Piero Rodarte

Last updated May 23, 2023

Piero Rodarte is a race car driver born in Mexico on November 30, 1983.^[1]

Rodarte competed in Karting in Mexico, winning several National Championships including the Formula Super A championship, from there he moved to race Formula Reynard in Mexico winning the championship in 1999. In 2000,^[2] He raced the USFF2000, having a lot of top 5s and finishing 3rd place at Indianapolis at the famous Night Before the 500, in 2001 he continued to race the USFF2000, having pole positions, several top 3's and victories, been the most important the one at the Night Before the 500 in Indianapolis. For 2002 Barber Dodge Pro Series,^[1]^[2] finishing 12th in the final standings, after a not very lucky season in Barber Dodge, in 2003 he was hired in Mexico by Chrysler to drive for the official Mopar Neon team, winning the Neon Challenge Championship. In 2004 he raced the F3 Winter Cup in Spain, having a great race, and fighting for the overall win at the rain with Nico Rosberg (now in F1), he finished 3rd, and in 2005 returned to motorsport with the Spanish Formula Three Championship team ECA^[1] having several pole positions and victories, he ended the season in 3rd place even though he started the season at the third race due to the lack of sponsors and budget to complete the whole season. Now he is retired from professional racing and Piero owns a Formula Renault Team in Mexico^[3] and combines this with driver coaching in the US, and with his duties as a professional airplane pilot. Piero is now head engineer for Campos racing at F4 Spanish Championship and at the European F3 Championship.

Complete motorsports results

American Open-Wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest race lap)

Complete USF2000 National Championship results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos	Points
1999	Espiritu de Mexico	PIR	CHA1	CHA2	MOS	MOS	MDO	ATL	ROA1	ROA2	CTR	MDO	PPI	SEB1 11	SEB2 10	N.C.	N.C.
2000	Espiritu de Mexico	PIR 23	MOS1 12	MOS2 14	IRP1 11	ROA1 8	ROA1 35	TRR 26	MOS3 8	WGI1 11	WGI2 14	IRP2 3	ATL1 20	ATL1 25		11th	94
2001	Roquin Motorsports	HMS1 27	HMS2 12	HMS3 7	WGI1 8	WGI2 10	IRP 1	MDO1 7	MDO2 23	ROA1 4	ROA2 3	MDO3 5	SEB1 3	SEB2 4		4th	192

Barber Dodge Pro Series

Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Rank	Points
2002	SEB 15	LRP 11	LAG 12	POR 9	TOR 14	CLE 8	VAN 15	MDO 13	ROA	MTL 6	12th	41

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References

1 2 3 "Piero Rodarte". Speedsport Magazine Race Driver database. Speedsport Magazine. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
1 2 "SBRS: Team Telmex driver line up". Motorsport.com. 1 March 2002. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2010.
↑ Staff (10 March 2009). "Novedades: LATAM Challenge Series". autoxauto.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 April 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.

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[speedsport-1] 1 2 3 "Piero Rodarte". Speedsport Magazine Race Driver database. Speedsport Magazine. Retrieved 7 August 2010.

[motorsport-2] 1 2 "SBRS: Team Telmex driver line up". Motorsport.com. 1 March 2002. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2010.

[3] Staff (10 March 2009). "Novedades: LATAM Challenge Series". autoxauto.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 April 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2010.

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