Andre Castro will drive the RiceRace #6 Mygale for races 16-18 in the FRP F1600 Championship Series on August 20-22. Andre will be the 6th driver in the "guest driver" car this season, which if scored as a single entry, would sit second in points. Andre joins team mates Will Holtz, Kyle August, and Jonathan Lee in the RiceRace stable at the Summit Point track which is located in northern West Virginia, just south of Washington, DC.
Andre Castro is a first-generation Colombian-American racecar driver who has been behind the wheel since he was seven. Andre raced with the Skip Barber Series and became a finalist for the 2016 Team USA Scholarship. Andre is a college student majoring in Economics with specialization in Business at the University of Chicago. Andre is also an actor, having participated as the lead role in several theater productions in high school and college. Andre is also an avid iRacer and won the 2020 EuroNASCAR Esports Series championship. Most recently, Andre raced with Marotti Autosport/Legacy Autosport in the 2021 USF2000 Championship, scoring two top-10 finishes at the St Petersburg event.
The RiceRace team is booked for the balance of this year, and now looking to fill seats for 2022. Team owner Greg Rice reports, "We would like to get prospective drivers in the cars this fall so we can evaluate and build the strongest driver line-up that we can. We will be putting new drivers in cars for the American Road Race of Champions at Road Atlanta on November 5-8th so they can sample the class and our team. In 2022, we will be running 3 F1600 Mygales in FRP and our Citation FC in SCCA events, joined by some Mygales. We can do 12-15 events including the June Sprints and Runoffs. Interested drivers should contact me at RiceRacePrep@gmail.com."
