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Piercarlo Ghinzani was born on 16 January, 1952 in Riviera d'Adda, Lombardy, Italy, is an Italian racing driver (born 1952). Discover Piercarlo Ghinzani's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 16 January, 1952
Birthday 16 January
Birthplace Riviera d'Adda, Lombardy, Italy
Nationality Ytaly

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1921

He had qualified 21st, but his race ended when his Osella was hit from behind by the Lotus of triple World Champion Nelson Piquet on lap 19.

Ghinzani holds the record for the most Formula One appearances without qualifying in the top ten.

1952

Piercarlo Ghinzani (born 16 January 1952) is a former racing driver from Italy.

1976

In 1976 he switched to Team Euroracing, and won the European Championship in 1977, giving March, who was supplying the chassis, its first European Formula Three title.

1978

He also had a one-off in Formula 2 in 1978, finishing fourth at Pergusa on a March-BMW.

1979

In 1979 he won the Italian Championship.

1980

He competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times between 1980 and 1983 but failed to finish on all occasions.

1981

Ghinzani debuted in Formula One on 17 May at the 1981 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder, when Enzo Osella asked him to replace the injuried Miguel Angel Guerra.

In Ghinzani was invited to test for Tyrrell.

Despite lapping faster than Michele Alboreto, Danny Sullivan, Chico Serra and Stefan Johansson, Ken Tyrrell deciced to retain Alboreto and Sullivan, and Ghinzani signed with Osella for his first full Formula One season.

Despite achieving no points finishes, Ghinzani stayed with the team for.

After qualifying 20th for the second race of the season at Kyalami in South African, he crashed in the morning warm-up at high speed through the Jukskei Sweep.

His Osella hit the wall and with almost a full fuel load of 220 litres, went up in flames and he suffered burns to his hands and face that kept him out of the race.

1982

In 1982 Ghinzani drove for the Lancia Sports car racing team, winning a Group C World Championship event with Michele Alboreto at Mugello in 1982.

1984

He recovered to score his first and only career points when he finished fifth at the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix in a race marked by high attrition, crumbling tarmac and oppressive heat.

After beginning with Osella, halfway through the season Ghinzani was hired by the Toleman team to partner fellow Italian Teo Fabi.

Although the car at times displayed flashes of competitiveness (Fabi managed to qualify on pole in Germany), it was marred by unreliability problems, and both drivers were forced to retire for the rest of the season.

In he returned to Osella, but his second stint with the team, which was running a turbocharged Alfa Romeo V8 engine, was unsuccessful.

For Ghinzani was contracted to the Ligier team, alongside former Grand Prix winner René Arnoux.

The team planned to run the new turbocharged 4 cylinder Alfa Romeo engines, but those plans were scuppered by Arnoux's scathing pre-season comments that likened the engine to dog food, leading Alfa's parent company Fiat to pull the plug on the engine project.

This forced the team to hastily adapt their cars to fit Megatron engines.

(The Megatron was actually the BMW engine used by Brabham and previously by Arrows and Benetton before BMW retired from the sport).

However, while both the Alfa and Megatron were 4-cylinder engines, their respective plumbing was completely different, forcing the team to miss the opening race of the season in Brazil while the rear suspension was re-designed to fit the new engine.

Ghinzani occasionally ran in the points for Ligier, notably in Germany, before being forced to retire.

During qualifying for the British Grand Prix, Ghinzani's Ligier ran out of fuel in front of the pits.

His mechanics jumped the pit wall, refuelled him on the track and then push-started him, a clear violation of the rules leading to Ghinzani's exclusion from the remainder of the event.

1988

Despite being one of the few teams to use turbo powered engines in 1988, Ghinzani and his teammate, young German Bernd Schneider, struggled to qualify for races and were often slower than the atmospheric cars.

Ghinzani's final Formula One season was, where he once again raced with Osella as teammate to young Italian driver Nicola Larini.

1989

Ghinzani announced his decision to retire from Grand Prix racing before official practice of the final race of the 1989 season in Australia.

1992

He currently manages his own racing team, Team Ghinzani, which was created in 1992 and is currently involved in several Formula Three championships.

Ghinzani started his racing career in Formula Ford.

He then graduated to Formula Three, racing with the Allegrini Team.

In 1992 Ghinzani founded Team Ghinzani.

2000

The team Ghinzani have raced in Italian, German and Formula 3 Euro Series since 2000 and also entered Italian Formula 3000/Euro Formula 3000 between 1999 and 2002.

2005

Since 2005–06 season, the outfit has managed A1 Team Italy in collaboration with Arco Motorsport, in the A1 Grand Prix series.

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† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.

2014

His best finish for the year was 14th in the German Grand Prix at a wet Hockenheim.

2019

Before the incident, the Italian had set a time which would have put him 19th on the grid.

In Ghinzani drove for the German Zakspeed team, which ran its own 4 cylinder turbo engine, though generally without success.