Enrico Zanarini (born 9 September 1952) is an

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Biography

Zanarini was born in

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on 9 September 1952. He started his

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in driver management in the early 1970s when he was a marketing director for

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in Australia and South Pacific area. After relocating his business interests to

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in 1986, Zanarini decided to pursue sponsorship and driver management full-time, managing drivers in F3 and F3000. In 1994 Zanarini began his nine-year relationship with

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, consolidating his full-time driver management role in 1996 and supporting Irvine's career with Ferrari and Jaguar. In 2003, Zanarini signed Giancarlo Fisichella, assisting him during the winning years with

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and later orchestrating the Italian driver's celebrated move to Ferrari in 2009. During this period, Zanarini expanded into

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management and development of young driver talents by setting up

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(FMS) in partnership with Fisichella. At the end of 2011, Zanarini secured the management of Tonio Liuzzi in F1, thus becoming one of the most experienced driver managers in the sport. Most recently, Zanarini in 2013 signed

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(then-member of

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) and in 2015 he also signed

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.Recently confirmed the third official driver of the Ferrari team for the 2017 season: http://www.circusf1.com/2017/04/ufficiale-giovinazzi-correra-gp-cina-f1-sauber.php http://www.lastampa.it/2017/03/26/sport/formula-1/il-primo-passo-di-giovinazzi-litalia-ritrova-la-f-dopo-sei-anni-7bfJnAyOlMDNAakk6ZyXbN/pagina.html https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/giovinazzi-gets-ferrari-f1-simulator-run-816088/?v=2&s=1&q=enrico+zanarini

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* * http://www.thepaddockmagazine.com/100-influential-people-f1/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20160413073734/http://msportgroup.com/fileadmin/content/mediaroom/pdf/manager.pdf * http://topspeed.gazzetta.it/tag/zanarini/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20160413082933/http://www.msportgroup.com/fileadmin/content/mediaroom/pdf/Autosprint.pdf * https://web.archive.org/web/20160413131335/http://msportgroup.com/fileadmin/content/mediaroom/pdf/GQ.pdf * https://web.archive.org/web/20161025044704/http://msportgroup.com/index.php?id=12 * http://www.thepaddockmagazine.com/how-i-spend-it-enrico-zanarini/ * http://www.kasperskymotorsport.com/kaspersky-news/team-disorders/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Zanarini, Enrico Living people 1952 births

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