Gustavo Yacamán

Gustavo Yacamán
File:Gustavo Yacaman 2014 WEC Fuji.jpg Yacamán in 2014.
Nationality	Colombian
Born	(1991-02-25) February 25, 1991 Santiago de Cali, Colombia
Rolex Sports Car Series career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Michael Shank Racing
Car no.	6
Starts	6
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	28th in 2012
Previous series
2009-2012 2006–08 2006	Firestone Indy Lights Spanish Formula 3 Spanish Formula BMW

Gustavo "El Tigrillo" (English: Ocelot) Yacamán Aristizabal (born February 25, 1991) is a Colombian racing driver from Santiago de Cali.

Racing career

Early career

After winning the American Stars of Karting competition in 2005, he moved immediately to the Spanish Formula Three Championship for the 2006 season, a significant jump for a young driver. He finished 16th in the championship. He also competed in Master Junior Formula in Europe and finished 4th. The following year Yacamán captured his first win and finished 8th in Spanish Formula Three. In 2008, he captured another win and finished 9th in Spanish F3.

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Yacamán racing at the Milwaukee Mile in 2009.

Indy Lights

For 2009, he returned to the U.S. to race in the Firestone Indy Lights Series with Sam Schmidt Motorsports. He finished 12th in points with a best finish of 4th at the Milwaukee Mile. He returned to the series in 2010 with the rookie team Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing. Yacamán improved to 10th in points and captured his first podium finish with a 3rd place at Toronto. He returned to the series in 2011 for a third season, this time with Team Moore Racing. He captured his first win late in the season at Baltimore and finished fourth in points. Yacamán achieved his first Indy Lights pole position at the 2012 Firestone Freedom 100. He finished the season third in points with two wins (at Detroit and Toronto) and three runner-up finishes.

Sports cars

For 2013 Yacamán moved to sports car racing after having raced in the 24 Hours of Daytona the previous year, driving the #6 Ford-Riley Daytona Prototype entry for Michael Shank Racing in the Rolex Sports Car Series. Yacaman caused a great deal of controversy during the 2013 race at Detroit's Belle Isle. On the first lap of the race Yacaman was trying to make a move inside of Memo Rojas but ran wide, pushing Rojas' car off-line and into a concrete barrier. The incident caused significant damage to Rojas' car, and also collected Yacaman's teammate John Pew. As a result of the incident Rojas and His teammate Scott Pruett did not accrue any points for the race which put them at a severe disadvantage for the Championship. In the course of the season, Yacamán managed a best finish of second place at Lime Rock, to finish eleventh in the championship.

For 2014 Yacamán has joined the newly unified United SportsCar Championship with OAK Racing; first with a Morgan LMP2-Nissan and then with a Ligier JS P2-Honda, managed to win at Mosport Park, and three podiums, so that ended eighth in the drivers' championship Prototype class.

Racing record

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Rank	Points
2009	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	STP1 12	STP2 9	LBH 9	KAN 17	INDY 18	MIL 4	IOW 5	WGL 7	TOR 8	EDM 16	KTY 19	MDO 10	SNM 19	CHI	HMS 16	12th	269
2010	Cape Motorsports Wayne Taylor Racing	STP 5	ALA 9	LBH 14	INDY 11	IOW 11	WGL 8	TOR 3	EDM 9	MDO 15	SNM 4	CHI 15	KTY 5	HMS 16			10th	293
2011	Team Moore Racing	STP 14	ALA 12	LBH 4	INDY 15	MIL 5	IOW 2	TOR 3	EDM1 5	EDM2 16	TRO 2	NHM 4	BAL 1	KTY 11	LVS 5		4th	401
2012	Team Moore Racing	STP 6	ALA 4	LBH 10	INDY 4	DET 1	MIL 8	IOW 2	TOR 1	EDM 7	TRO 2	BAL 2	FON 11				3rd	394

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2015	G-Drive Racing	LMP2	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 2	SPA 1	LMS 3	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	2nd*	74*

* Season still in progress.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2015	G-Drive Racing	Ricardo González Pipo Derani	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	LMP2	354	12th	4th

External links

• Gustavo "Tigrillo" Yacamán – Official Web Site
• Gustavo Yacamán career summary at DriverDB.com

• Knapp Schilke, Nancy. Gustavo Yacaman to take on new American challenge, Motorsport.com, December 30, 2008