Juan Manuel Silva

Argentine racing driver

Nationality

Born (1972-10-12) 12 October 1972 (age 53)

2005Turismo Carretera

Juan Manuel Silva
Silva in 2000
Nationality	Argentine
Born	(1972-10-12) 12 October 1972 (age 53) Resistencia, Chaco Province
Championship titles
2005	Turismo Carretera

Juan Manuel Silva (born October 12, 1972 in Resistencia, Chaco), nicknamed el Pato ("the Duck") is an Argentine racing driver. In 1999 he was the champion of the TC 2000 competition and in 2005 he was the champion of the Turismo Carretera competition.

His father used to build racing cars for him. Already as a teenager he won two annual karting competitions (1986 and 1987). His last three titles are separated by six years each. He crowned himself champion of three different racing series in 1993, 1999 and 2005.

He was a driver of the Argentine Formula Renault before competing in the TC2000 series. He spent part of the 1990s in Japan and returned to Argentina and to TC 2000 and Turismo Carretera in 1998.

Silva spent the late 2000s in TC2000 driving at the Honda works team with great success. He was vice-champion in 2006 and 2009, 3rd in 2008 and 7th in 2007. He moved to Renault in 2010, where he had a disastrous season and finished 15th in the standings. Silva moved to the champion team Ford in 2011.

The driver has also competed at several editions of the Dakar Rally since 2011.

References

Official website [in Spanish]

Sporting positions

Preceded by

Norberto Della Santina

Argentine Formula Renault Champion
1993

Succeeded by

Guillermo Di Giacinti

Preceded by

Omar Martínez

TC2000 champion
1999

Succeeded by

Daniel Cingolani

Preceded by

Omar Martínez

Turismo Carretera champion
2005

Succeeded by

Norberto Fontana

Preceded by

Matías Rossi
Alain Menu

Winner of the 200 km de Buenos Aires
2007
(with Ezequiel Bosio)

Succeeded by

José María López
Anthony Reid

v t e Turismo Carretera champions
Nine-time	Juan Gálvez
Seven-time	Guillermo Ortelli
Six-time	Juan María Traverso
Five-time	Oscar Alfredo Gálvez Agustín Canapino
Four-time	Dante Emiliozzi Héctor Gradassi
Three-time	Roberto Mouras Oscar Castellano Mariano Werner
Two-time	Juan Manuel Fangio Rubén Luis di Palma Francisco Espinosa Antonio Aventín Oscar Aventín Omar Martínez
One-time	Ángel Lo Valvo Rodolfo de Álzaga Juan Manuel Bordeu Eduardo Copello Carlos Pairetti Gastón Perkins Nasif Estéfano Jorge Martínez Boero Oscar Angeletti Emilio Satriano Walter Hernández Eduardo Ramos Ernesto Bessone Juan Manuel Silva Norberto Fontana Christian Ledesma Emanuel Moriatis Mauro Giallombardo Diego Aventín Matías Rossi José Manuel Urcera Julián Santero

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