Gabriele Tarquini

Gabriele Tarquini
NationalityItaly Italian
Born (1962-03-02) 2 March 1962 (age 62)
Giulianova, Italy
World Touring Car Championship and
World Touring Car Cup career
Debut season2005
Current teamBRC Racing Team
Car number30
Former teamsLada Sport Rosneft
JAS Motorsport
Lukoil Racing Team
Lukoil-SUNRED
SEAT Sport
Alfa Romeo
Starts271
Wins22
Poles18
Fastest laps25
Best finish1st in 2009, 2018
Previous series
2005-17
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
2000
1999
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1995
1995
1994
1993
19871992
1985–87
1987
1983–84
WTCC
ETCC
ETCC
ETCC
Euro STC
Euro STC
BTCC
BTCC
STW
STW
BTCC
ITC
BTCC
Italian Superturismo
F1
BTCC
Italian Superturismo
F1
International F3000
WTCC
Italian F3
Championship titles
2018
2009
2003
1994
WTCR
WTCC
ETCC
BTCC
Formula One World Championship career
Active years19871992, 1995
TeamsOsella, Coloni, First, AGS, Fondmetal, Tyrrell
Entries78 (38 starts)
Championships0
Wins0
Podiums0
Career points1
Pole positions0
Fastest laps0
First entry1987 San Marino Grand Prix
Last entry1995 European Grand Prix

Gabriele Tarquini (born 2 March 1962) is an Italian former racing driver. He participated in 78 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 3 May 1987. He scored a single championship point, and holds the record for the most failed attempts to qualify. He has subsequently raced successfully in Touring Cars, winning the BTCC in 1994, the ETCC in 2003 the WTCC in 2009 and the WTCR in 2018.

On 22 November 2009 he won the 2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship title at the age of 47 years and 266 days. This made him the oldest ever world champion in an FIA series, breaking Juan Manuel Fangio's record of being FIA Formula One World Drivers' Champion at the age of 46 years and 41 days in 1957.[1][2][3] Tarquini backed up this record by winning the 2018 FIA World Touring Car Cup at the age of 56 years and 259 days.

  1. ^ "TARQUINI: EXPERIENCE AND CONSISTENCY". The Official FIA World Touring Car Championship Website. 23 November 2009. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
  2. ^ "WTCC: Tarquini – A Historic World Champion". TouringCarTimes. 24 November 2009. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Tarquini And SEAT Crowned at Gala". FIA official website. 11 December 2009. Archived from the original on 15 December 2009.