Jorge Goeters

Jorge Goeters
Born	(1970-06-26) June 26, 1970 Mexico City, Mexico
Awards	2002 MasterCard Truck Series champion 2005 Desafío Corona champion 2012 NASCAR Toyota Series champion
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
First race	2005 Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
10 races run over 3 years
First race	2005 Telcel Motorola 200 (Mexico City)
Last race	2007 Zippo 200 at the Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 1
Statistics current as of January 11, 2009.

Jorge Goeters (born June 26, 1970) is a Mexican racecar driver.

At the present time, Goeters competes full-time in the NASCAR Mexico Series in Mexico. In the past few years he also competed at the international level on a limited basis, running a handful of races in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, NASCAR Busch Series, NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series, Indy Lights, Champ Car World Series, A1 Grand Prix, and Rolex Sports Car Series. He is known for winning the pole position for the inaugural Busch Series race in Mexico City.

Early career

Goeters had an early start in motorsports, beginning in motocross at age 8. He won several championships in Mexico, as well as international events in this discipline, before making the move to auto racing in 1993.

In 1996, he won his first national championship, in the Prototypes category. The next year he won the Mexican Trans-Am series, and in 1998 he went to compete in the United States.

In 1998, he had a fairly successful debut season in the Indy Lights championship, in which he earned one Pole position, one track record, two top five, and two top ten finishes.

Back in his homeland, he competed in the Mexican Formula 2 Championship in 2001, and the MasterCard Truck Series Championship in 2002.

In 2004 he took part in the inaugural season of the Desafío Corona stock car series, and finished 4th in the championship.

Career in NASCAR and other international series

In 2004, he entered a NASCAR West Series event at Irwindale Event Center but failed to qualify. In his return to the West Series in 2005, now at Auto Club Speedway, Goeters made the race and finished 10th.

2005 was a very eventful year for Goeters, as he won the championship in the Desafío Corona series, and made his NASCAR and Grand-Am debut, as well as his lone start in the Champ Car World Series.

Goeters won a very popular pole position in his NASCAR Busch Series debut at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, driving the No. 66 Canel's/Scotiabank Ford Taurus for Brewco Motorsports. He led 24 laps, but later had to retire from the race with an engine failure. He ran two more Busch Series races in 2005, driving the No. 32 Chevy for Braun Racing, with a best result of 9th at Watkins Glen International.

He contested a Champ Car race in Monterrey, Mexico for PKV Racing, but had to retire with mechanical problems on Lap 24.

He made his lone NASCAR Nextel Cup Series start at Watkins Glen, driving the No. 50 Dodge for Arnold Motorsports. He led some laps during the race, but eventually finished 35th as a result of small contact in the closing laps.

In 2005, he also competed in the Rolex Sports Car Series event at Watkins Glen.

After his success in the 2005 season, Goeters looked to continue his career in the United States, and in 2006 the announcement was made that he would drive for a new team in the Busch Series, Latin American Racing; however, the team never became a reality. Still, Goeters took part in a handful of races in the Busch Series. He returned to run the Mexico City race with Brewco, finishing 14th, and then joined Jay Robinson Racing to drive the No. 49 Ford. He finished 41st at Bristol and 24th at Nashville, but failed to qualify at Las Vegas, Atlanta, Texas, Phoenix and Richmond in the team's underpowered car. Goeters left the team, and then made another start in the season finale at Homestead, driving the No. 63 car for Spraker Racing Enterprises, but retired with mechanical problems.

Also in 2006, he made a start in ARCA Re/Max Series at Chicagoland Speedway driving No. 24 Ford for Bob Schacht Motorsports. Goeters started 19th and finished 7th after led 4 laps.

In 2007, Goeters competed in the NASCAR Busch Series as a road course ringer. He ran at Mexico City, Watkins Glen, and Montreal, with strong qualifying performances in the three races. However, his only good finish came at home as he finished 7th at Mexico City. He also competed in the Rolex Sports Car Series race at Mexico City, and in the opening event of the A1 Grand Prix series for Team Mexico. He also drove full-time in the NASCAR Corona Series, in which he won a race at Guadalajara and finished 6th in the championship.

In 2008, he returned to run full-time in Mexico, and finished 6th in the NASCAR Corona Series, driving the No. 4 car.

During the 97th lap of a 100-lap Corona Series race at Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Amozoc, Puebla, on June 14, 2009, Goeters made contact with Carlos Pardo, which caused the latter to lose control of his car and impact against a barrier sideways at over 200 km/h causing the disintegration of the car and Pardo's death. As the race was over the time limit, the standings of the previous lap were taken into account and Pardo was posthumously declared winner.

In 2012 he was the champion of NASCAR Toyota Series.

Personal life

Goeters is part of a racing family that also includes his brothers Patrick and Eduardo, who have also competed successfully in several categories in Mexico, including the NASCAR Corona Series.

Motorsports career results

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	Pos.
1998	Indy Lights	Quaker State Team Go	12	0	1	0	34	16th
2005	Champ Car	PKV Racing	1	0	0	0	3	29th
2007-08	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	2	0	0	0	0	16th (1)

• (1) = Team standings.

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Nextel Cup Series

NASCAR Nextel Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	NNCC	Pts
2005	Arnold Motorsports	50	Dodge	DAY	CAL	LVS	ATL	BRI	MAR	TEX	PHO	TAL	DAR	RCH	CLT	DOV	POC	MCH	SON	DAY	CHI	NHA	POC	IND	GLN 35	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	NHA	DOV	TAL	KAN	CLT	MAR	ATL	TEX	PHO	HOM	82nd	63

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NBSC	Pts
2005	Brewco Motorsports	66	Ford	DAY	CAL	MXC 38	LVS	ATL	NSH	BRI	TEX	PHO	TAL	DAR	RCH	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA																82nd	283
	Braun Racing	32	Chevy																					PPR 24	GTY	IRP	GLN 9	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV
	Red Cactus Racing	73	Chevy																														KAN DNQ	CLT	MEM	TEX DNQ	PHO	HOM
2006	Brewco Motorsports	66	Ford	DAY	CAL	MXC 14																																	82nd	295
	Jay Robinson Racing	49	Ford				LVS DNQ	ATL DNQ	BRI 41	TEX DNQ	NSH 24	PHO DNQ	TAL
		28												RCH DNQ	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	DAY	CHI	NHA	MAR	GTY	IRP	GLN	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM
	Spraker Racing Enterprises	63	Chevy																																	TEX DNQ	PHO	HOM 40
2007	Brewco Motorsports	27	Ford	DAY	CAL	MXC 7	LVS	ATL	BRI	NSH	TEX	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	CGV 31	GLN 29	MCH	BRI	CAL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CLT	MEM	TEX	PHO	HOM	90th	297

West Series

NASCAR West Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	NWSC	Pts	Ref
2004	Info not available			PHO	MMR	CAL	S99	EVG	IRW	S99	RMR	DCS	PHO	CNS	MMR	IRW DNQ	N/A	-
2005	Performance P-1 Motorsports	77	Ford	PHO	MMR	PHO	S99	IRW	EVG	S99	PPR	CAL 10	DCS	CTS	MMR		42nd	134

External links

• Jorge Goeters driver statistics at Racing-Reference