Roldán Rodríguez

Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias (born 9 November 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.

Roldán Rodríguez
Nationality	Spanish
Full name	Roldán Rodríguez Iglesias
Born	(1984-11-09) 9 November 1984 (age 39) 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

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 at the circuit of Vallelunga (Italy).^[3]

He was signed by the Spyker Formula One team as a test driver for the winter of 2007–2008.^[4] Rodriguez had a test with them in the middle of the season at Silverstone.^[5] During the 2008 pre-season, he was testing with Force India (former Spyker) to become an official driver,^[6][7] however Rodríguez was rejected in favor of Giancarlo Fisichella^[8]

He was linked with a race seat at Formula One newcomers Campos Grand Prix for 2010,^[9] but has announced that he will be taking a sabbatical from motorsport instead.^[10]

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	CAT FEA 4	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA Ret	MAG FEA 16	MAG SPR 9	SIL FEA 8	SIL SPR 11	NÜR FEA 10	NÜR SPR 9	HUN FEA 6	HUN SPR 3	IST FEA 11	IST SPR 8	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 8	SPA FEA 15	SPA SPR 10	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 17	17th	14
2008	Fisichella Motor Sport International	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR Ret	IST FEA 12	IST SPR 13	MON FEA 6	MON SPR 4	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR 16	SIL FEA 11	SIL SPR Ret	HOC FEA 18	HOC SPR 16	HUN FEA 19	HUN SPR Ret	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 10	SPA FEA 21†	SPA SPR Ret	MNZ FEA 6	MNZ SPR 2		13th	14
2009	Piquet GP	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 11	MON SPR Ret	IST FEA Ret	IST SPR 17	SIL FEA 12	SIL SPR 9	NÜR FEA 2	NÜR SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 13	VAL FEA 5	VAL SPR Ret	SPA FEA 5	SPA SPR 2	MNZ FEA 13	MNZ SPR 7	ALG FEA 5	ALG 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	SEN FEA	SEN SPR	SEP FEA	SEP SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	DUB2 FEA 15	DUB2 SPR Ret			29th	0
2008–09	Piquet GP	SHI FEA 1	SHI SPR 6	DUB FEA 3	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA 6	BHR1 SPR 23	LSL FEA Ret	LSL SPR 17	SEP FEA 4	SEP SPR 12	BHR2 FEA 2	BHR2 SPR Ret	3rd	35
2009–10	Scuderia Coloni	YMC1 FEA 10	YMC1 SPR 14	YMC2 FEA	YMC2 SPR	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR					23rd	0

References

1. "FMS International sign Rodriguez". autosport.com. 21 April 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
2. "Rodriguez returns to Piquet for 2009". crash.net. 24 September 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2008.
3. AS, Diario (22 November 2005). "Roldán Rodríguez se estrenó en un F-1 con Minardi". AS.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2022.
4. "Spyker test role for Rodriguez". motorsport.com. 20 September 2007. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2007.
5. "Test de Roldán Rodríguez con Spyker en Silverstone". www.f1latam.com. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
6. AS, Diario (18 September 2007). "Roldán a punto de fichar por Spyker para 2008". AS.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2022.
7. "Force India probará con 7 pilotos distintos la próxima semana". www.f1aldia.com. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
8. AS, Diario (10 January 2008). ""Han preferido pasado frente a futuro"". AS.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2022.
9. "De la Rosa for Campos?". grandprix.com. 6 July 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
10. "Roldán Rodríguez anuncia que no competirá la próxima temporada". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Vocento. 12 January 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2010.

External links

• Official website
• Roldán Rodríguez career summary at DriverDB.com