Roldán RodrÃguez
Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias ( born November 9, 1984 in Valladolid ) is a Spanish racing driver.
Career
1997 Rodriguez began like most racers his career in karting. In 2002, he joined the Spanish Formula Junior, he eventually finished third. The following year, Rodriguez remained in the Spanish Formula Junior and secured the championship title. In addition, he was active in the Spanish Formula 3. He was 14th in the overall standings. In 2004 we launched the young Spaniard again in two series: the Spanish Formula 3 where he finished eleventh, and the World Series by Nissan, where he finished in 22nd place at the end of the season. In both series, Rodríguez was only active for half a year. 2005 remained Rodríguez in the Spanish Formula 3 and was driving for Campos Grand Prix in seventh place overall. In addition, Rodríguez tested for the Minardi Formula 1 team, for which he started in the Euro Series 3000 in the following year and sixth overall was. In addition, Rodríguez took back to the Spanish Formula 3, in which he reached second place in the Championship, in part.
2007 moved Rodríguez in the GP2 Series for Minardi Piquet Sports. On the side of Alexandre Negrao he was finally with 14 points 17th place overall. His best finish was third place in the sprint race in Budapest. After the season Rodríguez signed a contract as a winter test driver for Formula 1 team Force India, but was in the shoot-out for second place alongside Adrian Sutil not prevail.
In early 2008 launched Rodríguez on the last race weekend of the newly formed GP2 Asia Series for FMSI as a replacement for the injured Michael Herck at hand. Thus he drove for the team Giancarlo Fisichella, he was inferior to the Shoot -out at a Formula 1 cockpit in winter. For the 2008 GP2 Series season, Rodriguez was also short-term obligation of FMSI, as the team of Andy Souček separated. During the season, with Adrián Vallés Rodríguez, Adam Carroll and Marko Asmer three teammates had. Rodríguez was able to get only two race weekends of points, but managed to score points in both races then. At the last race of the season at Monza Rodriguez reached second place with his best placement in the GP2 series. Rodríguez took 14 points as the previous year, but this time was 13th in the overall standings.
For the 2008/2009 GP2 Asia Series season, Rodriguez returned to his former team, which is now Piquet GP was called back. His teammate Diego Nunes was. At the first race in Shanghai Rodríguez was able to start from pole position and win thanks to an error by Kamui Kobayashi, who had overtaken him at the beginning of the race. It was the first victory for Rodriguez in the GP2 series ( both Europe and Asia) of his career. With one point behind the runner- Jérôme D' Ambrosio Rodríguez finished end of the season in third place in the overall standings.
The Spaniard went into the 2009 season, the European GP2 series as team-mate Alberto Valerio for Piquet GP at the start. With two second place as best result he finished at the end of the season in eleventh place overall. He also competed in two races in the Euro Series 3000, where he scored a point. On the first race weekend of the GP2 Asia Series season 2009/2010 he started as a teammate of Will Bratt for the Scuderia Coloni, the successor team of FMSI. However, it was replaced after the first race weekend by his former teammate Valerio. At the end of the season, he finished 23rd overall. Rodríguez 2010 will start in any race series and take a break.