39 Facts About Fabrizio Giovanardi

Fabrizio Giovanardi has spent the majority of his career racing for Alfa Romeo and Vauxhall.

Fabrizio Giovanardi stayed in the series in 1988, where he secured two wins at Vallelunga and Enna-Pergusa and finished third overall in the championship, a point behind runner-up Mauro Martini and two points behind season champion Emanuele Naspetti.

Fabrizio Giovanardi returned to the series in 1990, competing in a single round.

In 1989, Fabrizio Giovanardi switched to International Formula 3000 to compete with First Racing and won the race at Vallelunga.

Fabrizio Giovanardi continued in the series in 1990 with First Racing, and again ended up tenth in the championship with a best result of second place at Pau.

Fabrizio Giovanardi dabbled into the Superturismo in the 1991 season, competing in a Peugeot 405.

Fabrizio Giovanardi took five Class S2 victories which set him up for a full campaign in the 1992 season.

Fabrizio Giovanardi moved into the main class of the championship with Peugeot in 1993, finishing in the top three overall twice, and winning five races before moving to Nordauto Engineering Alfa Romeo in 1995.

Fabrizio Giovanardi contested one round of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft at the Norisring, driving an Alfa Romeo 155 for the factory Alfa Corse team.

Fabrizio Giovanardi finished fifth in Italy, and one place lower in Spain, taking five wins over the two series.

Fabrizio Giovanardi won all four races of CET before that serie was cancelled due to lack of cars and he finished second in Superturismo with five victories behind Naspetti.

Fabrizio Giovanardi got the better of Naspetti in 1998, dominating the Italian championship in the new Alfa Romeo 156 with nine victories and eighteen podium on twenty races.

Fabrizio Giovanardi became again Italian champion in 1999, again beating his BMW rival Naspetti in a thrilling last race in Vallelunga; Giovanardi's advantage at the end of the season was only fourteen points after ten rounds.

The Superturismo was promoted to become the Euro STC in 2000, and again Fabrizio Giovanardi won the title with Nordauto.

Fabrizio Giovanardi got his first Formula One test as a test driver for Ferrari on February 1 in 2001, replacing the injured Luca Badoer, who crashed heavily several weeks before.

Unsurprisingly, Fabrizio Giovanardi returned to the wheel of an Alfa in 2004 as part of a four-car team by Autodelta, the new name for Nordauto.

Fabrizio Giovanardi took a single victory at Valencia as he finished sixth in the championship, finishing behind team-mate Gabriele Tarquini, the first such occasion of Fabrizio Giovanardi being beaten by a team-mate.

Fabrizio Giovanardi took a season-high four victories, as he finished as the highest-placed Alfa Romeo driver in the championship, finishing behind the BMWs of champion Andy Priaulx and Dirk Muller.

In 2011, Fabrizio Giovanardi won the European Touring Car Cup at the Salzburgring in Austria.

Fabrizio Giovanardi clinched Hartmann Racing's third consecutive European Touring Car Cup, in a Honda Accord.

In late 2005 Fabrizio Giovanardi tested a Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch for the Triple Eight BTCC team at Pembrey in Wales.

Fabrizio Giovanardi led into the chicane before an outbraking move by Turkington put him alongside at the apex.

Fabrizio Giovanardi then secured a second win in the series at Brands Hatch; finishing his first BTCC campaign in fifth position, passing James Thompson by a single point at the final meeting of the season at Silverstone.

In 2008, Chilton left for Team Dynamics, and thus Fabrizio Giovanardi was joined by new team-mates Matt Neal and Tom Onslow-Cole in a three-car team.

Fabrizio Giovanardi was the driver to beat, and sealed the title convincingly at Brands Hatch, with two races to spare; clinching the title with a non-scoring fourteenth position, due to the result of rival Plato, he could no longer be caught in the title race.

Until the first race at Brands, Fabrizio Giovanardi had been on a run of 39 consecutive points finishes which had begun at round 19 of the 2007 season, at Snetterton in late July.

Fabrizio Giovanardi failed to score a top ten finish in the entire round, after failing to start in the second race and finishing eleventh in the final race.

Fabrizio Giovanardi was in the running for the title, alongside Turkington and Plato.

Indeed, Fabrizio Giovanardi trailed Turkington by thirteen points heading to the final round of the season, held on the Grand Prix circuit at Brands Hatch.

Fabrizio Giovanardi finished in fourth position, and thus finished third in the championship standings.

Fabrizio Giovanardi struggled to find a top-line drive for the 2010 season, but returned to the BTCC at the 2010 season-opening round at Thruxton.

Fabrizio Giovanardi won the first two races of the season before taking a fifth-place finish in race three to secure a seven-point lead from Jason Plato in the championship.

Fabrizio Giovanardi claimed three wins in succession at Paul Ricard and Vallelunga enabling him to finish sixth in the series' Italian championship, while he lies fifth in the international points, with one round left.

In February 2014, Fabrizio Giovanardi was confirmed as Airwaves Racing's first driver for the 2014 British Touring Car Championship season in a Ford Focus ST Mk.

Fabrizio Giovanardi struggled to find the sweet spot in the new NGTC machinery and finished 13th overall with a solitary podium at Thruxton.

In 2010, Fabrizio Giovanardi will be driving for Britek Motorsport in the Armor All Gold Coast 600, sharing the team's Holden Commodore with Karl Reindler.

Fabrizio Giovanardi returned to Touring Car Racing for the first time in 3 Years for a guest appearance in the Italian Touring Car Championship round at Vallelunga.

Fabrizio Giovanardi was confirmed as returning to regular touring car racing in 2018 at the wheel of an Alfa Romeo Giulietta in the FIA World Touring Car Cup.

Fabrizio Giovanardi is married to Patrizia and has one son, Luca.