Juan Cáceres (racing driver)

For other people named Juan Cáceres, see Juan Cáceres (disambiguation).
Juan Cáceres
NationalityUruguay Uruguayan
BornJuan Ignacio Cáceres Stuart
(1984-05-01) 1 May 1984 (age 40)
Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay
TC2000 Championship career
Debut season2007
Starts20
Championships0
Wins0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish8th in 2008
Previous series
2010
2005-2006
2006
2004
2003
2003
2001
2001-2002		Top Race
Euroseries 3000
Champ Car World Series
Spanish F3 Championship
Zip Formula Great Britain
Formula BMW Junior Cup Iberia
Formula Renault 2.0 Italia
Formula Super Renault Argentina
Championship titles
2003Formula BMW Junior Cup Iberia

Juan Ignacio "Fufi" Cáceres Stuart (born 1 May 1984)[1] is a Uruguayan former racing driver from Punta del Este.

He had a Formula One test with Minardi in 2005 and one-race appearance in Champ Car World Series with Dale Coyne Racing. Cáceres later raced in the TC2000 touring car series in Argentina.

Racing career

Cáceres started his career in go-karting in 1995, competing in the Cadetes division of the Uruguayan Karting Championship. In 1996, he won the Copa Mercosur and Campeonato de Verano titles, and finished third in the Uruguayan Karting Championship. The following year, he moved to the 125 cc Pre-Junior category, finishing fifth in 1997 and fourth in 1998.[2] The same year, he enrolled at José Valentin Bianchi's RAC driver academy, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[3] Cáceres remained in Argentina in 1999, competing in the Fórmula Honda, but did not win a single race.[4]

Move to Europe and North America

In 2000, he competed in the United States-based Skip Barber Formula Dodge Midwestern Regional Championship, where he won one race at Road America.[5] Cáceres began racing in Europe in 2001. He participated in Italian Formula Renault for ADM Junior Team and in the Argentine Formula Super Renault, without much success.[6] He competed in Argentina for a second season in 2002.

In 2003, Cáceres won the Formula BMW Junior Cup, with four wins in six races.[7] He also took part in the British Zip Formula championship. In the same year, Cáceres drove a Benetton B201 at a test session at the Circuit de Catalunya, his first experience driving a Formula One car.[7] He was signed by Giancarlo Minardi to be part of his driver academy.[8]

The 2004 season saw Cáceres progress to the higher-tier Spanish Formula Three. Driving a Dallara F300-Toyota car, he finished 14th in the Drivers' Championship with 10 points. His best result was a sixth-place finish at Estoril.[9]

Going into 2005, Cáceres moved to the Italian Formula 3000 Championship driving a Lola B99/50 chassis for GP Racing. He took one podium, a third-place finish at Brno, for fifth position in the championship, scoring 20 points. Giancarlo Minardi stated that the Uruguayan driver had a lot of potential and his F3000 performances were "very good."[10]

Formula One testing

Cáceres tested for Minardi in a PS05 car at Vallelunga in November 2005. He drove a total 32 laps with the, topping the table with a lap time of 1:21.019.[11]

For 2006, Cáceres remained in the Italian Formula 3000, now renamed Euroseries 3000. He took two second-place finishes at Spa and Silverstone for 7th in the Drivers' Championship. In September 2006, he tested for Dale Coyne Racing at Sebring.[12] He took part in a single round of the 2006 Champ Car season, replacing Mario Domínguez in the Grand Prix of Road America, where he qualified and finished last.[13][14]

Complete Champ Car results

(key)

Year Team No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rank Points Ref
2006 Dale Coyne Racing 19 LBH HOU MTY MIL POR CLE TOR EDM SJO DEN MTL ROA
15 		SRF MXC 25th 6 [15]

References

  1. ^ "Juan Caceres • Career & Character Info | Motorsport Database". Motorsport Database - Motor Sport Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
  2. ^ "Alain Menu y Juan I Cáceres son los invitados de Chevrolet Elaion". RECTA PRINCIPAL. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  3. ^ "Juan Ignacio Cáceres, piloto uruguayo de 15 anos, probará en Estados Unidos". LARED21 (in Spanish). 2000-02-04. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
  4. ^ Galella, Facundo. "Fórmula Honda: Ganadores (1994-2000) | Informulas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-10-01.
  5. ^ "SBRS: Eight winners this week 2000-07-05". us.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
  6. ^ "Juan Ignacio Cáceres | Racing career profile | Driver Database". www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  7. ^ a b "Juan Ignacio Cáceres: en camino a la Fórmula 1 Deportes Notas Actualidad Punta del Este La Barra José Ignacio Punta Ballena". www.puntaweb.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  8. ^ Tabeira, Martín (2003-07-18). "Juan Ignacio Caceres: con la mira en la Formula 1". Noticias de Punta del Este. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  9. ^ "Race result: Spanish Formula 3 Championship, Race 7 of season 2004 in Estoril". www.speedsport-magazine.com. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  10. ^ "Fufy Cáceres, invitado a probar un Minardi de Fórmula Uno". LARED21 (in Spanish). 2005-10-11. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  11. ^ Salisbury, Matt (2005-11-23). "Legge impresses in Italy". Crash.net. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  12. ^ "CHAMPCAR/CART: Juan Caceres joins Dale Coyne Racing". us.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  13. ^ Malsher-Lopez, David (2006-09-20). "Uruguayan confirmed at Coyne". www.autosport.com. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  14. ^ pcarroll. "Race Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  15. ^ "Juan Cáceres – 2006 Champ Car World Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 15, 2023.


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