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Memo Rojas

Memo Rojas
Nationality Mexico Mexican
Born (1981-08-18) August 18, 1981 (age 35)
Mexico City, Mexico
Related to Memo Rojas, Sr.
United SportsCar Championship career
Debut season 2007 (as Grand-Am)
Current team DeltaWing
Car no. 0
Starts 91
Wins 28
Poles 8
Best finish 1st in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
Previous series
2004
2002–2003
2000–2001
1997–1998
Formula Renault
Barber Dodge Pro Series
Formula Ford 2000
Formula 3 Mexico
Championship titles
2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 Rolex Sports Car Series

Guillermo "Memo" Rojas, Jr. (born August 18, 1981) is a Mexican professional race car driver. Successful in American sports car racing, Rojas is a four-time series champion in the Rolex Sports Car Series and a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. He is the first Mexican driver to win a major American racing championship.

Rojas was born in 1981 in Mexico City, Mexico. He is son of the Mexican driver Guillermo Rojas, Sr.

Rojas began his racing career in 1993, racing karts; in 1996 he moved up to professional racing in the Mexican Formula Two series. Heading to the United States in 1997, he joined the Barber Dodge series, before returning to Mexico in 1998 to race for two years in the national Formula Three series.

Returning to the United States in 2000, he spent two years racing in the American Formula Ford 2000 series, before moving up to the Barber Dodge Pro Series for the 2002 and 2003 seasons, claiming two wins during his time in the series, and finishing second in the series championship in 2003. He then graduated to the European Formula Renault series with DAMS in 2004, scoring two top-five finishes over the course of the year. In 2005 he returned to the United States, racing in the Toyota Atlantic championship series for a single race at the Fundidora park circuit in Monterrey.

Switching from open-wheel racing to sports cars in 2007, Rojas joined Chip Ganassi Racing to compete in the Grand American Road Racing Rolex Sports Car Series, as a teammate to Scott Pruett. Claiming his first win in the series in 2007, Rojas won his first 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race the following year with co-drivers Pruett, Juan Pablo Montoya and Dario Franchitti. The victory propelled Rojas and Pruett to the Rolex Sports Car Series championship that year, setting a series record for the most victories in a season with six wins over the course of the year.


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