With a history of wins and championships since he was 15, the 18-year-old Mexican driver aims to reach the top of NASCAR in the US.
This 2023 he was Runner-up in the ARCA Menards Series and Rookie of the Year and Top 4 in the NASCAR Mexico Series, and he is already prepared to return to race in 33 races in total in 2024 in both countries, in pursuit of the championships of the two aforementioned categories, while the time comes for Xfinity and NASCAR Cup.
The young 18-year-old driver from the Telmex Telcel Team starred in a brilliant 2023, racing in both Mexico and the United States, in a total of 32 races, with a hectic schedule and obtaining significant and historic results, and is ready to face and achieve greater goals in 2024, in its ambitious project to reach the top of The National Association for Stock Auto Racing.
In ARCA Menards Series, after 20 races in the main NASCAR EU circuits, he was Runner-up in 2023, and in our country Rookie of the Year in 2023 in NASCAR Mexico Series, where he finished in fourth place overall, after fighting for the crown until the last race, out of a total of 12, within the classification of the four chosen for the grand final after the playoffs, competing with drivers of the stature of Rubén García, Germán Quiroga and Salvador de Alba, all of them experienced and with several championships in his credit.
Andrés started in second position in qualifying and it was enough to cross the finish line first before his three aforementioned contenders to achieve the feat, however luck was not on his side at the Mexico City Autodrome in the final of the NASCAR Mexico Series. called Speed Fest.
The runner-up in the ARCA Mernards Series was obtained in a table of 117 entries, and he registered 10 top 5s and 15 top 10s, and in just the fifth race he managed to start from the front row (Charlotte Motor Speedway), staying one hundredth behind. the pole position; Six races later he recorded a pole position at Michigan International Speedway. He earned two second-place finishes, at the Illinois State Fairgrounds and Salem Speedway.
He also covered 2,482 laps in the ARCA Menards Series and enjoyed the lead in 87 laps in his first season, trailing only the American Jesse Love, who won the 2023 tiara.
Our compatriot, who raced for the Rev Racing team in the number 2 Chevrolet, in 2023 was also part of the Drive for Diversity program for the second consecutive year.
By 2024 he will once again seek the championship in ARCA (Automovile Racing Club of America), once again belonging to the Drive for Diversity, and the NASCAR Mexico Series.
His record, in summary, is: Arca Menards Runner-up and Rookie of the Year and Top 4 NASCAR Mexico Series 2023, at 18 years old; 2022 NASCAR Challenge Champion, at age 17; and Champion and Rookie of the Year Trucks México Series 2020, at 15 years old.
His ultimate goal is: NASCAR Cup, the star category of NASCAR EU.
He has age, talent and resources… and genes, since his father, Ricardo Pérez de Lara, is a multi-time champion in Mexico and Ferrari Challenge Champion of North America and Ferrari Challenge World Champion 2014. He has it in his blood (read training and example).
“I am very flattered to return in 2024 to the ARCA Menards Series and the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Program, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary as a program to promote new talent, currently with Brandon Thompson as Vice President of NASCAR Drive for Diversity. The premise is the ARCA and NASCAR Mexico Series championships, within my main objective, which is the NASCAR Cup,” said Andrés Pérez de Lara.
“For now, I am going for the victory at El Coliseo de Los Ángeles, an invitational race for the NASCAR Mexico Series, on February 4, with m
SOURCE: OFFICIAL PROGRAM NASCAR MEXICO SERIES
