Luca Badoer

In Brazil, Badoer qualified 21st and finished 12th after an incident forced him to pit for a new nose cone.

At Donington, he fell victim to a new rule limiting qualifying to the fastest 24 cars (his time was only good enough for 26th).

The round at Imola saw Badoer race as high as sixth, but finish seventh.

This remained Badoer's best result in Formula One.

In Spain, he was unable to finish and at Monaco, Badoer finished the last of the runners.

Badoer finished 4th overall in the championship taking 33 points.

Luca Badoer (born 25 January 1971) is an Italian former racing driver.

Badoer has raced for the Scuderia Italia, Minardi, Forti and most recently, Ferrari teams.

He raced karts in his youth starting in 1985 and scored two wins.

In 1986, Badoer drove in the 100cc category to become the karting champion of Venice and became national champion the following year.

He won the Italian championship in the 100cc international class in 1988.

In 1989, Badoer moved to single-seater racing, joining the Trivellato team in the Italian Formula Three Championship driving a Dallara/Alfa Romeo.

In 1990 he moved to the MRD Team.

Driving a Ralt RT33 Alfa Romeo, he defeated Alex Zanardi and Roberto Colciago to win the final race of the 1990 season and finished 10th in the championship.

In 1991 he moved to the Supercars team driving a Dallara 391 Alfa Romeo to win four races in succession, but was disqualified after a technicality concerning his tyres.

In 1992 Badoer graduated to the Formula 3000 Championship, where he was selected to drive for Crypton Engineering.

Badoer won four races, including a dominating display at Pergusa where he finished 21 seconds ahead of Emanuele Naspetti.

While beating a field that included Rubens Barrichello and David Coulthard, Badoer became one of only four drivers to win the Formula 3000 title at the first attempt (the others being Stefano Modena in 1987, Christian Fittipaldi in 1991 and Jörg Müller in 1996).

winning four races en route to the title.

Badoer had an offer of a long-term contract with Tyrrell to join the team, starting in the 1993 season.

Badoer rejected this offer and signed with BMS Scuderia Italia instead.

Badoer's debut in Formula One in was mired by BMS Scuderia Italia's uncompetitive Lola chassis, which, despite Ferrari engines, was the slowest car in the championship in terms of qualifying pace.

In South Africa, Badoer retired after 20 laps due to gearbox failure.

After the race, Lola did not travel to the races in Japan and Australia after the team announced they were to merge with Minardi in 1994.

Benetton offered both Alboreto and Badoer tests in their cars to see who would partner Michael Schumacher for 1994 but eventually chose JJ Lehto and Alboreto went to Minardi to line up alongside Pierluigi Martini while Badoer became Minardi's test driver.

Badoer took over Alboreto's seat after the latter retired.

In the underfunded team using a Ford V8 after a deal with Mugen-Honda fell through, he started with a gearbox failure in Brazil with a good qualifying in Argentina.

During the race, Badoer collided with the back of Mika Salo's Tyrrell and hit Rubens Barichello's Jordan later on bringing out the red flag.

Badoer did not make the restart, having no spare chassis.

His best results were eighth places in Canada and Hungary and ninth in Japan.

In addition to his racing duties, Badoer was one of the active test and reserve drivers for Ferrari from 1998 to 2010 and in 2009 stood in for Ferrari's regular race driver Felipe Massa at the European Grand Prix and the Belgian Grand Prix after the Brazilian was injured during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix and his original replacement, Michael Schumacher, pulled out due to injury.

, Badoer holds the record for the most Grand Prix starts (50) and the most race laps completed (2364) without scoring a point, although all of his races before his 2009 comeback came during a period when only the top six finishers scored points.

He nearly achieved a points finish in the 1999 European Grand Prix when a strong drive saw him reach fourth place, but the gearbox on his Minardi failed with 13 laps remaining.

Badoer was born in Montebelluna, Veneto, Italy.

Under the 2010 scoring system, he would have scored 26 points over his career.

At his home race at Monza he was ahead of Christian Fittipaldi and battled for several laps before the Brazilian hit Badoer's car and eventually finished 10th.

Going into Spa, the Lola team was gaining reliability and Badoer finished 13th.

At Estoril, Badoer finished 14th after starting last.

He managed to finish 15th in Canada.

At Magny-Cours, Silverstone, Hockenheim and Budapest, Badoer failed to finish, twice to suspension failure.