Background
He is the son of Rafael De Castro and a German, Monica Walther.
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Jonathan Raphael De Castro Walther
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Career
He was the first Dominican to be granted a Formula Bayerische Motoren Werke car license. He has been a karting driver for the 3 years easily winning the karting championship in the Rotax Max class in the Dominican Republic in only his second year taking 6 wins out of 7 participated. In July 2005 he tasted his first experience with the Formula Bayerische Motoren Werke car, in which he tested in Valencia during a Formula Bayerische Motoren Werke United States of America Licensing course for 2006.
At the end of 2005 after winning the Rotax Max challenge in the Caribbean, he also participated in the Rotax Max World Championship hosted in the country of Malaysia.
In 2006, the Dominican driver spent one more year in karting, and participated in a selection hosted in Costa Rica by the renounced French school Louisiana Filière FFSA, where he was selected among several drivers all over South America, competing for a scholarship for the Formula Renault Campus 2007 season. Countries in the selection included: Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico.
During 2006 he also participated in some karting races in championships such as Stars of Karting, the Florida Winter Tour and a 4-hour endurance race in New Castle Motorsport speedway where 2005 IRL Champion Dan Wheldon Participated. In 2007, after announcing that the Dominican Government through SEDEFIR will be sponsoring the young driver, De Castro moved up from karting into the Formula Renault Campus with the Auto Sport Academy, formally known as ‘Louisiana Filiere’.
The renounced driver training organization, (located in Le Mans, France), will host 14 race events for the 2007 season with 29 drivers.
The Auto Sport Academy is responsible to the starting of careers of drivers such as: Sébastien Bourdais, Franck Montagny and Stéphane Sarrazin. As of 2008, De Castro was the only Dominican to be involved in the Formula categories in Europe. He came first in the same event in 2009.
