🇮🇹 Emanuele Pirro

Emanuele Pirro is an established professional who raced single-seater formulae at the highest levels and competed in the professional ranks of Formula 1, International Formula 3000 and Formula 3 Macau between 1984 and 1991. He drove for Dallara in Formula 1 across three seasons from 1989 to 1991. His career included 37 starts in Formula 1, where he finished 14th in the 1991 championship standings.[1]

In International Formula 3000, Pirro won three races across two seasons with Onyx Racing Engineering and took nine podiums from 22 starts, establishing himself as a race winner in the junior formulae. He finished ahead of Ivan Capelli, who won the 1986 series championship, and Pierluigi Martini, both established professionals with extensive Formula 1 careers of their own; against each, Pirro was closely matched across multiple meetings. In Formula 1 itself, he raced against elite company including Mika Häkkinen, the future two-time world champion, whom he beat on three occasions, and Gerhard Berger, an established professional with 210 Formula 1 starts. His single-seater career across all indexed series totalled 69 starts, 3 wins and 10 podiums.[2]