Mario Domínguez
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Mario Dominguez (born December 1, 1975 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Champ Car racing driver.
Dominguez first began racing in 1987 driving go-karts. He won three go-karting championships and represented Mexico in the World Karting Championships on three different occasions in Spain (1989), Italy (1990) and France (1991). [1]
Mario first raced in Champ Car in 2002, and became Rookie of the Year, with his first Champ Car Victory in 2002 at the Honda Indy 300, although this was in a rain-shortened race largely dictated by the safety car. Buoyed by this, he was more competitive in 2003 and 2004, earning a ride with the Forsythe team for 2005. However, Dominguez saw limited success at Forsythe. After the first four races of the 2006 season where he crashed into his teammate Paul Tracy on the first lap twice, Dominguez and Forsythe parted ways. Before the next Champ Car race in Portland, Dominguez signed on to Dale Coyne Racing to drive the Sonny's BBQ Ford Lola-Cosworth. For the final 3 races of the season, Dominguez secured sponsorship from Mexican state-owned petroleum company Pemex to race for the slightly more competitive Rocketsports team.
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- Mario Dominguez profile provided by CBS SportsLine
| Preceded by: Scott Dixon |
CART Rookie of the Year 2002 |
Succeeded by: Sebastien Bourdais |
| 2006 Champ Car World Series | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newman/Haas | Forsythe | CTE-HVM | Australia | PKV | Rocketsports | RuSPORT | Coyne | Conquest | |
| 1 Bourdais 2 Junqueira |
3 Tracy 7 Rice |
4 Philippe 14 Clarke |
5 Power 15 Tagliani |
6 Servia 20 Legge |
8 Dominguez 18 Pizzonia |
9 Wilson 10 Briscoe |
11 Heylen 19 Wirth |
27 Ranger 34 Zwolsman |
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| Long Beach - Houston - Monterrey - Milwaukee - Portland - Cleveland - Toronto - Edmonton - San Jose - Denver - Montreal - Road America - Surfers Paradise - Mexico City | |||||||||
