Moisés Solana Arciniega (26 December 1935 – 27 July 1969) was a racing driver from Mexico.
He participated in eight Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on October 27, 1963, and scoring no championship points. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race. He also took part in Formula Two in 1968 with Team Lotus at the Jarama Circuit near Madrid, Spain. His first racing events were in a 1954 special (the “Solana Sports”), built by Javiér Solana. Solana was also a proficient Jai alai player and his racing career was partly funded by this. Info from Wiki
He participated in eight Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on October 27, 1963, and scoring no championship points. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race. He also took part in Formula Two in 1968 with Team Lotus at the Jarama Circuit near Madrid, Spain.
In 1968, Solana tested a Formula Two car for Ferrari. He also drove for Lola and McLaren in the USRRC/Can-Am 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 Mexico City. He still holds all the records in the Mexican road race categories and those at the Mexican Magdalena Mixhuca circuit.
He is the only driver in the history of the Formula One World Championship to race in a Number 13 car, something he did for BRM on his Formula One debut in the 1963 Mexican Grand Prix. Solana was a classified finisher in 11th despite his engine having failed eight laps short of the chequered flag.
On July 29, 1969, Solana was killed in a hillclimbing Valle de Bravo-Bosencheve in Mexico in a fatal accident after he lost control of his McLaren and hit a bridge.
Very few drivers in the history of Formula 1 have defied the scarcity by putting number 13 on their own car books.
The first of these was Moisés Solana, born on December 26, 1935 in Mexico City.
A choice that didn’t pay off for the Mexican driver, ranked eleventh eight laps away from the winner Jim Clark.
Since then, number 13 has been used by only two drivers: Divina Galica in her attempt to qualify for the 1976 British GP and Pastor Maldonado, who with the arrival of the new regulation in 2014 allowing drivers to choose a number that would fit them Then distinguished in their F1 career they opted for number 13.
Son of José Antonio Solana, a legend in Mexico in the field of children and racing cars, Moisés approached motorsport at a very young age by participating at just eighteen in Carrera Panamericana (taking sixth place in the category ahead of Piero Taruffi, who reported him as a some of the best introspective promises in the race).
Enzo Ferrari also gave him the chance to try his F2 single-seater, a test that however did not turn into a signing for the Mexican driver.
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