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Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior (born 25 December 1943) is a Brazilian former
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team owner. He participated in 38 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on May 1, 1972, scoring a total of three championship points. He ran the Fittipaldi Formula One team between 1974 and 1982. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.


Family

Born on
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1943, Wilson Fittipaldi Jr is the elder son of prominent motorsports journalist and radio commentator Wilson Sr and his wife Juzy, who had both raced production cars shortly after the
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. Wilson Sr was also responsible for the first Mil Milhas race in 1956, in São Paulo, having been inspired by the 1949
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. Wilson Jr is often referred to as 'Wilsinho' ("Little Wilson", cf.
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's occasional nickname of Rubinho or footballer
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) or 'Tigrão'. He unsurprisingly became a keen motorsports enthusiast from an early age. Wilson Fittipaldi is the older brother of
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champion and double
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world champion
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he remained in the shadow of his younger and more illustrious sibling in top level motorsport. He married Suzy. He is the father of former CART, Formula One and
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and has a daughter, Roberta.


Racing career

Wilson Fittipaldi started racing the
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that he and his brother built in Brazil in the 1960s, before moving on to
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. He made a brief trip to
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in 1966 to race in
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, but the opportunity fell through due to conflicts with the team he drove for in Brazil. He did not return to England until 1970, following his brother's success in
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. That year he raced a Jim Russell Driving School entered
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in British
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, beating
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and works Lotus driver
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, among others, to a victory at a BARC Championship round at
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. At various times during the year he was also competing with future Formula One champions
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. Combined with some other good results, particularly in the latter part of the year, including wins in two non-championship rounds, this enabled him to move up to the European
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championship for 1971. Here he scored several more good results racing alongside his brother for Team Bardahl-Fittipaldi in Lotus and
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chassis including a podium in Hockenheim and 4th places at Rouen and Mantorp Park. These results were sufficient to gain him a deal with the
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Formula One team for the 1972 season as a pay driver. His Formula One career started with a podium at the
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- however, this was a non-championship race and he would not be able to repeat the performance in the world championship. He was a moderately competitive midfield runner for Brabham in 1972 and 1973. He scored no points in the 1972 championship. In 1973 he scored his only Formula One World Championship points with a sixth place in Buenos Aires and a fifth place in Nürburgring. His best qualifying results were 9th in Monaco and 10th at Mosport also in 1973. Wilson, tired of both being a paying driver and being a second driver on the team, without being able to challenge the team's first driver
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under the boss's orders
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, took a break from driving at the beginning of 1974 to set up a Brazilian Formula One team (although have disputed the non-championship Formula One race Grande Premio Presidente Emilio Medici that year with Brabham). The team, initially known as Copersucar-Fittipaldi, did not have great success in their first racing season in 1975. Wilson was the sole driver and managed only six finishes, the highest of which was a 10th, and last, place at the
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at Watkins Glen, and failed to qualify several times. Wilson stepped down from driving to look after the management of the team in 1976 when his brother, Emerson, joined the team from
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. His career total of three points, scored in 1972 and 1973 with Brabham, made him the most successful sibling of a Formula One World Champion until the arrival of
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in
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. Wilson has occasionally returned to competitive driving. In the 1980s and early 1990s he drove in the Brazilian Stock Car championship, winning several rounds. In 1994 and 1995 he was victorious for
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in the classic Mil Milhas race founded by his father, on the former occasion sharing the car with his son Christian. In February 1998 he announced his return to competitive driving in the Brazilian Stock Car championship. In 2000 he was a guest driver for Mercedes-Benz at the
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round of the
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European Truck Racing Cup, finishing 8th and 11th. In 2008, Wilson and Emerson entered the
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, driving a
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for the WB Motorsports team.GloboEsporte.com > Esporte a Motor - NOTÍCIAS - Emerson Fittipaldi vai correr na GT3 Brasil
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Complete Formula One World Championship results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position)


Complete Non-Championship Formula One results

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Formula One records

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and Ricardo Rodríguez, and
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. However, none of the siblings had competed in the same race. The Fittipaldi brothers were the first to compete in the same race, and also the first to score points in the same race: Wilson Fittipaldi only scored points in two Formula One races, (the
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and
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), but on both occasions his younger brother, Emerson, also scored points (a win in Argentina and 6th in Germany). Since the Fittipaldis, another six sets of brothers have competed in Formula One.
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and Jacques Villeneuve Sr.,
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, Teo and
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, and Gary and
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all failed to score points in the same race.
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were the next to do so at the 1997 French Grand Prix. ; As the father of a Formula One driver Fittipaldi's son,
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, made his debut in Formula One in and took his first point at the 1992 Japanese Grand Prix, making Wilson and Christian Fittipaldi the first parent and child to both score points in Formula One. They have since been followed by
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Career in management and business

Although their father was reluctant to fund racing careers for them, the Fittipaldi brothers were able to finance their early racing careers by setting up a successful custom car accessory business while still in their teens, and then businesses building
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cars. There was also a Fittipaldi-Porsche project - a one-off sports car chassis with Porsche mechanicals that the brothers built and raced in 1968. In mid-1974 Wilson had persuaded Brazilian sugar and alcohol conglomerate
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to sponsor his Formula One team, and from 1976 he had retired from driving and to concentrate on the management of the team, which ran with occasional flashes of success in Formula One from 1975 until it shut down in 1982. Since then he has involved himself with the family's business interests, including a
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dealership. He has also carried out some TV work, and been involved in the racing career of his son,
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, managing him from 1996. In 2004 he became technical director of the WB motorsport team in Brazilian V8 stock cars. This led to the younger Fittipaldi testing one of the cars in 2004 before taking part in the championship in 2005 with a different team.


References

;Footnotes ;Sources * ''Wilson Fittipaldi'' http://www.statsf1.com/drivers/fiche.asp?IdPilote=462&LG=1 Accessed 7 March 2006 * ''Hall of Fame – Emerson Fittipaldi'' http://www.formula1.com/teams_and_drivers/hall_of_fame/282/ Accessed 7 March 2006 * ''Fittipaldi Automotive, Wilson Fittipaldi'' http://www.grandprix.com/gpemain.html Accessed 7 March 2006 * ''Mil Milhas results'' http://www.racingcircuits.net/Brazil/_gpMilMilhas.html Accessed 7 March 2006 * ''Ricardo Divila'' http://www.teamdan.com/people/d.html Accessed 7 March 2006 * ''Alfa win in SuperTouring category of 2006 Mil Milhas'' http://www.italiaspeed.com/2006/motorsport/sportscars/other/mil_milhas/2501_report.html Accessed 8 March 2006 * ''Wilson announces return to track'' http://www.theautochannel.com/news/date/19980223/news010199.html Accessed 9 March 2006 * ''Wilson Fittipaldi será o coordenador da WB'' http://www.speedonline.com.br/montatela.php?t=news_especiais1&sql_query=13018 Accessed 9 March 2006 (in Portuguese) * https://web.archive.org/web/20060413230040/http://www.stockcar.com.br/mapa_site/mapa_site.asp All racing and championship results come from: * ''Formula One results for 1972–1976 seasons'' http://www.formula1.com/results/season/1972/ Accessed 7 March 2006 * ''Formula 2 Race Index 1971'' http://www.formula2.net/F271_Index.htm Accessed 7 March 2006 * ''British & Irish F3 results 1970'' http://www.formula2.net/F370_IndexGB.htm Accessed 7 March 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Fittipaldi, Wilson Jr 1943 births Living people Brazilian racing drivers Brazilian Formula One drivers Formula One team owners Brabham Formula One drivers Fittipaldi Formula One drivers European Formula Two Championship drivers British Formula Three Championship drivers Stock Car Brasil drivers Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian people of Russian descent Brazilian people of Polish descent Racing drivers from São Paulo World Sportscar Championship drivers Wilson Fittipaldi Junior