Germán Quiroga

Germán Quiroga, Jr. (born on May 29, 1980 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican motor racing driver. He currently drives the No. 77 Toyota for Red Horse Racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He is a three-time champion of the NASCAR Toyota Series.

Beginnings
Quiroga began his career at the age of 15, in 1995, in the Neon Challenge in which in 1998, he was champion. From there he was alternating stock car and single-seater racing; he was runner-up in the Pick Up Dodge in 2000. In 2002, he raced the American Barber Dodge Pro Series, where he finished in the “top ten” of the championship.

NASCAR Mexico
In 2004, Germán ran some dates of the Fran-Am Series in the United States and began competing in the Corona Challenge, racing for Jorge Seman's team, where he achieved a win and two other podiums.

During the following year, he won the Formula Renault 2.0 Panam GP Series championship, achieving 2 victories, and another 5 podiums. He also raced for the Infiniti Pro Series at Indy, with Kenn Hardley Racing, and finished 10th.

Quiroga returned to Desafío Corona in 2006; he won at the start of the season in Guadalajara, but in Puebla he crashed and was out until four races to the end of the year he joined the Telcel Team. In that team, Germán achieved the best results in NASCAR Mexico. He stays one step from the title to one step from the title in 2007, and 2008, having to settle for the runner-up. However, in 2009 he would achieve his first championship in the NASCAR Corona Series. He won the championship again in 2010 and 2011, being the only driver in history to achieve the three-time championship in the category.

NASCAR USA
In 2007, Germán Quiroga made his debut in the NASCAR National Series, competing in the Busch Series event at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez for Jay Robinson Racing, where he finished 28, and led nine turns.

Later, he made his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut in 2011, competing in two events for Kyle Busch Motorsports, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Homestead-Miami Speedway, with a sixteenth-best finish position in his first race. In 2012, Quiroga left NASCAR Mexico and returned to Kyle Busch Motorsports, where he drove the Toyota Tundra No. 51 truck in the Camping World Truck Series, in four series races, ranking eighth in Talladega Superspeedway as best result.

In 2013, Germán competed in the Camping World Truck Series with Red Horse Racing, driving the No. 77 Toyota Tundra. Germán obtained 2 third places and another 4 top 10 to finish 13th in the qualifier general.

Other info
He also has worked part-time on NASCAR on NBC broadcasts, being part of mun2's broadcast of the NASCAR Toyota Series Toyota 120 at Phoenix International Raceway in February 2014.

Quiroga had a great start in 2014 season with five straight top ten finishes until Texas.

After sitting out 2015, he returned to drive part-time in the Red Horse's No. 11 truck in 2016 beginning at Texas.

American Open-Wheel racing results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest race lap)

NASCAR
(key) ( Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )

Busch East Series
$$ Season still in progress $1$ Ineligible for series points