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[Elford68]

And there is the Roberto Guerrero entry:

* Guerrero, Roberto (Col/USA)
b. 16/11/1958 (Medellín, Colombia)

Emigrated to the USA


1970-1976 – Kart Racing in Colombia and America. Won 2 titles.

1977 – Came to Europe to study. Took 5 wins in 6 races at Jim Russell Driving School program.

1978 – British FF1600; 5th, 8 wins.

1979 – British F3 (Anglia Cars Argo JM3-Toyota); 9th, 15 pts.

European F3 (Argo JM3-Toyota); 25th, 2 pts.

1980 - British F3 (Argo JM6-Toyota); 2nd, 95 pts, 5 wins

1981 – F2 (Maurer Motorsport Maurer MM81-BMW) ; 7th, 16 pts.
Silverstone ret/21/electrical
Hockenheim 10th
Thruxton 1st
Nürburgring ret/7/accident with Necchi
Vallelunga ret/38/gearbox
Mugello 6th
Pau ret/44/accident
Enna-Pergusa 4th
Spa ret/11/fuel pump
Donington ret/1/rocker arm
Misano 4th
Mantorp Park ret/43/gearbox

1982 – F1 (Ensign N181-Ford):
South Africa DNP, contractual problems between Maurer and Mo Nunn.
Brazil DNQ
USA-W 19th ret/27/crashed
San Marino DNA (race boycotted by British teams)
Belgium DNQ
Monaco DNQ
USA-E 11th ret/6/accident with Patrese and De Angelis
Canada 20th ret/2/clutch
Netherlands DNQ
Britain 19th ret/3/engine
France DNQ
Germany 21st 8th
Austria 16th ret/6/spun off
Switzerland 19th ret/4/engine
Italy 18th NC
USA-Las Vegas 15th DNS, engine blown at warm-up.

IMSA: 3h Daytona (BMW M1, & D.Montoya), 10th.



1983 – F1 (Theodore N183-Ford):
Brazil 14th NC
USA-W 18th ret/27/gearbox
France 22nd ret/23/engine
San Marino 21st ret/3/accident with Sullivan
Monaco DNPQ
Belgium 14th ret/23/engine
USA-E 11th NC
Canada 21st ret/27/engine
Britain 21st 16th
Germany 24th ret/1/engine
Austria 21st ret/25/gearbox
Netherlands 20th 12th
Italy 21st 13th
Europe 21st 12th

1984 – CART (Bignotti-Cotter March 84C-Cosworth); 11th, 52 pts, Rookie of the Year.
Long Beach 5th ret/10/engine
Phoenix 10th ret/33/injector
Indy 500 7th 2nd
Milwaukee 22nd ret/85/accident
Portland 3rd ret/37/gearbox
Meadowlands 6th ret/16/accident
Cleveland 3rd 5th
Michigan 9th 5th
Road America 2nd 11th
Pocono 6th ret/19/accident
Mid-Ohio 11th ret/58/suspension
Sanair 3rd ret/1/gearbox
Michigan 15th ret/16/engine
Phoenix 8th ret/46/accident
Laguna Seca 9th 7th
Las Vegas 9th 6th

1985 – CART (Bignotti-Cotter March 85C-Cosworth); 17th, 34 pts.
Long Beach 8th ret/3/suspension
Indy 500 16th 3rd
Milwaukee 5th 6th
Portland 7th ret/68/accident
Meadowlands DNS, crashed in practice.
Cleveland 15th 19th
Michigan 15th ret/204/gearbox
Road America 5th ret/25/puncture
Pocono 13th ret/113/engine
Mid-Ohio 14th ret/35/broken exhaust
Sanair 2nd ret/28/accident
Michigan 17th ret/53/engine
Laguna Seca 3rd 4th
Phoenix 16th ret/59/engine
Miami 10th ret/1/accident

IMSA (March 85G-Buick, & Lammers):
3h Miami 9th 9th






1986 – CART (Bignotti-Cotter March 86C-Cosworth); 9th, 87 pts.
Phoenix 15th 8th
Long Beach DNS, engine.
Indy 500 8th 4th
Milwaukee 6th ret/173/engine
Portland 3rd ret/65/accident
Meadowlands 3rd 4th
Cleveland 9th ret/32/driveshaft
Toronto 6th ret/61/brakes
Michigan 4th ret/47/accident
Pocono 7th ret/23/engine
Mid-Ohio 6th 2nd
Sanair 7th ret/118/accident
Michigan 2nd ret/19/engine
Road America 24th 4th
Laguna Seca 6th 5th
Phoenix 8th ret/179/engine
Miami 1st 2nd, ran out of fuel at the last lap.

1987 – CART (Vince Granatelli Racing March 87C-Cosworth); 4th, 106 pts.
Long Beach 2nd ret/88/engine
Phoenix 21st 1st
Indy 500 5th 2nd
Milwaukee 1st ret/178/engine
Portland 1st ret/10/engine
Meadowlands 4th ret/68/flat tire
Cleveland 1st 5th
Toronto 2nd 4th
Michigan 11th ret/211/engine
Pocono 4th 3rd
Road America 2nd 7th
Mid-Ohio 1st 1st

A crash while testing at Indy left him in coma for 17 days and his season was over.

IMSA (Zakspeed USA Ford Mustang Probe, & E.Fittipaldi):
3h Miami 14th ret/56

1988 – CART (Vince Granatelli Racing LolaT88/00-Chevrolet); 12th, 40 pts.
Phoenix 2nd 2nd
Long Beach 10th ret/41/engine
Indy 500 12th ret/1/accident
Milwaukee DNQ
Portland 23th 14th
Cleveland 15th ret/51/engine
Michigan 16th ret/99/engine
Pocono 16th 3rd
Mid-Ohio 14th 11th
Road America 12th ret/10/engine
Nazareth 11th 6th
Laguna Seca 13rd ret/67/spun off
Miami 19th ret/1/accident

Missed some races because his performances weren’t good enough.



1989 – CART (Alex Morales Motorsport March 89CE-Alfa Romeo); 22nd, 6 pts.

Missed the first races of the season, including Indy 500 when Alfa Romeo declared itself unready for competition.

Detroit 22nd 8th
Portland 23rd ret/26/fuel injection
Cleveland 21st 13th
Meadowlands 27th ret/70/suspension
Toronto 19th ret/4/oil leak
Michigan 27th ret/99/engine
Pocono 22nd 16th
Mid-Ohio 16th 12th
Road America 20th ret/17/clutch
Nazareth 16th ret/1/accident
Laguna Seca 21st ret/23/spun off

1990 – CART (Patrick Racing); 16th, 24 pts.
(March 90CA-Alfa Romeo):
Phoenix 16th ret/145/accident
Long Beach 19th 14th
Indy 500 28th ret/118/suspension
Milwaukee 21st ret/88/suspension
Detroit 18th ret/24/engine
Portland 16th 8th
Cleveland 17th ret/31/gearbox
Meadowlands 19th ret/87/gearbox
(Lola T90/00-Alfa Romeo):
Michigan 25th 5th
Denver 11th ret/67/gearbox
Vancouver 10th ret/29/accident
Mid-Ohio 15th ret/34/clutch
Road America 12th 8th
Nazareth 9th 9th
Laguna Seca 16th ret/75/fire

1991 – CART:
(Patrick Racing Lola T91/00-Alfa Romeo):
Indy 500 28th ret/23/accident
(Kenny Bernstein’s Lola T91/00-Buick):
Detroit 14th 15th
(Fendi Team Lola T91/00-Cosworth):
Toronto 18th ret/3/fire
(Kenny Bernstein’s Lola T91/00-Buick):
Denver 14th ret/37/spun off
Laguna Seca 22nd 18th

1992 – CART (Kenny Bernstein’s); 36th, 1 pt.
(Lola T91/00-Buick):
Long Beach 14th ret/69/electrical
(Lola T93/00-Buick):
Indy 500 1st ret/0/crashed on warm-up lap

1993 – CART (Kenny Bernstein’s Lola T93/07-Chevrolet); 14th, 39 pts.
Surfers Paradise 15th ret/49/transmission
Phoenix 4th ret/162/wheel bearing
Long Beach 18th 5th
Indy 500 10th ret/125/accident
Milwaukee 10th 7th
Detroit 18th ret/18/suspension
Portland 17th ret/47/accident
Cleveland 18th ret/1/accident
Toronto 14th 10th
Michigan 11th 7th
Loudon 5th 4th
Road America 12th ret/33/engine
Vancouver 18th 11th

After Vancouver team dropped him.

1994 – CART (Pagan Racing Lola T92/00-Buick):
Indy 500 20th ret/20/accident

1995 – CART (Pagan Racing Reynard 941-Mercedes); 32nd, 1 pt.
Phoenix 25th 16th
Indy 500 13th 12th

1996 - IRL (Pagan Racing Reynard 941-Ford); 4th, 234 pts.
Orlando 2nd 5th
Phoenix 3rd ret/89/engine
Indy 500 6th 5th (crashed in a multiple pile-up last corner!)
Loudon 18th 6th
Las Vegas 9th 4th

1997 – IRL (Pagan Racing); 7th, 221 pts.
(Dallara-Nissan):
Orlando 17th ret/56/fuel pump
Phoenix 10th 7th
Indy 500 19th ret/25/steering
Texas 15th 13th
(Dallara-Oldsmobile):
Pikes Peak 5th ret/85/accident
Charlotte 7th ret/141/accident
Loudon 10th 6th
Las Vegas 18th ret/197/accident

1998 – IRL; 26th, 83 pts.
(Pagan Racing Dallara-Oldsmobile):
Orlando 6th ret/13/accident
Phoenix 11th ret/44/transmission
Indy 500 9th 22nd
Texas 8th ret/4/accident

After Texas round, Pagan Racing dropped him out.

(Price Cobb Racing G.Force-Oldsmobile):
Pikes Peak 10th ret/106/ignition
Atlanta 28th ret/133/clutch
Texas 18th 4th
Las Vegas 18th ret/123/accident



1999 – IRL (Price Cobb Racing G.Force-Nissan); 30th, 36 pts.
Orlando 12th 13th
Phoenix 11th ret/160/accident
Indy 500 25th ret/105/engine

Team closed due to financial problems.
2000 – IRL; 44th, 7 pts.
(A.J.Foyt Racing Dallara/G.Force-Oldsmobile):
Indy 500 DNQ
(Team Coulson G.Force-Oldsmobile):
Kentucky 25th ret/48/engine

NASCAR Busch Series: Tested an Hispanic Racing Team car at Gateway early April, but crashed, breaking his right scapula and cracking two ribs. At the mid of the season, drove at Gateway 300, but DNQ.

2001 – IRL (Dick Simon Racing Dallara-Olsmobile):
Indy 500 DNQ


Nowadays, he keeps racing in Off-Road races in South America.

[B Squared]

From what I saw over the years, a nicer person you will not meet. His September, 1987 Indy practice incident that left him in a coma certainly affected his racing career but not his character. As an example, in Phoenix, 1988 Roberto made his comeback from the head injuries with a great 2nd to Mario. During the course of the weekend (Saturday morning, I think) my friend and fellow worker, Rich Schroeder, was working the wall in center pit. He was hit in the head by a wheel from a car that wrecked coming out of turn four in one of the preliminary races. He had on a set of head phones but that did little to blunt the impact. If I remember correctly, Rich's skull was fractured and he was in a coma for close to two weeks. Rich was eventually returned to his Chicago area home for rehab. Roberto had all the drivers sign a helmet (rather ironic, no?) at Long Beach, and when Rich was able to take visitors during his recovery, Roberto was one of the first there to offer his encouragement and help and presented him with the helmet to let Rich know that all were with him and thinking of him during his recovery. Thankfully Rich did recover 100% from the episode, worked IndyCar races for close to 10) more years and is now retired in NW Indiana. Two good men that are thankfully still with us.

Brian

[Rob G]

Originally posted by Elford68
1991 – CART:
(Fendi Team Lola T91/00-Cosworth):
Toronto 18th ret/3/fire

This car was entered by the Euromotorsport team rather than Fendi. The 3 laps completed was a typo; Phil Harms has it as 37.

[malvi]

Originally posted by Rob G

This car was entered by the Euromotorsport team rather than Fendi. The 3 laps completed was a typo; Phil Harms has it as 37.

Rob is right.
One more correction - Guerrero crashed heavily Euromotorsport`s primary Lola T9100 during final qualifying period and was forced to start the race in backup LolaT9000.

This poor quality image from "On Track" ,aug. 9. 1991 shows clearly year old car.

[fines]

1979 – F3 (Anglia Cars Argo/Toyota JM3)

(incomplete)
03-04 British rd 1 Silverstone Club ? 5th
03-25 British rd 3 Silverstone GP 14th dns/accident in P
04-01 British rd 4 Snetterton 7th ret/0/accident
04-16 British rd 6 Thruxton 5th ?
05-07 British rd 7 Brands Hatch Indy ? ret/accident
05-20 European rd 6 Donington 5th 5th
05-26 European nc Monte Carlo ? dns
05-28 British rd 9 Silverstone Club ? 5th
06-03 British nc Donington 2nd 2nd
06-10 British rd 10 Brands Hatch Indy 13th ?
06-17 British rd 11 Cadwell 13th ?
07-01 British rd 12 Silverstone Club 8th 6th
07-14 British rd 13 Silverstone GP ? 4th
08-05 British rd 14 Snetterton ? 7th
08-12 British rd 15 Mallory 12th 5th
10-28 British rd 20 Thruxton ? 4th
11-03 British nc Thruxton 2nd 2nd

1980 - F3 (Anglia Cars Argo/Toyota JM6)

(incomplete)
03-02 British rd 1 Silverstone Club ? 5th
03-09 British rd 2 Thruxton 3rd 1st
03-30 British rd 3 Brands Hatch Indy ? 6th
04-07 British rd 4 Thruxton ? 2nd
04-20 British rd 5 Silverstone GP ? 3rd
05-05 British rd 6 Thruxton ? 1st
05-11 British rd 7 Snetterton ? 2nd
05-17 European nc Monte Carlo ? ret/4/accident
06-01 British rd 9 Cadwell ? 1st
06-08 British rd 10 Silverstone GP ? 2nd
06-29 British rd 11 Brands Hatch Indy ? 1st
07-06 British rd 12 Silverstone Club ? 4th
07-13 British rd 13 Brands Hatch GP 4th 4th
07-19 British rd 14 Oulton ? 1st
09-07 European rd 11 Silverstone GP 3rd ?
09-28 British rd 17 Mallory ? 3rd
10-05 British rd 18 Silverstone GP ? 4th
10-18 British rd 19 Oulton ? 4th
10-26 British rd 20 Thruxton ? 2nd

1983 - F3 (Ralt/Toyota RT3)

11-20 World nc Macau 2nd 2nd

[B Squared]

From Curt Cavin's Indy Star Blog yesterday. I thought it may be of interest.

Question: What's Roberto Guerrero been up to lately? (Sam, Lewis, Ind.)

Answer: Roberto is still living in California; I spoke with him during the holidays. His oldest son, Marco, is 23 and a mechanical engineer. They competed in the Baja 1000 together. His other son, Evan, is a sophomore at Lehigh (Pa.) University. But here's the interesting part: He's 6-4, 210 pounds and plays on the lacrosse team. Roberto just turned 50 if you can believe that.

I believe Roger Penske is a Lehigh graduate. (B2 comment on RP)

Brian

[Phil Rainford]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Alan Cox
[B]Here are some happy snaps from Roberto's F3 and F2 days



Absolute cracker Alan

Kind regards

Phil

[Elford68]

Thanks for the photos.

[Dennis Currington]

I couldn't agree more about Roberto being one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet. Here is a shot that I took of him at Phoenix in 1987. You can see that he was posing for only me. I later got him to autograph it which he graciously did.

[Updraught]

Originally posted by B Squared
From Curt Cavin's Indy Star Blog yesterday. I thought it may be of interest.

Question: What's Roberto Guerrero been up to lately? (Sam, Lewis, Ind.)

Answer: Roberto is still living in California; I spoke with him during the holidays. His oldest son, Marco, is 23 and a mechanical engineer. They competed in the Baja 1000 together. His other son, Evan, is a sophomore at Lehigh (Pa.) University. But here's the interesting part: He's 6-4, 210 pounds and plays on the lacrosse team. Roberto just turned 50 if you can believe that.

I believe Roger Penske is a Lehigh graduate. (B2 comment on RP)

Brian

By all accounts, Roberto is a good guy and was a very good CART driver. RP attended Lehigh, but did not graduate.

[Flat Black]

Originally posted by Updraught



By all accounts, Roberto is a good guy and was a very good CART driver. RP attended Lehigh, but did not graduate.

What a failure!

[Elford68]

Does anyone know what is he doing since he retired from IRL?

[Chris Townsend]

Originally posted by fines
1979 – F3 (Anglia Cars Argo/Toyota JM3)

(incomplete)
03-04 British rd 1 Silverstone Club ? 5th [Qualified 6th]
03-25 British rd 3 Silverstone GP 14th dns/accident in P
04-01 British rd 4 Snetterton 7th ret/0/accident
04-16 British rd 6 Thruxton 5th ? [Qualified 5th]
05-07 British rd 7 Brands Hatch Indy ? ret/accident [Qualified 9th DNS accident in P]
05-20 European rd 6 Donington 5th 5th
05-26 European nc Monte Carlo ? dns [21st DNQ 1.38.16]
05-28 British rd 9 Silverstone Club ? 5th [Qualified 10th]
06-03 British nc Donington 2nd 2nd
06-10 British rd 10 Brands Hatch Indy 13th ? [Qualified 13th]
06-17 British rd 11 Cadwell 13th ? [Qualified 13th]
07-01 British rd 12 Silverstone Club 8th 6th
07-14 British rd 13 Silverstone GP ? 4th [Qualified 11th]

Add 07-15 nc Donington 12th DNS

08-05 British rd 14 Snetterton ? 7th [Qualified 5th]
08-12 British rd 15 Mallory 12th 5th

[Add 08-27 British rd 16 Silverstone club 9th R driveshaft
Add 09-15 British rd 17 Oulton 4th R accident
Was DNA at rd 18
Add 10-07 British rd 19 Silverstone GP 7th R accident]

10-28 British rd 20 Thruxton ? 4th [Qualified 5th]
11-03 British nc Thruxton 2nd 2nd

1980 - F3 (Anglia Cars Argo/Toyota JM6)

(incomplete)
03-02 British rd 1 Silverstone Club ? 5th [Qualified 3rd]
03-09 British rd 2 Thruxton 3rd 1st
03-30 British rd 3 Brands Hatch Indy ? 6th [Qualified 7th]
04-07 British rd 4 Thruxton ? 2nd [Qualified 5th]
04-20 British rd 5 Silverstone GP ? 3rd [Qualified 2nd]
05-05 British rd 6 Thruxton ? 1st [Qualified 1st]
05-11 British rd 7 Snetterton ? 2nd [Qualified 3rd]
05-17 European nc Monte Carlo ? ret/4/accident
06-01 British rd 9 Cadwell ? 1st [Qualified 1st]
06-08 British rd 10 Silverstone GP ? 2nd [Qualified 2nd]
06-29 British rd 11 Brands Hatch Indy ? 1st [Qualified 1st]
07-06 British rd 12 Silverstone Club ? 4th [Qualified 5th]
07-13 British rd 13 Brands Hatch GP 4th 4th
07-19 British rd 14 Oulton ? 1st [Qualified 1st[

Add 08-25 British rd 15 Silverstone club 2nd R accident

09-07 European rd 11 Silverstone GP 3rd ? [Qualified 3rd]
09-28 British rd 17 Mallory ? 3rd [Qualified 7th]
10-05 British rd 18 Silverstone GP ? 4th [Qualified 6th]
10-18 British rd 19 Oulton ? 4th [Qualified 3rd]
10-26 British rd 20 Thruxton ? 2nd [Qualified 4th]

1983 - F3 (Ralt/Toyota RT3)

11-20 World nc Macau 2nd 2nd

I've added to Michael's database for F3 and add the following Formula Atlantic [or Pacific] result

1982
11-21 Macau GP 6th 8th [not running accident on last lap]

[stevewf1]

I have a memory of Guerrero... Can't remember what year it was now, but it was sometime around 1990, A buddy and I attended the CART race at Elkhart Lake. After the race, we were driving back home to Indianapolis, in pretty heavy Interstate traffic south of Chicago trying to maneuver to the turn-off for I-65 south. It was dark by then. We were in a zippy Honda CRX and my buddy was driving pretty fast. As we we were barreling along, we noticed this "lumbering" motor home catching us up rapidly. My buddy, who was not shy about driving fast said "no way he's getting ahead of us"... Well, this motor home did. When it went past, we saw "Roberto Guerrero Racing" on the back. Somehow, Guerrero managed to get this motor home past a whole bunch of traffic and onto I-65 well ahead of us. A few miles later, we finally caught up. As we went past, I saw Guerrero driving and gave a wave. Guerrero acknowledged with a flash of the headlights.

[Twin Window]

Originally posted by Alan Cox

That's Christine Goodhand moonlighting as Roberto's 'brolly girl'; she was engaged to Stefan Johansson at the time.


Thruxton 1980 (and a problem with my Zenit E );




Mantorp Park 1981;

[Lotus23]

Updraught (post #11), are you sure Roger Penske didn't graduate from Lehigh?

I could be mistaken, but iirc he did in '59. Same year Mark Donohue graduated from Brown.

[Vicuna]

This thread must not continue without photos of one of the best looking wife of a racing driver.

[Vicuna]

Just one shot of Katie??

[Dennis Currington]

Roberto's big win at Phoenix in April 1987

[jkracing]

Roberto's 1987 Indy car is now on display in Jack Thompson's collection which I was fortunate to get a chance to see the other week.

[Gert]

Originally posted by Dennis Currington
[B]Roberto's big win at Phoenix in April 1987

Nice photos!

Are they all from the same meeting?

In the first picture, the car has no. 2, where in the other ones it's no. 4 ...

[fines]

Left side and right side, to confuse the scorers...;)

[Dennis Currington]

Originally posted by Gert


Nice photos!

Are they all from the same meeting?

In the first picture, the car has no. 2, where in the other ones it's no. 4 ...

You didn't see the x.5 in small lettering? At least they were the same driver and color.

[Twin Window]

Originally posted by Vicuna

This thread must not continue without photos of one of the best looking wife of a racing driver.

I have a good story about Katie & me, but will ponder on whether I should tell it...

[Updraught]

Twinny, you cannot tease us like that. Let's hear your story!

[Flat Black]

Anybody recall the year Roberto raced a phosphorescent orange car at Indy? May have been the coolest livery I've ever seen on a race car.

[GMiranda]

My article on Roberto Guerrero - https://mirandaribei...berto-guerrero/