Tatiana Calderon
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Tatiana Calderón Noguera (born March 10, 1993) is a Colombian racing driver who competes for BWT Arden in the FIA Formula 2 Championship. Calderón, a descendant of a car dealer, began participating in go-karts at the age of nine and became the first woman to win national karting championships in Colombia and the United States.
She returned to Formula 2,000 in the 2011 season at the age of 17. She won two gold in the 2011 Florida Winter Series, and runner-up in the 2015 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship.
Calderón was the first woman to stand on the podium of the British Formula 3 International Series and the first to lead a lap in the FIA Formula 3 European Championships.
She competed in the GP3 Series from 2016 to 2018.
Calderón has been working with the Sauber Formula One (later Alfa Romeo Racing) as a tester and then a test pilot.
BWT Arden had signed her in 2019 to drive for them in the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship.
Early and personal life
Calderón was born in Colombia's capital, Bogota, on March 10, 1993, to Alberto Calderón Palau and Mara Clara Calderón. Alberto is Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's first cousin, and Mara is the niece of Rodrigo Noguera Laborde, co-founder of the Sergio Arboleda University. In Bogotá, her parents own a Kia Motors dealership. Calderón has an older sister, Paula, who co-manages the development of her younger sibling Fernando Plata, and a younger brother, Felipe. She studied at Colegio Helvetia in Bogotá from 1997 to 2011, learning English and German, as well as her native Spanish, and coordinated her training with her education, with her sometimes having to miss weeks of school. Calderón played football, tennis, field hockey, golf, and horse riding before settling on motor racing at the age of nine. She has resided in Madrid, Spain's capital, since 2012.
Racing career
She told her parents that after winning the Snap-On-Stars of the Karting Divisional Championship-JICA Eastern Championship, she told them about her decision to concentrate on racing rather than enrolling in college. Calderón had more success in 2009 when she made her sports car debut, finishing second in the Radical European Master Series, earning 240 points for the PoleVision team. In the year's Colombian Rotax Senior Max Challenge, she came in second place. Calderón, 17, entered open-wheel racing in the Star Mazda Championship (part of the Road to Indy program), and was the No. 17 of Juncos Racing in 2010. The 25-cars were on display. In the first Autobahn Country Club competition, she had five top-ten finishes, with a best of seventh. Calderón finished with 320 points in 13 races for a final championship finish of 10th. That year, she also won the Colombian Rotax Championship.
After reading a book written by Daly, Calderón joined the Derek Daly Academy driver development program in early 2011. Although Daly coached Calderón and aided her in transition to more capable vehicles, she stayed with Juncos Racing for the 2011 Star Mazda Championship and shortened her car number to 10. At Barber Motorsports Park and Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Calderón earned two third-place finishes. With these results, she became the first woman to reach the podium in Star Mazda Championship history. With 322 points scored, her final championship appearance was sixth. Calderón qualified in the final three rounds of the 2011 European F3 Open Championship for Team West-Tec in October, winning three points by finishing eighth in the second Circuit de Catalunya championship, placing 21st in the drivers' standings.
She started to train in Indy Lights for the 2012 season, but she and her father's aversion of oval tracks had her disapproved. Calderón began assisting her in improving her driving skills around this time. Emilio de Villota, the team's chief, competed in the entire 2012 European F3 Open Championship with Emilio de Villota Motorsports as her race engineer. Calderón finished ninth in the championship with eight top-ten finishes and 56 points scored. She rode the final two weekends of the 2012 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series for AV Formula in October, scoring no points to place 33rd in the standings. Calderón took a No. 2 months later and traveled to Colombia to reach the 6 Hours of Bogotá. 91 She shared a 91 Radical car with Juan Camilo Acosta, Juan Esteban Garca, and Luis Carlos Martez, finishing third overall and second in class.
She competed for both the FIA Formula 3 European Championship and the British Formula 3 International Series in 2013 for the 2013 season. Calderón debuted as the series' sole female racer in the five-round, fifteen-race New Zealand-based Toyota Racing Series with ETEC Motorsport. With a third-place finish at the Nürburgring round last year, she became the first woman to stand on the overall podium in British Formula 3 history. In part due to tyre issues and Double R Racing's inexperience in the European series, she received no points in the European series, in part because of tyre issues. Calderón finished 20th in the Masters of Formula 3 at Circuit Zandvoort in July. In late October, she tried an Auto GP car in a two-day test session at the Circuito de Jerez in late October. EmiliodeVillota Motorsport made a guest appearance in the Circuit de Catalunya's season-end European F3 Open Championship round, but she was ineligible to score points.
Calderón claimed her first open-wheel race at Sebring International Raceway in 2014 during the Florida Winter Series. She came in fifth place in the championship standings with two other top-five finishes. Calderón returned to Europe and competed in the EuroFormula Open Winter series round at Circuit Paul Ricard, finishing third for Emiliodeventillota Motorsport. She had been signed with Signature Team days before the 2014 FIA Formula 3 European Championship began; a lack of testing time and misgivings of her noncompetitive due to the car's under-powered engine led her to join Jo Zeller Racing. She finished 15th in the drivers' standings during the season, in which she was consulted by Anthony Hamilton, the father of driver Lewis Hamilton. Calderón was the first woman to enter the Macau Grand Prix since Cathy Muller in 1983, finishing 13th.
Susie Wolff, a driver from late 2014, began to mentor and guide Calderón. After testing with the team in December 2014, she returned to Carlin for the 2015 FIA Formula 3 European Championship. Calderón was briefly leading the spa-Francorchamps third race, making her first woman to lead a series of races. In the 33-race season, she had no points to go unranked. Calderón competed in the MRF Challenge Formula 2000 Championship for MRF Racing, where she gained a reputation for danger overtaking because the cars' low downforce allowed them to run close together. She appeared in the top five for the first time, winning at the Dubai Autodrome and finishing runner-up to Pietro Fittipaldi in the points standings.
Calderón was ineligible to begin the series for the fourth consecutive season thanks to a rule introduced by motorsport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, in late 2015, which banned drivers to three full seasons in European F3. She then competed for Arden International in the 2016 GP3 Series, becoming the team's first female driver in history. She had tried a World Series Formula V8 3.5 car with Pons Racing at Ciudad del Motor de Aragón in November 2015 before choosing GP3 two months later because it was quicker. Calderón achieved two points from tenth-place finishes at the Hockenheimring and the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in the drivers' championship, scoring 21 points. She was slow in qualifying, putting her at 17th in average starting position. Calderón was third in the Red Bull Ring and earned 66 points for Teo Martn Motorsport and then RP Motorsport in six rounds of the Euroformula Open Championship. She appeared on the Canal F1 Latin America show Directo Fórmula.
Calderón was introduced to the Sauber Formula One team principal Monisha Kaltenborn and began working for Sauber as a development engineer at the end of 2016. She conducted experiments in Sauber's simulator and joined the team at race weekends in addition to continuing her GP3 schedule. For the 2017 season, Calderón switched teams from Arden to DAMS. She had a best result at seventh in the Monza feature race and was eighth at the Circuto de Jerez in eighth place with seven points, placing eighth in the drivers' championship. Calderón rode in the World Series Formula V8 3.5 at Bahrain International Circuit in place of Damiano Fioravanti at RP Motorsport. She came in third place in the second race, claiming the first podium finish for a woman in the series.
After DAMS' departure from the championship, she joined Jenzer Motorsport in the 2018 GP3 Series. Sauber hired Calderón as its test pilot, spending time in the team's simulator and engineers coached her at its headquarters and race circuits a month later. In GP3, she gained 11 points over seven races for a championship appearance of 16th. Calderón expressed her desire to try for Sauber before the year came to an end, winning the first Latin American woman to drive a Formula One vehicle. Calderón test drove a 2013 C32 car at the Fiorano Circuit a month later. She tested the Techeetah DS E-FE19 electric car at Ad Diriyah's first Formula E in-season test on December 16 and then drove it again in the series's rookie test at Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan on January 13, 2019.
Calderón returned to Arden, California, for the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship, marking the first woman to compete in the series. The renamed Alfa Romeo Racing team retained her as the year's test pilot. She said that her two Formula One test sessions assisted her in her acclimatization to Formula 2. Calderón became the first woman to lead a lap in Formula 2 at the Baku feature race. Due to a lack of tyre preparation, poor qualifying results led her to try different tactics to win a feature competition. During the season, she had two race engineers. Calderón finished 11th at Circuit Paul Ricard, placing him 22nd in the drivers' standings with no points scored. She earned sponsorship that allowed her to participate in the season-end Autódromo Hermanos Rodro's double header round of the Porsche Supercup in Team Project 1's No. 59. 24 911 GT3 Cup cars, many of whom have quit the first race and ended 25th and last in the second.
Calderón left the team and pursued a career in either American or endurance racing following the purchase of Arden's Formula 2 entry for the 2020 season by HWA Racelab and the signing of drivers Giuliano Alesi and Artem Markelov. As a result, she left Formula 2 to join Drago Corse with ThreeBond in the Super Formula Championship for the 2020 season. Ryo Michigami, the team's owner, began negotiations with her late in December 2019 and ended with an agreement not long after. Michigami preferred Calderón over Nobuharu Matsushita for the position, and she talked to him often about the SF19 vehicle. In addition to her Super Formula work, she spent time as a test pilot for Alfa Romeo's Formula One team. Calderón was appointed an ambassador for the team after collaborating with reserve driver Robert Kubica to produce the C39 vehicle. She appeared in three rounds of the 2019-20 F3 Asian Championship with Seven GP, with six top-ten finishes for 31 points and 13th in the drivers' standings.
Rahel Frey, Katherine Legge, and Christina Nielsen were among the No. finalists in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's 2020 24 Hours of Daytona (part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship) on Saturday. 19 GEAR Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo. Calderón woke up to the challenge by exercising more often and sleeping less in case she was instructed to drive early in the morning. Multiple car problems relegated the team to a 16th-place finish in class. Sophia Flörsch of Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) Oreca 07-Gibson on the all-female Signatech-run Richard Mille Racing crew in 2020 exhibited a Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) Oreca 07-Gibson car in the European Le Mans Series (LMP2) Oreca 07-Gibson. Calderón finished the ELMS Championship with three top-tens for 11th in the Drivers' Championship, earning 1912 points and being 23rd in the Super Formula Championship with zero points. She made her 24 Hours of Le Mans debut in September, finishing ninth overall and ninth in LMP2 and 13.
Calderón competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2021, earning the No. 1 trophy. 1 Richard Mille Racing-owned Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 with Flörsch and Visser, and then went to drive for the single car Drago Corse team in the Super Formula Championship. She was also retained as Alfa Romeo's test and development manager. Calderón's WEC career saw her finish 17th in the LMP2 Drivers' Championship with 23 points and four top-ten finishes in the five races she competed in. She ended the Super Formula season without scoring any points in the four races she rode for 24th in the championship standings. Sébastien Bourdais' No. 10 was tested by Calderón. By a sponsorship agreement, 14 A. J. Foyt Enterprises-prepared Dallara-Chevrolet car ran for 87 laps in a single day at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in July 2021. She was planning to spend two weeks on the circuit and the car, as well as receiving mentoring and mentoring.
Calderón's appearance impressed A. J. Foyt Enterprises, and the team rated her as a potential vehicle for the 2022 IndyCar Series. She has signed to drive the No. 2022 in 2022. The IndyCar Series's 11 A. J. Foyt Enterprises Dallara-Chevrolet vehicle was used for the street and road course rounds of that year's IndyCar Series. Calderón struggled to acclimatize to the circuits she competed on due to limitations on testing that limited her to a single pre-season testing session, her IndyCar track experience, as well as adjusting to new tyres and a car that needed physical effort. She was disqualified after seven races due to repeated missed payments from her team's main sponsor. With 58 points scored, she reached her 29th position in the drivers' standings. Calderón joined Charouz Racing System in August, swapping Cem Bölükbaş with Cem Bölükbaş for the final four rounds of the 2022 Formula 2 Championship.