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Giancarlo Fisichella
Giancarlo Fisichella came to F1 with much potential - as one of a new breed of young guns to enter the top level - and many people had him marked him down as a future world champion. Despite opportunities, however, he never really realised his full potential.
The young Giancarlo had a reputation as a man to watch courtesy of his impressive karting career. A world champion in the best breeding ground of all, he finally decided to graduate to cars in 1992, entering the hotly contested Italian Formula Three series.
He soon became just the third driver to win a race in the Italian series in his maiden season, going on to finish eighth overall at the end of the year. Two further years in the same championship saw him edge his way up the table, finishing second in 1993 before finally clinching the title the following year, alongside 10 wins, 11 pole positions and victory in the prestigious Monaco GP support race.
The championship success attracted the attentions of the Minardi team, which promptly offered him a testing contract for the following season. In order to keep his hand in between the sporadic tests, however, Fisichella accepted a drive in the increasingly popular International Touring car series with Alfa Romeo.
Although the saloon series did not
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Giancarlo Fisichella wins Australian GP
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-06 14:53
Fisichella finished 57 laps on the 3.295-mile Albert Park circuit in 1 hour, 24 minutes, 17.336 seconds in his Renault. Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello finished second, 5.55 seconds back, and Fisichella's Renault teammate, Fernando Alonso, was third.
Schumacher, the German star who won 13 races last year en route to his seventh world championship, crashed out with 15 laps left after starting in the back row.
The 32-year-old Fisichella's only previous F1 win in 141 races was at the controversial 2003 Brazilian GP, when he wasn't awarded the victory for five days until it was discovered he was ahead when the race was stopped.
"It's my first time to celebrate the victory on the podium," Fisichella said. "It's been fantastic, a great experience — I want to do it again."
On Sunday, the Italian punched the air from inside his cockpit as he crossed the finish line. He stood up in the car as his crew pushed his blue and yellow racer to the garage, pumpi