Massimiliano Angelelli was born on 15 December 1966 and is a retired Italian racecar driver.
10 Facts About Max Angelelli
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Max Angelelli won the 2005 and 2017 24 Hours of Daytona and the 2001 Six Hours at the Glen.
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Max Angelelli was co-founder of Wayne Taylor Racing, where he drove until his retirement in 2017.
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Max Angelelli's career began in Italian Formula Alfa Boxer in 1987 and continued for 15 years.
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Max Angelelli is nicknamed the Axe, coined by Leigh Diffey because he has a knack of closing up and "chopping" off seconds behind the leader quickly in a race to set himself up to make a clean pass for the win.
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Max Angelelli was selected to run in the 2006 IROC series in America, along with teammate Wayne Taylor, becoming the first tandem in IROC history.
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Max Angelelli is known for being the safety car driver in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
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Max Angelelli has teamed up with Ricky Taylor, the son of team owner Wayne Taylor.
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Together Jordan and Max Angelelli made a potent combination and won the final Grand-Am Driver's Title, narrowly beating Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas who had won the championship 4 of the previous 5 years.
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In 2017, Max Angelelli announced that he would compete in his last career 24 Hours of Daytona for Wayne Taylor Racing alongside the Taylor brothers and Jeff Gordon.