Alessandro Nannini
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 Italy
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| Formula 1 world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1990 Spanish Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Constructors | |||||||||
| 1986–1987 Minardi • 1988–1990 Benetton | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | World Cup sixth ( 1989 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 65 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 9 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 21 over 133 km | ||||||||
Alessandro "Sandro" Nannini (born July 7, 1959 in Siena ) is a former Italian racing driver . Between 1986 and 1990 he competed in 77 Grand Prix races in the automotive premier class Formula 1 and won one of them. Then Nannini u. a. active in the DTM . His sister is the rock musician Gianna Nannini .
Racing career
Nannini started his motorsport career in rallies with a Citroën Dyane and a Lancia Stratos . In 1980 he joined the Formula racing and went first in the Italian junior class Formula Fiat Abarth , which he graduated as a Master 1,981th Nannini rose to the Formula 2 European Championship in 1982 and started there for the Minardi team, which competed with BMW engines. The Italian performed well, but achieved little success because his vehicles were too fragile; in three years of Formula 2 up to 1984 he only achieved two second places. When Minardi decided to enter Formula 1 , Nannini followed his team. However, in 1985 he did not race, but stood by the racing team as a test driver.
In 1986 Nannini got the cockpit next to Andrea de Cesaris and made his Formula 1 debut in Rio de Janeiro , where he was in 19th place with a gearbox failure. In all other races of the season - with the exception of the Grand Prix in Mexico (14th place) - he failed, but was stronger in qualifying than the more experienced De Cesaris. In 1987 Nannini started again for Minardi and achieved the best results twice in eleventh place in Hungary and Portugal . The Italian Benetton team signed him for 1988 , where he started alongside Belgian Thierry Boutsen . This was the first time Nannini sat in a competitive Formula 1 car and justified his commitment with two third places in Silverstone and Jerez de la Frontera as well as tenth place in the drivers' standings.
After Boutsen's move to Williams , Nannini got a contract with Benetton for 1989 and got a new team-mate in the young British talent Johnny Herbert , who, however, had difficulty braking after a serious accident in the Formula 3000 and several broken feet in 1988 and not the performance that the new team boss Flavio Briatore had imagined. Herbert was replaced by Emanuele Pirro , who only scored two championship points in ten races. Nannini, however, scored 32 points during the season and finished sixth in the drivers' world championship. On October 22, 1989, he surprisingly won the Japanese Grand Prix , in which McLaren drivers and World Cup rivals Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna fought a historical duel that ended in a collision seven laps to go. Senna allowed himself to be pushed again and crossed the finish line before Nannini, but was disqualified immediately after the race.
Nannini stayed with Benetton in 1990 and now got three-time world champion Nelson Piquet as a teammate. He was able to stand up to Piquet and beat him a few times. Up until the Spanish Grand Prix , Nannini had only five points less than Piquet and one podium more to show. In Hungary he had a good chance of his second Formula 1 victory, but was torpedoed in second place and directly behind the leader by Ayrton Senna.
A week after the Spanish Grand Prix, Nannini's right forearm was cut off in a helicopter crash near Siena. Although the hand could be sewn on again, he has only been able to move it to a very limited extent since then. Nannini had to end his Formula 1 career involuntarily as the forces acting on the hands in a Formula 1 racing car are too great. Nannini made his comeback in 1992 in the Italian Touring Car Championship (CIVT) in an Alfa Romeo 155 GTA. From 1993 Nannini started in the German Touring Car Championship , where he drove an Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI for the Alfa Corse works team , which was specially adapted to his handicap. The car had two gearshift levers for the sequential gearbox, one for upshifting and the other for downshifting, as Nannini could only push the levers forwards but not pull them as a result of his injury. After his first race in April 1993 in Zolder , Belgium , Nannini was on the podium of the first place; he won a total of 14 races and was third overall in the series in 1996. After leaving the ITC at the end of 1996 , Nannini switched to the FIA GT Championship for the 1997 season , where he drove a CLK GTR for the AMG Mercedes team . At the end of the season, Nannini retired from active racing.
Career as an entrepreneur
Nannini's grandfather Guido founded a pastry shop in Siena in 1911 and opened a café under the name Bar Ideale in which Siena's first espresso machine was used. Alessandro's father Danilo and his uncle Aldo took over the business and successfully expanded with ice cream parlors, a coffee roaster and a global trade. In the meantime, Alessandro has taken over the management of the Nannini Group.
Political career
At the local elections on May 15 and 16, 2011, Nannini presented himself as candidate for mayor in Siena for the list Io amo Siena in alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's party ( PdL ). He clearly failed with 18.23% against the candidate of PD Franco Ceccuzzi. However, Nannini was elected to the local council of his hometown.
Private
Nannini has three children, two daughters and a son.
statistics
Grand Prix victories
- 1989 Japanese Grand Prix ( Suzuka )
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1983 |
Martini Racing
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Lancia LC 2 |
Paolo Barilla
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 Jean-Claude Andruet
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failure | Engine failure |
| 1984 |
Martini Racing
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Lancia LC2 / 84 |
Bob Wollek
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Rank 8 | ||
| 1985 |
Martini Racing
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Lancia LC2 |
Bob Wollek
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 Lucio Cesario
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Rank 6 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Repubblica , Speciale elezioni 2011, Siena - Elezioni Comunali 2011 , accessed on May 17, 2011
- ^ Antonella Leoncini: Fontebranda in festa per Penelope, figlia della Nannini , La Nazione, November 27, 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nannini, Alessandro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nannini, Sandro (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siena , Italy |