Emanuele Pirro

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Emanuele Pirro Nationality  Italian Formula One World Championship career Active years 1989 - 1991 Teams Benetton, Scuderia Italia Races 40 (37 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podium finishes    0 Career points 3 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 1989 French Grand Prix Last race 1991 Australian Grand Prix

24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1981, 1998 - 2006 Teams Martini Racing, GTC Competition, Audi Sport Joest, Champion Racing Best finish 1st (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007) Class wins 5 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007) Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Emanuele Pirro

Emanuele Pirro, born January 12, 1962 in Rome, Italy, is an Italian auto racing driver.

Pirro started his racing career in karts at the age of 11. At 18, he raced with the Formula Fiat Abarth, then moving on to F300, F2, F3. From 1989 to 1991, he was a Formula One driver and participated in 40 grands prix, first for Benetton and later for Scuderia Italia. He scored a total of 3 championship points. After leaving Formula One, Pirro becamed involved in touring car and sports car racing, driving for Audi Sport Team Joest, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans three consecutive years (2000 to 2002) with Frank Biela and Tom Kristensen, and several races in the American Le Mans Series with Biela.

Emanuele Pirro, Frank Biela and Marco Werner made history by becoming the first drivers to win the Le Mans 24-hour race in a diesel-powered car. Pirro was driving the Audi R10 Diesel when it completed a record 380 laps of the La Sarthe circuit. The team repeated the feat the next year, 2007.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

Yr	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1989	Benetton Formula Ltd	Benetton B188	Cosworth V8	BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA 9	GBR 11									23rd	2
		Benetton B189										GER Ret	HUN 8	BEL 10	ITA Ret	POR Ret	ESP Ret	JPN Ret	AUS 5
1990	Scuderia Italia	BMS Dallara 190	Cosworth V8	USA	BRA	SMR Ret	MON Ret	CAN Ret	MEX Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 11	GER Ret	HUN 10	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	POR 15	ESP Ret	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	-	0
1991	Scuderia Italia	BMS Dallara 191	Judd V10	USA Ret	BRA 11	SMR DNPQ	MON 6	CAN 9	MEX DNPQ	FRA DNPQ	GBR 10	GER 10	HUN Ret	BEL 8	ITA 10	POR Ret	ESP 15	JPN Ret	AUS 7	18th	1

[edit] Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Result	Team	Car	Class
1981	Ret	Martini Racing	Lancia Beta Monte Carlo	Gr.5
1998	Ret	Gulf Team Davidoff / GTC Competition	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1
1999	3	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8R	LMP
2000	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	LMP900
2001	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	LMP900
2002	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8	LMP900
2003	3	Champion Racing	Audi R8	LMP900
2004	3	ADT Champion Racing	Audi R8	LMP1
2005	3	ADT Champion Racing	Audi R8	LMP1
2006	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R10	LMP1
2007	1	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10	LMP1
2008	*	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10	LMP1

• 2008 race not run yet

Sporting positions
Preceded by Masahiro Hasemi	Guia Race winner 1991–1992	Succeeded by Charles Kwan
Preceded by Roberto Ravaglia	Italian Touring Car Champion 1994–1995	Succeeded by Rinaldo Capello
Preceded by Pierluigi Martini Yannick Dalmas Joachim Winkelhock	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2000 with: Frank Biela Tom Kristensen	Succeeded by Frank Biela Tom Kristensen Emanuele Pirro
Preceded by Frank Biela Tom Kristensen Emanuele Pirro	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2001 with: Frank Biela Tom Kristensen	Succeeded by Frank Biela Tom Kristensen Emanuele Pirro
Preceded by Frank Biela Tom Kristensen Emanuele Pirro	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2002 with: Frank Biela Tom Kristensen	Succeeded by Tom Kristensen Rinaldo Capello Guy Smith
Preceded by J.J. Lehto Marco Werner Tom Kristensen	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2006 with: Frank Biela Marco Werner	Succeeded by Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro Marco Werner
Preceded by Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro Marco Werner	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2007 with: Frank Biela Marco Werner	Succeeded by Incumbent