Alfonso ("Picho") Toledano Jr. ( Mexico City, 18 Aug 1989) is a Mexican
racing driver
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Formula 3
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driver.
Career
Toledano started his racing career in
karting
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. In 2003, he was second in the 100cc class, beating among others future Formula One driver
Sergio Pérez
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. The year after, he became champion. 2005 saw his debut in formula racing; he became tenth in
Formula Renault Campus
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.
In 2006, Toledano switched to the
Panam GP Series
The Panam GP Series is the replacement of the Mexican Formula Three Championship. In 2002 began as Mexican Formula Renault, but in 2005 started an internationalization process in Central America and North of South America. In 2008, the series fe ...
and finished thirteenth. He also drove three out of five races of the International Formula Challenge, which got him to a seventh place in the championship. His 2007 Panam GP season was more successful; he scored two victories, which led to a third place in championship. However, in the fall of 2007, Toledano had a severe racing accident. It happened during a pre-season test for
A1 Team Mexico
A1 Team Mexico is the Mexican team of A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series.
Management
''A1 Team Mexico'' owners are Juan Cortina and Julio Jáuregui.Ponce, Puerto Rico. Toledano entered a blind corner at high speed and lost his brakes before impacting another car, which had come to a full stop due to a previous incident. Both of Toledano's legs sustained multiple fractures.
After eighteen surgeries and ten months of being immobile, Toledano tried his hand at
Formula BMW
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. He ran four races in the
Formula BMW USA
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Panam GP Series
The Panam GP Series is the replacement of the Mexican Formula Three Championship. In 2002 began as Mexican Formula Renault, but in 2005 started an internationalization process in Central America and North of South America. In 2008, the series fe ...
, finishing fifteenth and thirteenth in the first two races of the year. In 2013, he was eighteenth in the summer and fourteenth in the winter championship of Panam GP.
The following year, he made a switch to Formula Acceleration 1, part of
Acceleration 2014
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