Alfonso ("Picho") Toledano Jr. (

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, 18 Aug 1989) is a Mexican

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. He is the son of Alfonso Toledano, former

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driver.

Career

Toledano started his racing career in

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. In 2003, he was second in the 100cc class, beating among others future

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driver

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. The year after, he became champion. 2005 saw his debut in

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; he became tenth in Formula Renault Campus. In 2006, Toledano switched to the

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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

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. 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

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. He ran four races in the

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and two races in the Formula BMW Pacific Series in order to prepare for the 2008 World Final at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in

. He finished sixteenth. After this, Toledano did not race until 2011, when he did a few pre-season GP3 Series tests. He fully returned to racing in 2012, when he joined the

, 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

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, driving for Acceleration Team Mexico. He is currently twelfth in the championship.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toledano, Alfonso Jr. 1986 births Living people Mexican racing drivers Racing drivers from Mexico City Formule Campus Renault Elf drivers Formula BMW Pacific drivers Formula BMW USA drivers Latin America Formula Renault 2000 drivers La Filière drivers EuroInternational drivers Manor Motorsport drivers FIA World Endurance Championship drivers