Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi is an Italian professional racing driver and paracyclist.
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71 Facts About Alessandro Zanardi
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Alessandro Zanardi won the CART championship in 1997 and 1998, and took 15 wins in the series.
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Alessandro Zanardi raced in Formula One from 1991 to 1994 and again in 1999; his best result was a sixth-place finish in the 1993 Brazilian GP.
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Alessandro Zanardi returned to CART in 2001, but a major crash in the 2001 American Memorial resulted in the amputation of his legs.
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In September 2011, Alessandro Zanardi won his first senior international handcycling medal, the silver medal in the H4 category time trial at the UCI World Road Para-Cycling Championships.
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On 19 June 2020, Alessandro Zanardi was involved in a serious road accident while competing in the Obiettivo tricolore handcycling race, near Siena.
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Alessandro Zanardi's family moved to the town of Castel Maggiore on the city's outskirts when he was four years of age.
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Alessandro Zanardi's sister Cristina was a promising swimmer prior to her death in an automobile collision in 1979.
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Alessandro Zanardi built his kart from the wheels of a dustbin and pipes from his father's work.
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In 1989, Alessandro Zanardi took two pole positions and three podiums despite his team's switching to unleaded fuel, which reduced his car's engine power.
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Alessandro Zanardi won his F3000 debut race, scoring two more wins that season and finishing second in the championship.
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In 1992 Alessandro Zanardi had to be content with guest drives for Minardi, replacing the injured Christian Fittipaldi.
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Alessandro Zanardi later stated that in hindsight, he should have stayed on as the Benetton test driver as he would likely have been given a full-time drive for 1994 following Riccardo Patrese's retirement, where he would have been in a race-winning car alongside that year's world champion Michael Schumacher.
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Alessandro Zanardi compared reasonably to teammate Johnny Herbert in 1993 and was important in fine-tuning the team's active suspension system, scoring his only F1 point at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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Alessandro Zanardi was injured when an elderly motorist collided with his bicycle, knocking him down and running over Zanardi's left foot.
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Alessandro Zanardi's season ended prematurely after he sustained a concussion as a result of a crash in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix.
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Still recovering, Alessandro Zanardi missed the beginning of the 1994 season while he was working as a test driver for Lotus, but he returned in the Spanish Grand Prix, replacing Pedro Lamy, who had been injured in a testing crash.
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However, Lotus struggled in its final season in F1 and Alessandro Zanardi failed to score a single point or qualify higher than 13th.
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Alessandro Zanardi's first meeting was at a Porsche Supercup event at Imola.
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Alessandro Zanardi later raced at a four-hour event at Donington Park, where he and Alex Portman retired with eight minutes remaining despite leading by over a lap.
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Alessandro Zanardi felt that finding a race seat would be easy with Formula One experience, but no teams drew any interest.
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Alessandro Zanardi rapidly became one of the series' most popular drivers.
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Alessandro Zanardi took the pole for his second race, although his first win didn't come until mid-season.
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Alessandro Zanardi improved his form in CART in 1997, winning five of seventeen races, including three in a row and four of the five rounds held in the mid to late portion of the season en route to winning the Drivers' Championship.
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Williams visited Alessandro Zanardi, who signed a three-year contract in July 1998 which was publicly confirmed in September of that year.
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Alessandro Zanardi began testing at the end of that year alongside test driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
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Alessandro Zanardi showed promise in the warm-up with 6th but the race saw him crash out on lap 21.
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Alessandro Zanardi started 16th and retired with a differential failure.
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Alessandro Zanardi's car was suffering electronic issues and ran a steady 7th in the closing stages and ran over oil from Johnny Herbert's Stewart at the Villeneuve chicane and spun into the gravel.
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Alessandro Zanardi overtook David Coulthard and Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the start.
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Alessandro Zanardi performed well at the start but had to take avoiding action when Alexander Wurz clipped Pedro Diniz.
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The penultimate round in Malaysia had seen Alessandro Zanardi start from 16th with a first-lap collision that damaged his front rim with a pit-stop preventing better progress.
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Alessandro Zanardi later ran wide, which caused damage to the car radiators and prompted another pit-stop with Zanardi finishing 10th.
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Alessandro Zanardi tested for Mo Nunn in July at Sebring driving for 246 laps and opted to sign to the team for 2001.
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Carpentier was able to avoid him, but Alex Tagliani, who was just behind Carpentier at the time, was not, and Alessandro Zanardi's car was blindsided from behind the front wheel, severing the nose of the car.
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Alessandro Zanardi lost both legs in the impact and nearly three-quarters of his blood volume, though rapid medical intervention saved his life.
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Alessandro Zanardi was fitted with two prosthetic limbs and began rehabilitating.
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Dissatisfied with the limitations of legs available commercially, Alessandro Zanardi designed and built his own custom legs, to allow him to compare the weight and stiffness of various feet to find the ones most suitable for racing.
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In 2003, Alessandro Zanardi was ready to take to the track again, with the aid of hand-operated brake and accelerator controls.
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On 24 August 2005, Alessandro Zanardi won his first world series race, celebrating with a series of trademark "donuts".
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Alessandro Zanardi returned to a Formula One car in late November 2006 at a testing session for BMW Sauber in Valencia, Spain.
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The Alessandro Zanardi chassis has been raced in the European KF1 Championship and World Championship as well as in many other racing events worldwide.
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In November 2012, Alessandro Zanardi tested a BMW DTM touring car, completing 32 laps of the Nurburgring.
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Alessandro Zanardi later said that the test had rekindled his interest in motor racing, and in January 2014, it was announced that he would return to motorsport in the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series season, racing a BMW Z4 GT3 for Ravaglia's ROAL Motorsport team.
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Alessandro Zanardi returned to American motor racing by entering the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona that January.
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Alessandro Zanardi has since taken up handcycling in earnest, and competed at the Para-Cycling Road World Championships in 2009.
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Alessandro Zanardi stated that he was targeting a place in the Italian team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
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In 2011, at his fourth attempt, Alessandro Zanardi won the New York City Marathon in his handcycling class.
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On 5 September 2012, Alessandro Zanardi won a gold medal in the men's road time trial H4 at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, finishing 27.
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The bike used by Alessandro Zanardi was constructed by Italian racecar constructor Dallara.
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Alessandro Zanardi was voted the best male athlete of the 2012 Paralympics.
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Alessandro Zanardi used a handbike for the cycling section and a wheelchair for the running section.
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On 22 September 2018, in a triathlon competition in Cervia, Italy, Alessandro Zanardi smashed the Ironman world record in the category of disabled people, with a time of 8:26'6.
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On 19 June 2020, Alessandro Zanardi was involved in a serious accident while competing in the Obiettivo tricolore Italian national road race for paralympic athletes.
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Alessandro Zanardi was treated in intensive care for serious head injuries.
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In September 2020, it was reported that Alessandro Zanardi was showing signs of interaction but that his condition remained "serious, " and that he had undergone several surgeries to reconstruct his face.
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In November 2020, Alessandro Zanardi was transferred to a hospital in Padua, which was closer to his home to continue his recovery.
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In December 2020, it was reported that Alessandro Zanardi regained his sight and hearing; he could respond non-verbally to questions and shake hands on demand.
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In January 2021, it was reported that Alessandro Zanardi was able to speak again following a waking surgery.
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Alessandro Zanardi has co-written two books based on his life, Alex Zanardi: My Story with Gianluca Gasparini and Alex Zanardi: My Sweetest Victory.
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Alessandro Zanardi wrote the opening chapters for the books of Steve Olvey, the former CART medical director, including, Rapid Response: My Inside Story as a Motor Racing Life Saver.
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Alessandro Zanardi was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2013 and will be inducted into Long Beach Motorsports walk of fame in 2022.
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In July 2022 Alessandro Zanardi was hospitalized after a fire broke out at his home in Italy due to a defect on his home's solar panels which damaged medical equipment he used while recovering from his hand-cycling crash, he was later released back to his home 76 days later in September.
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