Salvador Durán

Salvador Durán Sánchez
Durán competing for A1 Team Mexico at the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa.
Nationality	Mexican
Born	(1985-05-06) May 6, 1985 Mexico City (Mexico)
2013 Formula Renault 3.5 Series
Debut season	2007
Current team	Interwetten.com
Car no.	16
Starts	35
Wins	2
Poles	1
Fastest laps	3
Best finish	9th in 2007, 2008
Previous series
2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2005–06 2005–06–2008–09 2007–08	Barber Dodge Pro Series FR2.0 Fran-Am Formula Dodge Italian Formula Renault Formula Renault Eurocup British F3 Championship A1 Grand Prix Rolex Sports Car Series
Championship titles
2005	British F3 S'ship Class

Salvador Durán Sánchez (born 6 May 1985 in Mexico City) is a Mexican race car driver currently racing in the NACAR Corona Series and formerly Formula Renault 3.5 Series championship with the Interwetten.com team.

Durán driving for Interwetten.com at the Donington Park round of the 2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.

Durán driving for Interwetten.com at the Silverstone round of the 2008 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.

Salvador started his career in 2002 with a 2nd place in the Skip Barber National and winning the Midwestern Champion trophy. In 2003 he finished 8th in Italian Formula Renault and 15th in the Formula Renault Eurocup. In 2004 and 2005, he drove in the British F3 International Series National Class with P1 Motorsport, becoming class winner in 2005.

On the back of this success, he signed up for the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season, contesting some of the race weekends for Team Mexico, winning both races of the USA round at Laguna Seca.

For the 2006 British F3 International Series, Salvador moved up to the Championship Class, with Hitech Racing, finishing tenth in the championship, scoring 54 points, with his best result a fourth place at Silverstone.

He then went on to commit to the second season of A1 Grand Prix. He also was a member of the winning team for Chip Ganassi Racing in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona, along with teammates Juan Pablo Montoya and Scott Pruett.

He raced 2009 for the Mexican A1GP team the last 4 races having in the last race a top 3 as best result and making Mexico enter the top 10 in the championship, he raced in the 2010 NASCAR Mexico Series for Citizen-DHL team having a pole position and two top 3 finishes he ended up out of the top 20 because of his excessive aggressive driving and being excluded out of 3 races.

Career results

Season	Series	Team	Races	wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	Pos.
2007-08	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	2	0	0	1	17	16th (1)
2006-07	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	18	0	0	1	35	10th (1)
2005-06	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	16	2	1	0	55	10th (1)

• (1) = Team standings.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
2007	Interwetten.com	MNZ 1 9	MNZ 2 1	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 26	MON 1 3	HUN 1 16	HUN 2 Ret	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 3	DON 1 17	DON 2 8	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 22	EST 1 19	EST 2 17	CAT 1 2	CAT 2 7	8th	64
2008	Interwetten.com	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 14	SPA 1 2	SPA 2 4	MON 1 16	SIL 1 1	SIL 2 3	HUN 1 Ret	HUN 2 16	NÜR 1 4	NÜR 2 DSQ	BUG 1 7	BUG 2 7	EST 1 16	EST 2 22	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 12	9th	61
2009	Interwetten.com	CAT 1	CAT 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	MON 1	HUN 1	HUN 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	BUG 1	BUG 2	ALG 1	ALG 2	NÜR 1 DNS	NÜR 2 16	ALC 1 16	ALC 2 Ret	35th	0
2010	FHV Interwetten.com	ALC 1	ALC 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	MON 1	BRN 1	BRN 2	MAG 1	MAG 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	SIL 1	SIL 2	CAT 1 NC	CAT 2 Ret	NC	0

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2005–06	A1 Team Mexico	GBR SPR 6	GBR FEA 3	GER SPR	GER FEA	POR SPR Ret	POR FEA Ret	AUS SPR Ret	AUS FEA Ret	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	UAE SPR 18	UAE FEA 8	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	IDN SPR 3	IDN FEA Ret	MEX SPR Ret	MEX FEA Ret	USA SPR 1	USA FEA 1	CHN SPR 3	CHN FEA 8	10th	59
2006–07		NED SPR 2	NED FEA 5	CZE SPR 7	CZE FEA 3	BEI SPR 2	BEI FEA Ret	MYS SPR 11	MYS FEA Ret	IDN SPR 2	IDN FEA 6	NZL SPR 12	NZL FEA Ret	AUS SPR 11	AUS FEA 15	RSA SPR Ret	RSA FEA Ret	MEX SPR 17	MEX FEA Ret	SHA SPR	SHA FEA	GBR SPR	GBR SPR	10th	35
2007–08		NED SPR 4	NED FEA 4	CZE SPR	CZE FEA	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	ZHU SPR	ZHU FEA	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	MEX SPR	MEX FEA	SHA SPR	SHA FEA	GBR SPR	GBR SPR			16th	22
2008–09		NED SPR	NED FEA	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	NZL SPR 15	NZL FEA Ret	RSA SPR 16	RSA FEA Ret	POR SPR 9	POR FEA 4	GBR SPR 3	GBR SPR 6									13th	19

External links

• British F3 Profile of Salvador Durán