Gabriele Tarquini (born 2 March 1962) is an Italian
racing driver. He participated in 78
Formula One
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Grands Prix, debuting on May 3, 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
The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as ...
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. Tarquini backed up this record by winning the
2018 FIA World Touring Car Cup at the age of 56 years and 259 days.
Formula One
Tarquini began karting in 1976. By 1985 he was driving in
Formula 3000
Formula 3000 (F3000) was a type of open wheel, single seater formula racing, occupying the tier immediately below Formula One and above Formula Three. It was so named because the cars were powered by 3.0 L engines.
Formula 3000 championships
...
, spending three seasons with underfunded outfits. His best result was 2nd at Imola in 1987, by which time he had already made his Grand Prix debut in a one-off drive for
Osella
Osella is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former Formula One team. They participated in 132 Grands Prix between 1980 and 1990. They achieved two points finishes and scored five championship points.
Early days
Named after its founder V ...
at the
1987 San Marino Grand Prix
The 1987 San Marino Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 3 May 1987 at the Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Imola. It was the second race of the 1987 Formula One season. It was the seventh San Marino Grand Prix and it was held over 59 laps of ...
.
He joined
Coloni's Grand Prix team for 1988, having driven for them in F3000 in 1986. The season saw a prequalifying system being put in place as there were 31 entrants for a maximum 30 places in qualifying proper. As such, the slowest of the new entrants for the season (Coloni, Rial, Dallara and EuroBrun) would be eliminated from proceedings after the Friday morning session regardless of their overall position - Tarquini failed to prequalify several times despite often being faster than some of the exempt entrants (such as the Osella and Zakspeed cars). He drew good notices for his performance overall, however - his 8th place at the
Canadian Grand Prix
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would stand as the team's best ever result and his eight starts the most ever garnered by a Coloni driver.
Tarquini signed to drive for the
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team (again a former employer in F3000) and drove for them at the
Formula One Indoor Trophy, but when their car failed crash tests he started 1989 without a ride. Following
Philippe Streiff
Philippe Streiff (26 June 1955 – 23 December 2022) was a French racing driver. He participated in 55 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 21 October 1984. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 11 championship points.
A pre-season tes ...
's career-ending pre-season testing crash, Tarquini joined
Joachim Winkelhock
Joachim Winkelhock (born 24 October 1960) is a German motor racing driver.
The younger brother of the late Manfred Winkelhock, Winkelhock was born in Waiblingen, near Stuttgart. The youngest brother, Thomas Winkelhock, and Manfred's son Mark ...
in the
AGS team from the
second round of the series. There he finished a fine 8th on the road, being promoted to 6th after the exclusion of
Thierry Boutsen
Thierry Marc Boutsen (born 13 July 1957) is a Belgian former racing driver who raced for the Arrows, Benetton, Williams, Ligier and Jordan teams in Formula One. He competed in 164 World Championship Grands Prix (163 starts), winning three rac ...
and
Alex Caffi
Alessandro "Alex" Caffi (born 18 March 1964) is an Italian racing driver, former Formula One driver, and team owner. He participated in 75 Grands Prix, debuting on 7 September 1986. In 2006 he raced in the inaugural season of the Grand Prix Mas ...
. He was then one of the stars of the weekend in
Monaco
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, threatening to qualify in the top 6 before ending up 13th on the grid. In the race he advanced to a strong 4th before being sidelined by an electrical problem. At the following
Mexican Grand Prix
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he finished 6th, though the team's joy was tempered after
Williams and
Scuderia Italia
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successfully appealed against their Imola disqualification and Tarquini lost his point. More bad luck followed at
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where Tarquini was holding 6th despite technical problems before Boutsen passed him on the final lap. At the wet
Canadian Grand Prix
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Tarquini again ran well until being shoved off the track by
René Arnoux
René Alexandre Arnoux (; born 4 July 1948) is a French former racing driver who competed in 12 Formula One seasons (1978 to 1989). He participated in 165 World Championship Grands Prix (149 starts) winning seven of them, achieving 22 podium fi ...
(who eventually went on to finish 5th). The series then moved to faster tracks where the AGS was less competitive and the results of others meant Tarquini's entry (exempt for the first half of the season thanks to Streiff's efforts in 1988) would have to prequalify for the second half of the season.
The expanding entry list meant prequalifying was very different from 1988, consisting of an hour-long free-for-all session on Friday morning between the less successful cars. Featuring the
Larrousse
Larrousse Formula One was a motorsports racing team founded in 1987 by Didier Calmels and former racer Gérard Larrousse, originally under the name Larrousse & Calmels. It was based in Antony, in the southern suburbs of Paris. It was renamed La ...
cars of
Michele Alboreto
Michele Alboreto (; 23 December 1956 – 25 April 2001) was an Italian racing driver. He was runner up to Alain Prost in the 1985 Formula One World Championship, as well as winning the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2001 12 Hours of Sebring spo ...
and
Philippe Alliot
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Early career
Prior to his career in Formula One he competed during 1976 and 19 ...
,
Roberto Moreno
Roberto Pupo Moreno (born 11 February 1959), usually known as Roberto Moreno and also as Pupo Moreno, is a Brazilian former racing driver. He participated in 75 Formula One Grands Prix, achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 15 championship p ...
's Coloni, the Osellas of
Nicola Larini
Nicola Larini (born 19 March 1964) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 75 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 6 September 1987. He finished second in the tragic 1994 San Marino Grand Prix on a substitute outing for Ferrari, but only s ...
and
Piercarlo Ghinzani
Piercarlo Ghinzani (born 16 January 1952) is a former racing driver from Italy. He currently manages his own racing team, Team Ghinzani, which was created in 1992 and is currently involved in several Formula Three championships.
Early career
Be ...
and the
Onyx
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cars of
Stefan Johansson and
Bertrand Gachot among others with only the four fastest going through both Tarquini and new teammate
Yannick Dalmas
Yannick Dalmas (born 28 July 1961) is a former racing driver from France. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times (in 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1999), each with different teams. Prior to this, he participated in 49 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting ...
struggled and Tarquini would not qualify again that year.
AGS attempted to move to larger premises for 1990 but a lack of resources and the late arrival of the JH25 left Tarquini and Dalmas again struggling to get past prequalifying, Tarquini only making it into four races (finishing just once - 13th in the
Hungarian Grand Prix
The Hungarian Grand Prix ( hu, Magyar Nagydíj) is a motor racing event held annually in Mogyoród. Since 1986, the race has been a round of the FIA Formula One World Championship.
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The first Hungarian Grand Prix was held on 21 ...
), his early 1989 form long forgotten by most. The team were under even more severe financial constraints for 1991, though they would initially at least avoid prequalifying. Tarquini made it through into three races, finishing a worthy 8th in the season opener at
Phoenix
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but financial constraints meant after
Monaco
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the AGS didn't make the grid again.
Late in the season the cash-strapped team sold his contract to
Gabriele Rumi
Gabriele Rumi (4 September 1939 – 21 May 2001) was an Italian Formula One team owner. He was born in Palazzolo sull'Oglio.
Career Early career
Rumi's grandfather Gabriele Rumi opened an iron foundry in Brescia. Rumi took over the running of ...
's ambitious
Fondmetal
Fondmetal S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of alloy wheels, founded in 1972 by Gabriele Rumi.
A Formula One constructor of the same name, also owned by Rumi, competed in the and seasons, scoring no championship points. The company also spon ...
outfit in time for the
Spanish Grand Prix
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, soon forming a good relationship with the team. He was signed for a full year in 1992, showing some good speed in the neat but underdeveloped
Fondmetal GR02
The Fondmetal GR02 was a Formula One racing car designed by Sergio Rinland and his Astauto studio for the 1992 Formula One season. Built to replace the Fondmetal GR01, as Fondmetal's team boss Gabriele Rumi had never been impressed by that ca ...
chassis. However, his car only finished once (14th at
Silverstone, hindered by
clutch problems) and despite some fine qualifying efforts (including outqualifying
Ivan Capelli
Ivan Franco Capelli (born 24 May 1963) is an Italian former Formula One driver. He participated in 98 Grands Prix, debuting on 6 October 1985. He achieved three podiums, and scored a total of 31 championship points. From 1998 until 2017 he was a ...
's
Ferrari in
Belgium
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) the team struggled to find funding, folding after the following
Italian Grand Prix
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and leaving Tarquini out of a drive.
Despite being firmly involved in his successful touring cars career and 33 years old, Tarquini was signed up by
Tyrrell for the
1995 season as their test driver thanks to the presence of
Fondmetal
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as a sponsor. He replaced
Ukyo Katayama
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for the
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round as the Japanese driver was injured from his start line accident in the
previous race. Out of practice with single seaters (having done very little actual testing due to the team's financial constraints) he finished 14th, six laps down on winner
Michael Schumacher
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. It was his final Grand Prix.
Tarquini failed to pre-qualify on a record 25 occasions (out of a total of 40 failures to qualify), mainly because he was a regular in the pre-qualifying era, usually in cars which were so slow as to struggle to qualify. Despite this record many consider him to have been a talented driver stuck with uncompetitive machinery (much like contemporary
Roberto Moreno
Roberto Pupo Moreno (born 11 February 1959), usually known as Roberto Moreno and also as Pupo Moreno, is a Brazilian former racing driver. He participated in 75 Formula One Grands Prix, achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 15 championship p ...
).
Touring Cars
Italian Superturismo 1993
Alfa Romeo (1993)
With the creation of D2 series in 1993, Tarquini passed to Alfa Romeo becoming their top driver and finishing third in
Italian Superturismo behind Ravaglia and Giovanardi.
BTCC 1994/1995
Alfa Romeo (1994-1995)
![Gabriele Tarquini Alfa Romeo 155 BTCC Truxton 4th April 1994](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Gabriele_Tarquini_Alfa_Romeo_155_BTCC_Truxton_4th_April_1994.jpg)
The following year Tarquini moved to the
British Touring Car Championship
The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as ...
, winning the title at his first attempt in an
Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. () is an Italian luxury car manufacturer and a subsidiary of Stellantis. The company was founded on 24 June 1910, in Milan, Italy. "Alfa" is an acronym of its founding name, "Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili." "A ...
featuring controversial aerodynamic enhancements. In 1995
Alfa Corse
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Alfa Corse was officially formed in the beginning of 1938, after th ...
decided to move him back to
Italian Superturismo Championship
The Italian Superturismo Championship (Campionato Italiano Superturismo) is Italy's national motorsport series for touring cars. It was established in 1987 and its drivers' title has been held by such notable drivers as Le Mans winner Emanuele Pi ...
but after 2 victories, 4 third place and 6 DNF, Tarquini left the series and joined to
Prodrive
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to help Alfa Romeo to achieve better results in BTCC.
ITC 1996
Alfa Romeo (1996)
In 1996 Tarquini raced in Class 1 Touring Cars with Alfa Romeo in
ITC, where he achieved best results of 1 victory and 1 second place.
BTCC 1997
Honda (1997)
With the end of D1 Class, Tarquini left Alfa Romeo and signed a 5 year contract with Honda where he raced in BTCC again with Prodrive. The first season with Honda saw him finishing 6th in the general standings with 1 victory, 1 second and 3 third places.
STW 1998/1999
Honda (1998-1999)
In 1998 and 1999 Tarquini raced in Germany with JAS Motorsport in
STW Cup where he got 2 victories and several podium.
BTCC 2000
Honda (2000)
After 2 years in Germany, Tarquini raced for the third time in BTCC.
Euro STC 2001
Honda (2001)
In his last season with Honda he raced in
Euro STC where he finished third behind the 2 Alfa Romeo of Giovanardi and Larini although he got 9 victories.
ETCC 2003/2004
After spending 2002 without a car, in 2003 he came back to Alfa Romeo where he raced in the
ETCC and he won the title at the first attempt as it happened 9 years before in BTCC. In 2004 for the last season of ETCC he was again the best of Alfa's driver and he finished third behind the 2 BMW of Priaulx and Dirk Muller.
WTCC
Alfa Romeo (2005)
He remained with Alfa Romeo as the ETCC became the
World Touring Car Championship
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(WTCC) in 2005. He finished seventh overall, with two victories.
SEAT Sport (2006–2009)
In November 2005, Tarquini was confirmed as one of six drivers at
SEAT Sport
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for 2006. He finished fifth in the championship that year with one win. He finished 8th in the standings in 2007, once again winning just one race. 2008 saw considerable improvement for Tarquini as he finished runner-up in the championship to
Yvan Muller
Yvan Muller (born 16 August 1969 in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin) is a French auto racing driver most noted for success in touring car racing. He is a four-time World Touring Car Champion, winning the title in 2008 with SEAT, in 2010 and 2011 with Chevro ...
winning three races. His biggest success of his career came in 2009 when he won the WTCC championship at the last race of the year in Macau.
Sunred (2010–2011)
![Gabriele Tarquini 2011 WTCC Race of Japan (Practice 1)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Gabriele_Tarquini_2011_WTCC_Race_of_Japan_%28Practice_1%29.jpg)
SEAT withdrew from the WTCC for 2010, but provided funding to introduce the new semi-works
SR-Sport
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Racing History
While in the past Sunred had participated in ...
team, with whom Tarquini attempted to retain his crown. He scored five wins during the season to finish runner-up to ex-SEAT Sport teammate
Yvan Muller
Yvan Muller (born 16 August 1969 in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin) is a French auto racing driver most noted for success in touring car racing. He is a four-time World Touring Car Champion, winning the title in 2008 with SEAT, in 2010 and 2011 with Chevro ...
in the drivers standings. This was after four victories, plus an inherited victory in Belgium from Jordi Gene after Gene's disqualification. His crash in Japan race two ended his title hopes.
In 2011, Tarquini drove for the
Lukoil-
SUNRED
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team alongside
Aleksei Dudukalo
Aleksey Nikolayevich Dudukalo ( rus, Алексе́й Никола́евич Дудука́ло, p=ɐlʲɪˈksej nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ dʊdʊˈkalə; born 6 October 1976, in Moscow) is a Russian auto racing driver. He raced in the World Touring ...
. He started the year with the SEAT 2.0 TDI engine but switched to the SUNRED 1.6T for
Brno onwards. He finished the season 5th in the standings with just one win in a year dominated by the
Chevrolet RML team.
Lukoil Racing (2012)
In January 2012 it was confirmed that Tarquini would drive for
Lukoil Racing
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in a
SEAT León powered by the new
SEAT Sport
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turbocharged engine. His teammate will once again be
Aleksei Dudukalo
Aleksey Nikolayevich Dudukalo ( rus, Алексе́й Никола́евич Дудука́ло, p=ɐlʲɪˈksej nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ dʊdʊˈkalə; born 6 October 1976, in Moscow) is a Russian auto racing driver. He raced in the World Touring ...
. He started from pole position at the first race of the season in Italy but finished third behind
Yvan Muller
Yvan Muller (born 16 August 1969 in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin) is a French auto racing driver most noted for success in touring car racing. He is a four-time World Touring Car Champion, winning the title in 2008 with SEAT, in 2010 and 2011 with Chevro ...
and
Rob Huff
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in race one, he retired from the second race. Contact with Huff in race two in
Portugal
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left him 19th with damage although no penalties were applied.
![Gabriele Tarquini 2014 WTCC Race of Japan (Race 1 outlap)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Gabriele_Tarquini_2014_WTCC_Race_of_Japan_%28Race_1_outlap%29.jpg)
Honda (2013–2015)
In July 2012, it was confirmed that Tarquini would drive a factory supported
Honda Civic run by the returning JAS Motorsport team, alongside
Tiago Monteiro
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in 2013. He qualified fifth for the season opening
Race of Italy but was given a five–place grid penalty for race one having tapped
René Münnich
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into a spin during qualifying. He finished race one in fourth and race two in third. He gave the Honda team its first pole position in the WTCC at the
Race of Morocco. He finished second in race one but retired from race two when he lost control over one of the kerbs and collided with
Alex MacDowall
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Racing career
Early career
MacDowall was born in Car ...
.
Lada (2016)
![Lada Vesta WTCC (Lada Sport), Paul Ricard, 2016](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Lada_Vesta_WTCC_%28Lada_Sport%29%2C_Paul_Ricard%2C_2016.jpg)
In his last season of WTCC he moved to the uncompetitive Lada team where he was able to score 2 victories.
WTCR
Hyundai (2018-2019)
After spending the entire 2017 to develop the new Hyundai I30N, Tarquini raced in the new WTCR after the fusion between WTCC and Internation TCR. The 2018 saw him again protagonist and after an incredible battle with Muller he won his fourth title after BTCC, ETCC and WTCC.
In a poll conducted by Motorsport Magazine in 2005, Tarquini was voted the 11th greatest touring car driver ever.
Racing record
Career summary
† As Tarquini was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
Complete International Formula 3000 results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap.)
† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
Complete Formula One results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap.)
† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.
Complete British Touring Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded 1996 onwards all races) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) (
* signifies that driver lead feature race for at least one lap – 1 point given 1998 onwards)
‡ Retired before second start of race
Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete International Touring Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete European Touring Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete World Touring Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete World Touring Car Cup results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete Scandinavian Touring Car Championship results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete TCR International Series results
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
‡ As Tarquini was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
References
External links
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1962 births
Living people
Italian racing drivers
Italian Formula One drivers
AGS Formula One drivers
Coloni Formula One drivers
Osella Formula One drivers
FIRST Racing Formula One drivers
Fondmetal Formula One drivers
Tyrrell Formula One drivers
British Touring Car Championship drivers
British Touring Car Championship Champions
World Touring Car Championship drivers
World Touring Car Champions
Italian Formula Three Championship drivers
International Formula 3000 drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
TC 2000 Championship drivers
European Touring Car Championship drivers
World Sportscar Championship drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
People from Giulianova
World Touring Car Cup drivers
24H Series drivers
Sportspeople from the Province of Teramo
Karting World Championship drivers
Prema Powerteam drivers