Moisés Solana Arciniega (26 December 1935 – 27 July 1969) was a Mexican

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. He participated in eight

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World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 27 October 1963, and scoring no championship points. He also participated in one non-championship Formula One race. He also took part in

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in with

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at the Jarama Circuit near

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. His first racing events were in a 1954 special (the " Solana Sports"), built by Javier Solana. Solana was also a proficient

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player and his racing career was partly funded by this. In 1968, Solana tested a Formula Two car for

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. He also drove for

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and

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in the USRRC/

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series between 1966 and 1968, and in March 1968 he won the first point-scoring race of the USRRC Group 7 series in the first international race in

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. He still holds all the records in the Mexican road race categories and those at the Mexican

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circuit. He was the only driver in the history of the Formula One World Championship to start a race in a number 13 car ( Divina Galica, in the

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, also attempted a race with the number, but failed to qualify), something he did for BRM on his Formula One debut in the

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until

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adopted 13 as his permanent number in

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. Solana was a classified finisher in 11th despite his engine having failed eight laps short of the chequered flag. On 27 July 1969, Solana was killed in the '' Hillclimb Valle de Bravo-Bosencheve'' in Mexico, in a fatal accident after his

went wide in a bend and hit a concrete trimming on the edge of the road, overturning the car which landed on top of him and caught fire. The Solana family is still very active in motor racing and has manufactured handmade sports cars on a mostly one-off basis. The first chicane at the

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in Mexico City (turns 1–3) is known as the ''Ese Moisés Solana'' ("the Moisés Solana Esses").

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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References

External links

Moisés Solana biography
on Solana family official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Solana, Moises 1935 births 1969 deaths Mexican racing drivers Mexican Formula One drivers European Formula Two Championship drivers Racing drivers who died while racing Scuderia Centro Sud Formula One drivers Team Lotus Formula One drivers Cooper Formula One drivers World Sportscar Championship drivers Sport deaths in Mexico Carrera Panamericana drivers