Christian Fittipaldi was born on 18 January 1971 and is a Brazilian former racing driver who has competed in various forms of motorsport including Formula One, Champ Car, and NASCAR.
15 Facts About Christian Fittipaldi
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Christian Fittipaldi was a highly rated young racing driver in the early 1990s, and participated in 43 Formula One Grands Prix for Minardi and Footwork between 1992 and 1994.
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Christian Fittipaldi has had success racing sports prototypes, winning the 24 Hours of Daytona of 2004,2014 and 2018, the 12 Hours of Sebring of 2015, the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen of 2013,2016 and 2017, and has captured two IMSA SportsCar Championships with Action Express Racing during the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
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Christian Fittipaldi is the son of former Grand Prix driver and team owner Wilson Fittipaldi, and the nephew of two-time Formula One Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi.
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Christian Fittipaldi is named after Christian Heins, a Brazilian racing driver who was killed in a wreck during the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Christian Fittipaldi was second in the Brazilian Formula Ford in 1988.
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Christian Fittipaldi is the first Formula One driver to be born in the 1970s.
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In 2016, in an academic paper that reported a mathematical modeling study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine, Christian Fittipaldi was ranked the 11th best Formula One driver of all time.
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Christian Fittipaldi made three appearances in the Busch Series during the 2001 and 2002 seasons.
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Christian Fittipaldi debuted at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2003 with the Bell team, resulting sixth with a Doran-Chevrolet of the class Daytona Prototype.
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In 2006, Christian Fittipaldi disputed fully the Grand-Am series with the team of Eddie Cheever Jr.
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Christian Fittipaldi disputed the first four rounds of the 2008 American Le Mans Series with Andretti Green.
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Christian Fittipaldi then ran in the final five rounds of the Grand-Am series with a Coyote-Pontiac of Cheever's team, earning a second place and a sixth.
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Christian Fittipaldi achieved two wins at Mid-Ohio and the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, two seconds places, a fourth and a fifth, mostly with Barbosa.
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Christian Fittipaldi won the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2014 in the Action Express Corvette DP with Joao Barbosa and Sebastien Bourdais.