Luis Díaz (racing driver)
| Luis Díaz | |
|---|---|
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| Nationality |
 Mexican
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| Born |
1 December 1977 Mexico City |
| American Le Mans Series career | |
| Current team | Level 5 Motorsports |
| Former teams | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Alex Job Racing Fernandez Racing Chip Ganassi Racing Walker Racing Dorricott Racing |
| Previous series | |
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Rolex Sports Car Series Champ Car World Series Atlantic Championship Indy Lights |
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| Championship titles | |
| 1998 2009 |
Formula Mexico ALMS P2 Championship |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
| Participating years | 2012 |
| Teams |
 Level 5 Motorsports
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Luis Miguel ‘Chapulín’ Díaz Castell (born 1 December 1977, in Mexico City) is a Mexican racing driver who competes in the American Le Mans Series for Level 5 Motorsports. He won the 2009 American Le Mans Series LMP2 class drivers championship alongside team owner Adrián Fernández, and was runner-up in the 2005 and 2006 Rolex Sports Car Series DP drivers championship. Díaz also has an extensive open-wheel racing background.
Starting off in karting in 1989, Diaz was National Kart Champion in the A category and a two-time champion in the Super 100cc category. He earned Rookie of the Year honors in 1996 in Formula Reynard before moving up to Formula 3 International in 1997, where he was the highest-placed Mexican driver in the series that year.
Diaz earned the Formula Mexico title in 1998, followed by a season in the Panamerican Indy Lights, where he was also Rookie of the Year and the first Mexican driver to win a race in that series.
Díaz made his Indy Lights debut in 1999, finishing 10th in his first race at Laguna Seca. One year later, he joined the FO-Quaker-Herdez team before transitioning to Roquin Motorsports in 2001, where he finished seventh in the championship with one podium and four top-five finishes to his credit.
Diaz was hired by Dorricot Racing in 2002 and competed in his first Formula Atlantic season, finishing fourth in the championship with wins at Portland and Road America.
The following year, he won the season-opening round at Monterrey en route to an eighth-place finish in the end-of-year championship. Diaz was awarded the Gilles Villeneuve trophy for his achievements that year.
Díaz made two Champ Car starts, both as a substitute driver at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City. He failed to finish both events.
Making his sports car racing debut in 2004, Diaz teamed with Jimmy Morales in a Lexus-Riley Daytona Prototype for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Rolex Sports Car Series.
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