 to 18 points he prevailed internally against Sánchez López. He also drove for Chip Ganassi Racing again in a race in the Rolex Sports Car Series.

In the winter of 2008/09 , Durán again took part in three of the seven A1GP events. He managed a third place and he was the only Mexican who had scored points. Durán had achieved 126 out of 135 points in the A1GP for Mexico in the four years in which the team was active and achieved all podiums, pole positions and fastest laps of the team. In the further course of 2009 Durán was without a fixed cockpit. He returned to Formula Renault 3.5 for Interwetten.com for the last two race weekends. He remained without points. In 2010 Durán switched to the NASCAR Corona Series and achieved 23rd place overall with two podium finishes. In addition, he again took part in the final Formula Renault 3.5 race weekend for Interwetten.com . He was eliminated in both races.

After a year-long hiatus, Durán returned to the Mexican NASCAR series, now called the NASCAR Toyota Series , in 2012 . In the overall standings, he finished 15th. After another year off, Durán made his comeback in formula racing for Amlin Aguri in the FIA Formula E Championship at the end of 2014 and entered the series for the third race. He finished the season in 21st place overall. For the 2015/16 FIA Formula E Championship , Durán switched to the Trulli Formula E Team , but left the team before the second race . For the fourth race in Buenos Aires he returned to Aguri and drove three races for the team before he was replaced by Ma Qinghua .

statistics

Career stations

  • 2008: Rolex Sports Car Series, DP (60th place)
  • 2009 : A1GP
  • 2009 : Formula Renault 3.5 (35th place)
  • 2010: NASCAR Corona Series (23rd place)
  • 2010 : Formula Renault 3.5
  • 2012: NASCAR Toyota Series (15th place)
  • 2015 : Formula E (21st place)
  • 2016 : Formula E (22nd place)

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 Points rank
2014/15 Amlin Aguri China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China AT MalaysiaMalaysia PUT UruguayUruguay PUN ArgentinaArgentina BUE United StatesUnited States MIA United StatesUnited States LBH MonacoMonaco MON GermanyGermany BER RussiaRussia MOS United KingdomUnited Kingdom LON 13 21st
    16 ° DSQ 10 ° DNF DNF ° 17th 6th 17th 8th
2015/16 Trulli Formula E Team China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China AT MalaysiaMalaysia PUT UruguayUruguay PUN ArgentinaArgentina BUE MexicoMexico MEX United StatesUnited States LBH FranceFrance PAR GermanyGermany BER United KingdomUnited Kingdom LON   0 22nd
DNP                    
Team Aguri   DNF 15 ° 14th

( Legend )

Web links

Commons : Salvador Durán  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. "Comeback: Interwetten again with Duran" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 17, 2009)
  2. ^ “Salvador Duran gets Aguri Formula E chance in Punta del Este”. autosport.com, December 9, 2014, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  3. Gerald Dirnbeck: Career ended: Jarno Trulli hangs up his helmet. Motorsport-Total.com, August 24, 2015, accessed August 25, 2015 .
  4. ^ Salvador Duran leaves Trulli Team. (No longer available online.) FormulaSpy.com, November 5, 2015, archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 5, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / formulaspy.com
  5. Norman Fischer: From the bench to the cockpit: Duran back with Aguri. January 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2016 .