Salvador Durán
Salvador Durán Sánchez is a Mexican race car 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
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 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, Salvador 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
† Team standings.Barber Dodge Pro Series
| 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
| 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 | A1 Team Mexico | 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 | A1 Team Mexico | 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 | A1 Team Mexico | 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 |
Complete Formula E results
| 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 | PDE
16 | BUE
DSQ | MIA
10 | LBH
Ret | MCO
Ret | BER
16 | MSC
6 | LON
17 | LON
8 | 21st | 13 |
| 2015–16 | Trulli Formula E Team | Spark SRT01-e | Motomatica JT-01 | BEI
DNP | PUT | PDE | | | | | | | | | 22nd | 0 |
| 2015–16 | Team Aguri | Spark SRT01-e | SRT01-e | | | | BUE
Ret | MEX
15 | LBH
14 | PAR
| BER
| LON
| LON
| | 22nd | 0 |
