Emanuele Pirro

Emanuele Pirro

Nation:	Italy
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1989 French Grand Prix
Last start:	1991 Australian Grand Prix
Constructors
1989  Benetton  · 1990-1991  Scuderia Italia
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-18. ( 1991 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 37 - - -
World Cup points :	3
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Emanuele Pirro (born January 12, 1962 in Rome ) is a former Italian racing driver .

Career

Pirro made his entry into motorsport in the mid-1970s in karting . In 1976 and 1979 he became the Italian kart champion. In the following years he rose through Formula 3 , Formula 2 , Formula 3000 and various touring car championships in 1988 with McLaren- Honda as a test driver in Formula 1 .

Pirro had already tried in 1987 to compete in Formula 1 with the British Middlebridge-Trussardi team ; however, the project was not allowed to start. In 1989 Pirro had his first Formula 1 season for Benetton- Ford. In the next two years he started for the Italian team BMS Scuderia Italia . In total, he was able to qualify for 37 Grand Prix starts and scored three World Championship points. His best Formula 1 World Championship placement was 18th in the 1991 season.

In 1992 Pirro switched from formula racing to touring car racing. In 1992 he took part in the German Touring Car Championship (DTM) for one season with BMW . This was followed by several successful years in the Italian touring car championship. In 1994 and 1995 he was the overall winner of the series with Audi . In 1996 he moved back to Germany, to the ADAC-STW-Cup. Here, too, he was able to end his first season with an overall victory.

In 1999 Pirro took part in his first Le Mans 24-hour race with an Audi R8 . In the three following years he was able to win the race with his teammates Tom Kristensen and Frank Biela .

In 2004 he started alongside Frank Biela for Team Joest in an Audi A4 in the DTM .

In 2006 and 2007, together with Frank Biela (D) and Marco Werner (D), he won the Le Mans 24-hour race (24 Heures du Mans) in an Audi R10 TDI for a fourth and fifth time.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1981	Martini Racing	Lancia Beta Monte Carlo	Beppe Gabbiani		failure	accident
1998	Gulf Team Davidoff	McLaren F1 GTR	Rinaldo Capello	Thomas Bscher	failure	accident
1999	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8R	Frank Biela	Didier Theys	Rank 3
2000	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	Frank Biela	Tom Kristensen	Overall victory
2001	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	Frank Biela	Tom Kristensen	Overall victory
2002	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	Frank Biela	Tom Kristensen	Overall victory
2003	Champion Racing	Audi R8	JJ Lehto	Stefan Johansson	3rd place and class win
2004	ADT Champion Racing	Audi R8	JJ Lehto	Marco Werner	Rank 3
2005	ADT Champion Racing	Audi R8	Frank Biela	Allan McNish	Rank 3
2006	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R10 TDI	Frank Biela	Marco Werner	Overall victory
2007	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	Frank Biela	Marco Werner	Overall victory
2008	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	Frank Biela	Marco Werner	Rank 6
2010	Paul Drayson Racing	Lola B09 / 60	Paul Drayson	Jonny Cocker	not classified

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1999	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8R	Perry McCarthy	Frank Biela	Rank 5
2000	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	Tom Kristensen	Frank Biela	Overall victory
2001	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	Tom Kristensen	Frank Biela	Rank 2
2002	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	Tom Kristensen	Frank Biela	Rank 5
2003	Champion Racing	Audi R8	Stefan Johansson	JJ Lehto	Rank 2
2004	Champion Racing	Audi R8	Marco Werner	JJ Lehto	Rank 2
2005	ADT Champion Racing	Audi R8	Allan McNish	Frank Biela	Rank 2
2006	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	Marco Werner	Frank Biela	failure	Motor overheated
2007	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10 TDI	Marco Werner	Frank Biela	Overall victory
2010	Drayson Racing	Lola B09 / 60	Jonny Cocker	Paul Drayson	Rank 12

Web links

Commons : Emanuele Pirro  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Emanuele Pirro at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ First start for Audi at Le Mans