Roldán Rodríguez

Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias
Nationality	Spanish
Born	9 November 1984 Valladolid (Spain)
Previous series
2008–2009–10 2008 2007–09 2006, 2008–09 2004 2003–06 2002–03 2002	GP2 Asia Series International GT Open GP2 Series Euro/Italian Formula 3000 World Series by Nissan Spanish F3 Championship Formula Junior 1600 Spain Formula Lliure

Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias (born November 9, 1984 in Valladolid) is a Spanish racing driver, who competed in the GP2 Series from 2007 to 2009. Prior to this he competed in Spanish Formula Three and various Formula 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, behind Ricardo 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.

Euroseries 3000

Rodríguez drove for the Minardi Euroseries 3000 team in 2006 alongside his Spanish F3 campaign.

GP2 Series

Giancarlo Minardi's team-up with Hitech/Piquet Sports for the 2007 GP2 Series season led to Rodríguez securing the second seat in the team, alongside Alexandre Negrão. He finished the season in 17th place.

Rodríguez driving for FMS International at the Silverstone round of the 2008 GP2 Series season.

After initially beginning 2008 without a GP2 drive, he replaced the injured Michael Herck at Fisichella Motor Sport for the last round of the GP2 Asia Series, then kept his seat with the team for the main 2008 GP2 Series season, replacing Andy Soucek who had been expected to fill the seat.^[1] He finished thirteenth in the championship, an improvement upon the previous year.

Rodríguez returned to Piquet GP to compete in the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, where he finished third behind Kamui Kobayashi and Jérôme d'Ambrosio, and the 2009 GP2 Series season,^[2] where he finished eleventh.

Rodríguez rejoined Scuderia Coloni, the old Fisichella Motor Sport team, for the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series season but was replaced by Alberto Valerio after the first round.

Formula One

Rodríguez tested for Minardi during the 2005 season. He was signed by the Force India Formula One team as a test driver for the winter of 2007-2008.^[3] He was linked with a race seat at Formula One newcomers Campos Grand Prix for 2010,^[4] but has announced that he will be taking a sabbatical from motorsport instead.^[5]

Racing record

Complete GP2 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	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2007	Minardi Piquet Sports	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 12	ESP FEA 4	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA Ret	FRA FEA 16	FRA SPR 9	GBR FEA 8	GBR SPR 11	GER FEA 10	GER SPR 9	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR 3	TUR FEA 11	TUR SPR 8	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 8	BEL FEA 15	BEL SPR 10	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 17	17th	14
2008	Fisichella Motor Sport	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR Ret	TUR FEA 12	TUR SPR 13	MON FEA 6	MON SPR 4	FRA FEA Ret	FRA SPR 16	GBR FEA 11	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA 18	GER SPR 16	HUN FEA 19	HUN SPR Ret	EUR FEA Ret	EUR SPR 10	BEL FEA 21	BEL SPR Ret	ITA FEA 6	ITA SPR 2		13th	14
2009	Piquet GP	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA 11	MON SPR Ret	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 17	GBR FEA 12	GBR SPR 9	GER FEA 2	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 13	VAL FEA 5	VAL SPR Ret	BEL FEA 5	BEL SPR 2	ITA FEA 13	ITA SPR 7	POR FEA 5	POR SPR Ret		11th	25

Complete GP2 Asia 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	DC	Points
2008	FMS International	DUB1 FEA	DUB1 SPR	IDN FEA	IDN SPR	MYS FEA	MYS SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	DUB2 FEA 15	DUB2 SPR Ret			29th	0
2008–09	Piquet GP	CHN FEA 1	CHN SPR 6	DUB FEA 3	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA 6	BHR1 SPR 23	QAT FEA Ret	QAT SPR 17	MYS FEA 4	MYS SPR 12	BHR2 FEA 2	BHR2 SPR Ret	3rd	35
2009–10	Scuderia Coloni	ABU1 FEA 10	ABU1 SPR 14	ABU2 FEA	ABU2 SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR					23rd	0

References

• Career statistics from driverdb.com, retrieved March 4, 2007.

1. "FMS International sign Rodriguez". autosport.com. 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
2. "Rodriguez returns to Piquet for 2009". crash.net. 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
3. "Spyker test role for Rodriguez". motorsport.com. 2007-09-20. Retrieved 2007-09-20.
4. "De la Rosa for Campos?". grandprix.com. 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
5. "Roldán Rodríguez anuncia que no competirá la próxima temporada". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish) (Vocento). 2010-01-12. Retrieved 2010-01-20.

External links

• Official website