Salvador Durán

Salvador Durán Sánchez
200px 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
FIA Formula E career
Debut season	2014–15
Current team	Trulli GP
Car no.	77
Former teams	Amlin Aguri
Starts	9
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	21st in 2014–15
Previous series
2002 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2005–06 2005–06–2008–09 2007–08 2007–10 2010, 2012	Formula Renault Monza Barber Dodge Pro Series FR2.0 Fran-Am Formula Dodge Italian Formula Renault Formula Renault Eurocup British Formula Three A1 Grand Prix Rolex Sports Car Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series NASCAR Corona Series
Championship titles
2005	British F3 Scholarship Class

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Durán and the second or maternal family name is Sánchez.

Salvador Durán Sánchez (born 6 May 1985) is a Mexican race car driver who currently races in the FIA Formula E Championship for the Amlin Aguri team. Durán has also previously competed in A1 Grand Prix, Formula Renault 3.5, and the NASCAR Toyota Series.

Career

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

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

Born in Mexico City, Durán 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 and was excluded in 3 races.

In December 2014 Amlin Aguri announced that Duran would drive for them in the 2014 Punta del Este ePrix in Uruguay, the third round of the 2014 Formula E season. He replaced Katherine Legge who was testing at Daytona.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Wins	Poles	Points	Position
2002	Formula Renault Monza	Fast Wheels Competition	?	?	?	2	25th
2003	Ford Mustang Championship Mexico	Telmex	?	?	?	0	NC
	Formula Dodge National Championship	Skip Barber Racing School	13	2	5	162	2nd
	Barber Dodge Pro Series		3	0	0	17	21st
	North American Fran Am 2000	GTI Formula Motorsports	?	?	?	18	30th
2004	Formula Renault 2000 Italia	Cram Competition	17	0	0	115	8th
	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup		15	0	0	20	18th
2005	British Formula Three – Scholarship Class	P1 Motorsport	22	9	9	300	1st
2005–06	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	16	2	1	59	10th†
2006	British Formula Three	Hitech Racing	19	0	0	54	10th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	N/A	23rd
2006–07	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	18	0	0	35	10th†
2007	Rolex Sports Car Series – DP	Chip Ganassi Racing	2	1	0	57	45th
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Interwetten.com	17	1	1	64	9th
2007–08	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	2	0	0	22	16th†
2008	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Interwetten.com	15	1	0	61	9th
	Rolex Sports Car Series – DP	Chip Ganassi Racing	1	0	0	13	60th
2008–09	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team Mexico	8	0	0	8	13th†
2009	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Interwetten.com Racing	2	0	0	0	35th
2010	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	FHV Interwetten.com	2	0	0	0	NC
	NASCAR Corona Series	HO Speed Racing	13	0	1	1400	23rd
2012	NASCAR Toyota Series	Equipo Telcel	14	0	0	410	15th
2014–15	Formula E	Amlin Aguri	9	0	0	13	21st
2015–16	Formula E	Trulli GP	1	0	0	0	NC*

^* Season still in progress.
^† Team standings.

American Open-Wheel racing results

(key)

Barber Dodge Pro Series

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
2003	STP	MTY	MIL	LAG	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN 17	MDO 10	MTL 5	21st	17

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

24 Hours of Daytona

Year	Team	No	Car	Co-Drivers	Laps	Class	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	Telmex Chip Ganassi Racing	01	Riley MkXI-Lexus	Juan Pablo Montoya Scott Pruett	668	DP	1	1
2008	Chip Ganassi Racing	02	Riley MkXI-Lexus	Dan Wheldon Scott Dixon Alex Lloyd	515	DP	17 DNF	44 DNF

Complete Formula E results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Points
2014–15	Amlin Aguri	Spark-Renault SRT 01E	BEI	PUT	PDE 16	BNA DSQ	MIA 10	LBH Ret	MON Ret	BER 16	MOS 6	LON 17	LON 8	21st	13
2015–16	Trulli GP	Spark-Motomatica	BEI DNP	PUT	PDE	BNA	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER	MOS	LON	LON	NC*	0*

^* Season still in progress.

External links

• Salvador Durán on Twitter
• Salvador Durán career summary at DriverDB.com
• British F3 Profile of Salvador Durán