Tatiana Calderon
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Tatiana Calderón is an Colombia
n racing driver from Bogotá, Colombia. She competes in the Star Mazda Championship and was the first woman to earn a podium finish in the series.
when she was four years old. She studied there from 1997 until 2011 and learned English
and German
, along with her native Spanish
. During the years she competed in kart races, before moving up categories and had to accommodate her races with her schooling, sometimes having to miss weeks of school. She graduated in June 2011 and moved to Indianapolis
in order to train full time for her team, Juncos Racing.
. She also won the Colombian Rotax Championship in karting that year. In the 2011 season, she is in the seventh position as of August and has finished third twice, marking her as the first and only woman so far to climb the podium in the series.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n racing driver from Bogotá, Colombia. She competes in the Star Mazda Championship and was the first woman to earn a podium finish in the series.
Early life
Tatiana was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia and entered the Colegio HelvetiaColegio Helvetia
Colegio Helvetia is a private multilingual Swiss school located in Bogotá, Colombia.-History:Founded in 1949, only 49 students and 5 Swiss teachers activities in an old house located in the Carrera Septima in Bogota.Four years later it was moved to its current location, at the 128th street near...
when she was four years old. She studied there from 1997 until 2011 and learned English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, along with her native Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. During the years she competed in kart races, before moving up categories and had to accommodate her races with her schooling, sometimes having to miss weeks of school. She graduated in June 2011 and moved to Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...
in order to train full time for her team, Juncos Racing.
Racing career
In the 2005-06 season she was a karting driver and won the Easykart National Championship. In the next season she ended up third in the Colombian National Kart Championship, Rotax junior division. In 2008 she became the first female to win the Snap-On-Stars of Karting Divisional Championship-JICA Eastern Championship and was the IAME International Challenge champion. She continued enjoying success next year when she ended up second in the Radical European Master Series - SR5 and second in the Colombian Rotax Senior Max Challenge. In 2010 she began her open-wheel auto racing career and moved to the Star Mazda Championship driving for Juncos Racing and finished tenth in her rookie season with a best finish of seventh in race 1 at Autobahn Country ClubAutobahn Country Club
Autobahn Country Club is a road racing complex located near Joliet, Illinois. The facility includes a configurable main track with a north track, a south track, a full track of , and a kart track....
. She also won the Colombian Rotax Championship in karting that year. In the 2011 season, she is in the seventh position as of August and has finished third twice, marking her as the first and only woman so far to climb the podium in the series.
External links
- Official website
- Career detail at Driver Database
- Facebook fan page