Giovanna Amati

Giovanna Amati (born July 20, 1962 in Rome ) is a former Italian car racing driver and the last woman to date to have participated in a qualifying for a Formula 1 race.

Career

Giovanna Amati was born in 1962 as the daughter of a wealthy Italian businessman and, as a friend of Elio de Angelis, gained her first experience in motorsport in a racing school. From 1981 to 1984 she participated in Formula Abarth and was able to win several races there. The Italian competed in the Italian Formula 3 for the next two seasons and was also able to achieve respectable results there. In 1987 she was promoted to the European Formula 3000 . Here she was only able to qualify occasionally and until 1991 achieve no championship points, where she contested the 1989 season in the Japanese Formula 3000. Her staying in this motorsport class for years is probably due to her solvency.

Before the start of the 1992 season , Amati was able to gain her first experience in a Formula 1 racing car thanks to her good relationships with Benetton team boss Flavio Briatore . In the same year she was taken on by the financially troubled Brabham team to stabilize it financially. Since she could not achieve competitive lap times and could not qualify for the race as 30th and last in every qualification, she was replaced at the Spanish Grand Prix by the debutant and later world champion Damon Hill .

In 1993 Amati won the women's championship in the European Porsche Supercup and between 1994 and 1996 achieved several podium places in the Ferrari Challenge . In 1998 and 1999 she drove in the FIA's International Sports Racing Series and also took part in various other sports car races.

Today Amati works as a journalist in her home country Italy and works, among other things, on Formula 1 broadcasts for the TV station Rai Uno .

statistics

Formula 1 results

year	team	chassis	engine	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	WM	Points
1992	Motor Racing Developments Ltd	Brabham BT60B	Judd V10	RSA DNQ	MEX DNQ	BRA DNQ	ESP	SMR	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN	OUT	-	0

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1998	Prototype Technology Group	BMW M3	Craig Carter	Andy Petery	failure	Clutch damage

Web links

• Biography on f1rejects.com (English)