Salvador Durán

Infobox racing driver
name = Salvador Durán Sánchez


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nationality = flagicon|Mexico Mexican
date of birth = Birth date and age|1985|05|06
place of birth = Mexico City
current series = World Series by Renault
first year = 2007
current team = Interwetten
car number = 1
former teams =
starts = 5
wins = 1
poles = 0
fastest laps = 0
best finish =
year =
prev series = Italian Formula Renault
Formula Renault Eurocup
British F3 Championship
A1 Grand Prix
prev series years = 2003
2003
2004-2006
2005-06-2007-08
titles = British F3 Scholarship Class
title years = 2005
awards =
award years =

Salvador Durán Sánchez (born 6 May 1985 in Mexico City) is a Mexican race car driver currently racing in the World Series by Renault championship with the Interwetten.com team.

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 with 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.

Career results

*(1) = Team standings.

External links

* [http://www.fota.co.uk/driverbio.php?countkey=9 British F3 Profile of Salvador Durán]