Tomás Saldaña

The Ferrari 348 GTC-LM driven by Tomas Saldaña, Andres Vilariño and Alfonso de Orleans-Borbón at the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

Tomás Saldaña Ruiz de Velasco (born March 23, 1961 in Bilbao ) is a former Spanish racing car driver .

Racing career

Tomás Saldaña was active as a sports car driver in the 1990s and 2000s . In addition to starting the Interseries in 1991 , he made his first international appearance in the 430 km race in Mexico , a race in the 1991 World Sports Car Championship . With partner François Migault he reached the station - Cougar C26S tenth place in the overall standings. After a few years of racing in the Interseries , Saldaña switched to GT racing and only drove in the BPR Global GT Series and from 1997 in the FIA GT Championship . In the last years of his driving career, which ended with the end of the 2006 season, he was involved in the Spanish GT Championship .

Tomás Saldaña achieved four overall and four class wins in 78 races between 1991 and 2006. He competed seven times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans . The best place in the final ranking was eleventh overall in 1994 .

After the end of his driving career, he worked for Eurosport Spain as a motorsport commentator.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1992	Courage Compétition	Cougar C28LM	Denis Morin	Jean-François Yvon	failure	Engine failure
1993	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962CK6	François Migault	Andy Evans	Rank 13
1994	Repsol Ferrari España	Ferrari 348 GTC-LM	Alfonso de Orléans-Borbon	Andres Vilariño	Rank 11
1995	Heico Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2	Alfonso de Orléans-Borbon	Miguel Ángel de Castro	failure	accident
1997	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Jürgen Lässig	Carl Rosenblad	failure	Engine failure
1999	Kremer Racing	Lola B98 / 10	Didier de Radiguès	Grant Orbell	failure	Gearbox damage
2000	Repsol Racing Engineering	Porsche 996 GT3 R.	Giovanni Lavaggi	Jesús Diez de Villarroel	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1991	Courage Compétition	Cougar C26	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
									10
1992	Courage Compétition	Cougar C28	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
					DNF

Web links

Commons : Tomás Saldaña  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Tomás Saldaña at Racing Sports Cars
• Tomás Saldaña at Motorsport Magazine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 430km Mexico Race 1991