Benito Guerra Jr.
{{short description|Mexican rally driver (born 1985)}}
{{family name hatnote|Guerra|Latapí|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox WRC driver
| name = Benito Guerra Jr.
| image= BenitoGuerraJr01.JPG
| caption = Guerra Jr. with Javier Lozano (left), in 2005
| nationality = {{flagicon|MEX}} Mexican
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|03|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place =
| Co-driver = {{flagicon|ESP}} Daniel Cué
{{flagicon|ESP}} Borja Rozada
| Teams = Ralliart, Motorsport Italia
| Races = 44
| Championships = 0
| Wins = 0
| Podiums = 0
| Stagewins = 0
| Points = 22
| First race = 2006 Rally México
| First win =
| Last win =
| Last race = 2022 Rally de Portugal
}}
Benito Iván Guerra Latapí (born 25 March 1985) is a Mexican rally driver competing for Citroën Racing, a privateer team in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) in 2013, with his co-driver Borja Rozada.
In 2012 he won the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC) and became a World Champion.{{cite news|url=http://www.wrc.com/pwrc/news/sunday-pwrc-wrap-guerra-crowned/?fid=17921|title=Sunday PWRC wrap: Guerra crowned|work=WRC.com|publisher=WRC.com|date=November 11, 2012|accessdate=January 12, 2013|first=Matt|last=Beer|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204818/http://www.wrc.com/pwrc/news/sunday-pwrc-wrap-guerra-crowned/?fid=17921|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
His father is Benito Guerra Sr., a vintage racing driver like La Carrera Panamericana{{cite web|url=http://www.lacarrerapanamericana.com.mx/jpg/resultados/RESULTADOS%20OFICIALES%20LCP%202012%20OVERALL.pdf|title=Resultados oficiales/Official results|work=LaCarreraPanamericana.com.mx|accessdate=January 12, 2013}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and Notary public in Mexico City, his mother is Mercedes Guerra (née Latapí), a CPA. Benito has a younger sister named Mercedes, a fan of motorsport.
Career
=2006 – 2010=
Guerra Jr. made his World Rally Championship debut on his home event Rally Mexico in 2006, finishing the event in 26th.{{cite web|url=http://ewrc-results.com/profile.php?profile=246|title=Driver profile – Beníto Guerra jr.|work=eWRC-results.com|publisher=eWRC.cz|accessdate=13 September 2011}} In 2007 he started both Rally Mexico and Rally Argentina, but retired from both with mechanical problems. He finished 14th on the 2008 Rally México, winning the Group N category. In 2009 he won the Spanish Production title, winning the Spanish gravel title outright in 2010. He finished 15th overall and fourth in PWRC on the 2010 Rally México.
=2011=
He began 2011 by finishing 11th overall on Rally Mexico, and then committed to a PWRC programme. He finished fourth in PWRC in Portugal, fourth in Australia and third in Spain. At the end of the season Guerra Jr. finished sixth overall, scoring 47 WRC points.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrc.com/pwrc/results/2011/championship-standings/|title=2011 FIA WRC-3 Standings|work=WRC.com|accessdate=January 12, 2013}}
=2012=
{{See also|2012 World Rally Championship}}
Benito and his co-driver Borja Rozada, won in México, Argentina and España rallies, plus a second place in Germany, thereby the Mexican-Spaniard duo got the PWRC world championship with 109 points, over the Argentinian team Marcos Ligato and Rubén García (88 points).{{Cite web |url=http://www.wrc.com/pwrc/results/ |title=World Rally Championship - Results |access-date=2012-11-11 |archive-date=2012-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111023206/http://www.wrc.com/pwrc/results/ |url-status=dead }} So, Guerra Jr. became the first Mexican rally driver to win a World Championship, and the second Mexican to earn a title in the world of motorsport. Until then Pedro Rodríguez(†) was the only one who had achieved in 1970 and 1971 at the World Sportscar Championship with JW-Porsche.
;Race of Champions
As of the 2012, PWRC champion Benito Guerra Jr. is invited to participate in the 25th edition of the Race of Champions, from 14 to 16 December in Bangkok along with racing legends like Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel. His teammate of Team Americas is the Texan Ryan Hunter-Reay, 2012 IndyCar Series champion.{{cite web |url=http://www.periodico.am/aguascalientes/benitoguerraesconvocadoalraceofchampions-53342.html |title=Benito Guerra es convocado al Race of Champions - Aguascalientes |website=www.periodico.am |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130110093905/http://www.periodico.am/aguascalientes/benitoguerraesconvocadoalraceofchampions-53342.html |archive-date=10 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.raceofchampions.com/pages/common/RaceofChampions.aspx?pg=7619 |title=
Benito Guerra |access-date=2012-12-12 |archive-date=2013-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113105655/http://www.raceofchampions.com/pages/common/RaceofChampions.aspx?pg=7619 |url-status=dead }}
Guerra Jr. said: “This is a great end-of-season challenge and it’s fantastic for my career to be part of ROC 2012. I’m very excited to compete with all of these great drivers and join Team Americas with Ryan Hunter-Reay. See you all in Bangkok!” {{Cite web |url=http://www.raceofchampions.com/News/general-news/guerra-to-partner-hunterreay-on-team-americas.aspx |title=Race of Champions - News Story - Guerra to partner Hunter-Reay on 'Team Americas' |access-date=2012-12-08 |archive-date=2012-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121212235541/http://www.raceofchampions.com/News/general-news/guerra-to-partner-hunterreay-on-team-americas.aspx |url-status=dead }}
In the Nations Cup race Guerra beats Jorge Lorenzo and the ROC Champion of Champions of 2011, Sébastien Ogier but is defeated by Andy Priaulx, due to a penalty. Therefore, the Team Americas is eliminated in the first round because Hunter-Reay is defeated in two of his three rounds.{{Cite web |url=http://raceofchampions.com/News/general-news/team-germany-win-sixth-roc-nations-cup.aspx |title=Race of Champions - News Story - Team Germany win sixth ROC Nations Cup |access-date=2012-12-15 |archive-date=2012-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217035732/http://www.raceofchampions.com/News/general-news/team-germany-win-sixth-roc-nations-cup.aspx |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/104840|title = Race of Champions: Vettel, Schumacher win Nations' Cup for Germany| date=15 December 2012 }}
For the Champion of Champions event Guerra Jr. bears little fortune and is eliminated in first round. At the end the overall winner of the ROC 2012 is the F1 driver Romain Grosjean.{{Cite web |url=http://raceofchampions.com/News/general-news/grosjean-crowned-2012-champion-of-champions.aspx |title=Race of Champions - News Story - Grosjean crowned 2012 Champion of Champions |access-date=2012-12-16 |archive-date=2012-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219065814/http://www.raceofchampions.com/News/general-news/grosjean-crowned-2012-champion-of-champions.aspx |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/104845|title = Romain Grosjean wins 2012 Race of Champions| date=16 December 2012 }}
=2013=
{{See also|2013 World Rally Championship}}
Due to lack of sponsorship Guerra Jr. did not participate in Monaco and Sweden rallies but in his country México he started with Citroën Racing, a privateer team in the WRC in 2013, with his co-driver Borja Rozada.
On his very first race in the WRC, as a rookie in the category, Guerra gets a great result entering in the top-ten of the Mexican rally, thus he gets his first four points for the championship ending at 8th overall position behind the winner Sébastien Ogier for 12:49.8 minutes.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wrc.com/results/ |title=World Rally Championship - Results |access-date=2013-03-10 |archive-date=2011-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525164453/http://www.wrc.com/results/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.wrc.com/results/2013/rally-guanajuato-mexico/stage-times/ |title=World Rally Championship - Results - Rally Guanajuato Mexico |access-date=2013-03-10 |archive-date=2013-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310060540/http://www.wrc.com/results/2013/rally-guanajuato-mexico/stage-times/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/105939|title = Rally Mexico: Sebastien Ogier secures commanding win| date=10 March 2013 }}
=2019=
In the twenty-ninth edition of the Race of Champions, held at Foro Sol in Mexico City, Guerra defeated French driver Loïc Duval, winner of 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2013 WEC, in the final. On his way to the final match against Duval, Guerra Jr. defeated drivers like Sebastian Vettel, Pierre Gasly, Daniel Suárez, Esteban Gutiérrez, among others.{{Cite web|url=https://www.raceofchampions.com/race-results/|title=This is Roc}}
Complete World Rally Championship results
=WRC results=
| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;" |
| Year
! Entrant ! Car ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! 16 ! WDC ! Points |
|---|
| 2006
! Benito Guerra | MON | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | ESP | FRA | ARG | ITA | GRE | GER | FIN | JPN | CYP | TUR | AUS | NZL | GBR ! NC ! 0 |
| 2007
! Benito Guerra | MON | SWE | NOR |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| MEX | POR |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ARG | ITA | GRE | FIN | GER | NZL | ESP | | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| 2008
! Benito Guerra | MON | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | ARG | JOR | ITA | GRE | TUR | FIN | GER | NZL | ESP | FRA | JPN | GBR | ! NC ! 0 |
| 2009
! RMC Motorsport | IRE | NOR | CYP | POR | | ITA | GRE | POL | FIN | AUS |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP | GBR | | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| 2010
! Benito Guerra | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | JOR | TUR | NZL | POR | BUL | FIN | GER | JPN | FRA | ESP | GBR | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| rowspan=2| 2011
!rowspan=2| Ralliart | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POR | JOR | ITA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ARG | GRE |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| FIN | GER | | FRA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GBR | | | !rowspan=2| 26th !rowspan=2| 2 |
| Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
| | | | | | | | | |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| AUS | | | | | | |
| 2012
! Ralliart | MON | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | POR |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ARG |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| GRE | NZL | FIN |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| GER | GBR | FRA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ITA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
! rowspan="2" | Benito Guerra Jr. | MON | SWE |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| MEX | POR | ARG | GRE | ITA | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA | | | | | ! rowspan="2" |24th ! rowspan="2" |4 |
| Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
| | | | | | | | | | | | style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP | GBR | | | |
| rowspan=2| 2014
| MON | SWE |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| MEX | POR | ARG | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA | | | | | !rowspan=2| 17th !rowspan=2| 8 |
| BAS Motorsport
| | | | | | | | | | | |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP | GBR | | | |
| 2015
! Benito Guerra Jr. | MON | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | ARG | POR | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA | ESP | GBR | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| 2016
! Benito Guerra Jr. | MON | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | ARG | POR | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | CHN | FRA | ESP | GBR | AUS | | ! NC ! 0 |
| 2017
! Motorsport Italia | MON | SWE |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | FRA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ARG |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POR | ITA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POL | FIN |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| GER |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ESP | GBR | AUS | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| 2018
! Motorsport Italia | MON | SWE |style="background:#FFFFFF;"| MEX | FRA | ARG |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POR |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ITA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| FIN |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| GER | TUR | GBR | ESP | AUS | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| rowspan="2"| 2019
!rowspan="2"| Benito Guerra | MON | SWE |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| MEX | FRA |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ARG |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| CHL |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POR | ITA | FIN | GER | TUR | | | | | !rowspan="2"| 16th !rowspan="2"| 8 |
| Škoda Fabia R5 Evo
| | | | | | | | | | | |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| GBR |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ESP | AUS | | |
| 2020
! Benito Guerra | MON | SWE | style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MEX | EST | TUR | ITA | MNZ | | | | | | | | | ! NC ! 0 |
| 2022
! Benito Guerra | MON | SWE | style="background:#cfcfff;"| CRO |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| POR | ITA | KEN | EST | FIN | BEL | GRE | NZL | ESP | JPN | | | ! NC ! 0 |
=PWRC results=
| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;" |
| Year
! Entrant ! Car ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! PWRC ! Points |
|---|
| 2010
! Benito Guerra | SWE |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| MEX | JOR | NZL | FIN | GER | JPN | FRA | GBR ! 18th ! 12 |
| rowspan=2| 2011
!rowspan=2| Ralliart | SWE |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| POR |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| ARG |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| FIN | |style="background:#FFDF9F;"| ESP |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| GBR | | !rowspan=2| 6th !rowspan=2| 47 |
| Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
| | | | |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| AUS | | | | |
| 2012
! Ralliart | MON |style="background:#FFFFBF;"| MEX |style="background:#FFFFBF;"| ARG |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GRE | NZL |style="background:#DFDFDF;"| GER |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| ITA |style="background:#FFFFBF;"| ESP | |style="background:#FFFFBF;"| 1st |style="background:#FFFFBF;"| 109 |
=WRC-2 results=
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| Year
! Entrant ! Car ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! WRC-2 ! Points |
|---|
| 2014
! BAS Motorsport | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| ESP | GBR | ! 28th ! 12 |
| 2017
! Motorsport Italia | MON | SWE |style="background:#FFDF9F;"| MEX | FRA |style="background:#FFDF9F;"| ARG |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| POR | ITA |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| POL | FIN |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GER |style="background:#FFDF9F;"| ESP | GBR | AUS | ! 6th ! 59 |
| 2018
! Motorsport Italia | MON | SWE |style="background:#FFFFFF;"| MEX | FRA | ARG |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| POR |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| ITA |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| FIN |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GER | TUR | GBR | ESP | AUS | ! 19th ! 24 |
| rowspan="2"| 2019
!rowspan="2"| Benito Guerra | MON | SWE |style="background:#FFFFBF;"| MEX | FRA |style="background:#DFDFDF;"| ARG |style="background:#DFDFDF;"| CHL |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| POR | ITA | FIN | GER | TUR | | | !style="background:#FFDF9F;" rowspan="2"| 3rd !style="background:#FFDF9F;" rowspan="2"| 75 |
| Škoda Fabia R5 Evo
| | | | | | | | | | | |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GBR |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ESP | AUS |
| 2022
! Benito Guerra | MON | SWE | style="background:#cfcfff;"| CRO |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| POR | ITA | KEN | EST | FIN | BEL | GRE | NZL | ESP | JPN | ! NC ! 0 |
=WRC-3 results=
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|Benito Guerra|Benito Guerra Jr.}}
- {{Official website|http://www.guerrajr.com/}}
- [https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?profile=246 Benito Guerra] – Guerra Jr.'s profile at ewrc-results.com
- [http://www.raceofchampions.com/pages/common/RaceofChampions.aspx?pg=7619 Benito Guerra] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113105655/http://www.raceofchampions.com/pages/common/RaceofChampions.aspx?pg=7619 |date=2013-01-13 }} – Guerra Jr.'s profile at Race of Champions' official website
{{S-start}}
{{s-sports}}
{{succession box|title=Production World Rally Championship
champion|before=Hayden Paddon|after=Sébastien Chardonnet
(WRC-3)|years=2012}}
{{succession box | title = Race of Champions
Champion of Champions | years= 2019 | before = David Coulthard | after = Sébastien Loeb
(2022)}}
{{S-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guerra, Benito Jr.}}
Category:Mexican rally drivers
Category:World Rally Championship drivers