- Roldán Rodríguez
Infobox racing driver
name = Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias
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nationality = flagicon|Spain Spanish
date of birth = Birth date and age|1984|11|9
place of birth =Valladolid (Spain )
current series =GP2 Series
first year = 2007
current team = FMS International
car number = 18
former teams =Minardi Piquet Sports
starts = 41
wins = 0
poles = 0
fastest laps = 1
best finish = 13th
year = 2008
prev series = Spanish F3 Championship
prev series years = 2003-2006
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award years =Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias (born
November 9 ,1984 inValladolid ) is a Spanish racing driver, who competed in the2007 GP2 Series season for theMinardi Piquet Sports team. Prior to this he competed in SpanishFormula Three and variousFormula 3000 categories.Career
Formula Three
After competing in Formula Junior 1600 Spain in 2002, Rodríguez graduated to the
Spanish Formula Three Championship in 2003 in remained there for the next four seasons, gradually improving to finish as series runner-up in 2006, behindRicardo Risatti .Nissan World Series
In 2004, Rodríguez dovetailed part-time campaigns in F3 and the Nissan World Series, in which he scored two points from nine races.
Minardi links and GP2 Series
Rodríguez tested a
Minardi Formula One car in 2005, which led to him driving for the team's Euroseries 3000 operation in 2006 alongside his Spanish F3 campaign. However, the F1 team's acquisition byRed Bull precluded a step up to the premier division of motor racing. Instead,Giancarlo Minardi 's team-up with HiTech/Piquet Sports in the2007 GP2 Series season led to him securing the second seat in the team, alongside Alexandre Negrão. After initially beginning 2008 without a GP2 drive, he replaced the injuredMichael Herck for the last round of the GP2 Asia Series, then kept his seat with the team for the main GP2 Series, replacingAndy Soucek who had been expected to fill the seat. [cite news| title =FMS International sign Rodriguez| publisher =autosport.com| url =http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66762| date =2008-04-21 | accessdate =2008-04-21] He finished thirteenth in the championship, an improvement upon the previous year.Rodríguez has returned to Piquet Sports to compete in the
2008-09 GP2 Asia Series season and the2009 GP2 Series season . [cite news| title =Rodriguez returns to Piquet for 2009| publisher =crash.net| url =http://www.crash.net/motorsport/gp2/news/169442-0/rodriguez_returns_to_piquet_for_2009.html| date =2008-09-24 | accessdate =2008-09-26]Formula One
Rodríguez was signed by the
Force India Formula One team as a test driver for the winter of F1|2007-F1|2008. [cite news| title =Spyker test role for Rodriguez| publisher =motorsport.com| url =http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=270001&FS=F1| date =2007-09-20 | accessdate =2007-09-20]Racing record
Complete GP2 Series results
() (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in "italics" indicate fastest lap)
Complete GP2 Asia Series results
() (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in "italics" indicate fastest lap)
References
* [http://www.driverdb.com/racingdriver101.html Career statistics] from driverdb.com, retrieved
March 4 2007 .External links
* [http://www.roldanrodriguez.com/ Official website]
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