Apdaly Lopez
Carlos "Apdaly" Lopez (born December 2, 1994) is an off-road racing driver from Tecate, Baja California. Lopez won the gold medal in the Stadium Super Trucks class at the X Games Austin 2014. His father, Juan Carlos Lopez, is also a professional off-road racer.
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Lopez competing in the Stadium Super Trucks race at the 2014 Grand Prix of Long Beach | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Mexican | |||||||||||
| Born | Carlos Lopez December 2, 1994 Tecate, Baja California | |||||||||||
| SCORE International career | ||||||||||||
| Current team | RPM Off Road | |||||||||||
| Car number | 1 | |||||||||||
| Engine | Dougans Engine | |||||||||||
| Crew chief | Rick Geiser, Matthew Alley | |||||||||||
| Co-driver | Luis Omar Montiel | |||||||||||
| Former teams | PIN Manufacturing, BORM RACING | |||||||||||
| Starts | 25 In Trophy truck | |||||||||||
| Wins | 2 In Trophy truck | |||||||||||
| Poles | 1 | |||||||||||
| Finished last season | 2017 Score Tijuana desert challenge 2nd | |||||||||||
| Previous series | ||||||||||||
| 2013–2018 2013 | Stadium Super Trucks Stadium Super Trucks Super Buggy | |||||||||||
| Championship titles | ||||||||||||
| 2015 2015 2014 | SCORE Trophy Truck 2015, 2016 championship Open Truck Code Off-Road Championship SCORE TT Spec Championship | |||||||||||
| Awards | ||||||||||||
| 2015 2015 2015 2014 | Univision Extreme Athlete of the Year Silver FIA American Award SCORE Driver of the Year Toyota Milestone Award | |||||||||||
| Best in the Desert career | ||||||||||||
| Car number | 5 | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Career history edit
Lopez made his debut in the SCORE International championship at the 2011 Baja 250. He won the ATVPRO 25 class with co-drivers Ivan Mejorado and Gilberto Perez in a Honda TRX450.[1]
Lopez competed in the newly-formed Stadium Super Trucks Super Buggy championship in 2013. At the Qualcomm Stadium Lopez won two races.[2] He also competed in the main series at St. Louis and Costa Mesa. At St. Louis the Mexican driver finished fourth. In Costa Mesa Lopez finished third in two out three races.
In 2014 Lopez participated in the San Felipe 250. As a co-driver to Clyde Stacy the duo competed in the SCORE Trophy Truck class. The duo finished sixth in class, eighth overall.[3] He also competed full-time in the Stadium Super Trucks. After a solid start of the season Lopez won the second race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in support of the 2014 Grand Prix of Indianapolis. He had another good run during the X Games Austin 2014 where the Stadium Super Trucks made their debut. At the modified Circuit of the Americas Lopez won his heat race and subsequently won the final to claim his first X Games gold medal. Lopez went on to claim nine top three finishes during the season to claim third place in the championship.[4]
After failing to qualify for the X Games Austin 2015 final (he finished last in his heat and 13th in the Last Chance Qualifier),[5] Lopez did not return to SST until 2016 when he participated in the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb Challenge.[6] His next series points race took place in 2017 with the Race & Rock World Championship at Lake Elsinore Diamond; Lopez won the first race but retired from the second after flipping.[7] He also ran the 2018 season opener at the baseball park, a race in which he shared the victory with Bill Hynes due to confusion as multiple drivers had failed to take the Joker Lap.[8]
Personal edit
Lopez studied engineering at cetys universidad in Tijuana, Baja California.
Motorsports career results edit
Stadium Super Trucks edit
(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)
| Stadium Super Trucks results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | SSTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | PHO | LBH | LAN | SDG | SDG | STL 4 | TOR | TOR | CRA | CRA | OCF 3 | OCF 3 | OCF 10 | CPL | 17th | 51 | [9] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | STP 5 | STP 8 | LBH 6 | IMS 3 | IMS 1* | DET 9 | DET 8 | DET 6* | AUS 1* | TOR 5 | TOR 5 | OCF 9 | OCF 8 | CSS 6 | LVV 9 | LVV 3 | 3rd | 331 | [10] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | ADE | ADE | ADE | STP | STP | LBH | DET | DET | DET | AUS DNQ | TOR | TOR | OCF | OCF | OCF | SRF | SRF | SRF | SRF | SYD | LVV | LVV | 36th | 7 | [11] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | ADE | ADE | ADE | STP | STP | LBH | LBH | PER | PER | PER | DET | DET | TEX | TEX | HID | HID | HID | BEI | GLN | GLN | ELS 1* | ELS 11 | 18th | 59 | [12] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | ELS 1 | ADE | ADE | ADE | LBH 13 | LBH 9 | PER | PER | DET | DET | TEX | TEX | ROA | ROA | SMP | SMP | HLN | HLN | MXC 10 | MXC 10 | 12th | 81 | [13] | |||||||||||||||||||||
References edit
- ^ . SCORE International. Archived from the original on November 27, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ^ . Stadium Super Trucks. Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ^ "28th Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250". SCORE International. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ^ "Chasing Down Apdaly Lopez". Race DeZert. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ^ . X Games. Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ "RPM Off-Road Enters 5 Trucks in Mike's Peak Hill Climb Challenge". Off-Road. July 20, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
- ^ Nguyen, Justin (December 17, 2017). "SST: Race & Rock World Championship Recap". Overtake Motorsport. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
- ^ Nguyen, Justin (February 7, 2018). "SST: Bill Hynes declared winner of Lake Elsinore race". Overtake Motorsport. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
- ^ "2013 SST Point Standings". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ "2014 Standings". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ "2015 Official Point Standings". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ "2017 Overall Point Standings". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
- ^ "2018 Overall Point Standings". Stadium Super Trucks. Retrieved January 29, 2019.