Salvador Durán

Salvador Durán Sánchez (born 6 May 1985) is a Mexican auto racing driver who raced 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 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.

Born in Mexico City, Durán started his career in 2002 with a second place in the Skip Barber National and winning the Midwestern Champion trophy. In 2003, he finished eighth 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, Durán 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, Durán 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.

Durán 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.

Durán raced 2009 for the Mexican A1GP team the last four races having in the last race a top-three as best result and making Mexico enter the top-ten in the championship, he raced in the 2010 NASCAR Mexico Series for Citizen-DHL team having a pole position and two top-three finishes he ended up out of the top-20 and was excluded in three races.

In December 2014, Amlin Aguri announced that Durán 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.

For the 2015–16 Formula E season, Durán signed with Trulli GP, but after the team's withdrawal from the formula after the first three rounds of the championship (in which they not competed), he rejoined Team Aguri. Following the next three races, at the Paris ePrix, Durán was replaced by Chinese driver Ma Qing Hua, who stayed on the team for the remainder of the season.

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 3 International Series - National P1 Motorsport 22 9 9 300 1st 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team Mexico 16 2 1 59 10th† 2006 British Formula 3 International Series 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 22nd Team Aguri 3 0 0 2018–19 Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy Jaguar VIP Car 1 0 0 0 NC‡ 2020–21 Formula E NIO 333 FE TeamReserve driver † Team standings. ‡ As Durán was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

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 VAN17 MDO10 MTL5 21st 17

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 Mexico GBRSPR6 GBRFEA3 GERSPR GERFEA PORSPRRet PORFEARet AUSSPRRet AUSFEARet MYSSPR MYSFEA UAESPR18 UAEFEA8 RSASPR RSAFEA IDNSPR3 IDNFEARet MEXSPRRet MEXFEARet USASPR1 USAFEA1 CHNSPR3 CHNFEA8 10th 59 2006–07 NEDSPR2 NEDFEA5 CZESPR7 CZEFEA3 BEISPR2 BEIFEARet MYSSPR11 MYSFEARet IDNSPR2 IDNFEA6 NZLSPR12 NZLFEARet AUSSPR11 AUSFEA15 RSASPRRet RSAFEARet MEXSPR17 MEXFEARet SHASPR SHAFEA GBRSPR GBRSPR 10th 35 2007–08 NEDSPR4 NEDFEA4 CZESPR CZEFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA ZHUSPR ZHUFEA NZLSPR NZLFEA AUSSPR AUSFEA RSASPR RSAFEA MEXSPR MEXFEA SHASPR SHAFEA GBRSPR GBRSPR 16th 22 2008–09 NEDSPR NEDFEA CHNSPR CHNFEA MYSSPR MYSFEA NZLSPR15 NZLFEARet RSASPR16 RSAFEARet PORSPR9 PORFEA4 GBRSPR3 GBRSPR6 13th 19

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

24 Hours of Daytona Year Team No Car Co-Drivers Laps Class Pos. ClassPos. 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 44

Complete Formula E results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team Chassis Powertrain 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pos Points 2014–15 Amlin Aguri Spark SRT01-e SRT01-e BEI PUT PDE16 BUEDSQ MIA10 LBHRet MCORet BER16 MSC6 LDN17 LDN8 21st 13 2015–16 Trulli Formula E Team Spark SRT01-e Motomatica JT-01 BEIDNP PUT PDE 22nd 0 Team Aguri Spark SRT01-e SRT01-e BUERet MEX15 LBH14 PAR BER LDN LDN