Riccardo Patrese

Riccardo Patrese is a racing driver Italy N born the April 17th 1954 with Padoue (Italy). He is the recordman of the number of disputed GP of Formule 1, with 256 departures (of 1977 with 1993) and traversed a total distance from: 52075 km in race.

Biography

World champion of karting, then champion of Europe of Formula 3, Riccardo Patrese reaches the Formule 1 starting from GP of Monaco 1977, within the American stable Shadow. Author of promising beginnings, it spends the following year at Arrows, a new stable, rested by dissidents from Shadow and where it confirms his beautiful burst of speed, even if it passes to be a pilot a little too impetuous. This reputation is mainly at the origin of its calling into question following the pile-up to the beginning of GP of Italy 1978 and which costs the life to the famous Swedish pilot Ronnie Peterson. Single fact in the history of Formula 1, a group of pilots (with the head of which one finds in particular James Hunt) made pressure near the organizers and obtains that Patrese is starting interdict to the following GP. However, a more pushed analysis of the departure of the GP of Italy will not be long exonerating Patrese of any responsibility, and in pointing finger the role of Hunt, also implied in the accident.

After three not very profitable springtides at Arrows, Patrese is recruited in 1982 by the stable Brabham, to support the new world champion Nelson Piquet. With Monaco, it gains in rocambolesques circumstances the first GP of its career. In 1983, with Turbo the BMW engine finally at the point, it nourishes great ambitions, but in addition to being dominated by Nelson Piquet (which gains a second championship of the world), it is victim of the low reliability of its mounting. He manages all the same to be essential on the GP of South Africa, ultimate sleeve of the season. A victory which does not manage to save one overall missed season, nor to attenuate the enormous disappointment of the GP of San Marino, where in front of its public, it had left to the fault in end of the road whereas it had just taken the head of the test.

Not retained by Brabham, Patrese finds refuge starting from 1984 in the stable Alfa Romeo. But the lack of competitiveness of the Italian single-seaters as their calamitous reliability transform into way of cross the two seasons of the Italian pilot, who turns over to Brabham in 1986, to replace Stake. But gradually given up by her owner - Bernie Ecclestone - the Brabham team is not any more on the same level but at the time of the preceding passage of Riccardo in 1982 - 1983. And the fatal accident of its fellow-member Elio de Angelis in May 1986 completes to plunge the team in the distress. After another season, it passes to Williams in 1988, a transfer which is anticipated besides of a few weeks since Patrese disputes for its new team the ultimate GP of the season 1987, to replace Nigel Mansell, wounded.

In 1988, Patrese is emphasized only seldom at the wheel of restive Williams-Judd (contrary to his team-member Nigel Mansell), but all the team takes again colors starting from 1989 and the arrival of the engine V10 Renault. Even if contrary to its new fellow-member Thierry Boutsen, it does not gain only one race, Patrese makes profitable its great regularity to finish 3rd championship behind untouchable the McLaren - Honda. Then, in 1990, it puts an end to nearly seven years of failure by gaining the GP of San Marino.

Riccardo Patrese carries out its best season in 1991. At the wheel of Williams-Renault which is from now on the fastest car of the plate, it gains two GP, and in spite of the handicap of a rather clear statute of second pilot, shows itself often at least as powerful as its team-member Nigel Mansell, even if it does not manage to mix with the fight for the title. But in 1992, whereas Williams-Renault appears as the absolute weapon, Riccardo Patrese is shown far from its level of the previous year, and undergoes the law of Mansell, which takes down the championship of the world easily.

Pushed outside by the arrival of Alain Prost, Patrese finds refuge in 1993 at Benetton. But the variation of perfomances which separates it from its team-member, the young German pilot Michael Schumacher, quickly makes him lose the confidence of its employer. Without wheel interesting for the following year, and conscious of the fall of its performance level, Patrese prefers to put a term at its career in F1. He refuses a proposal of Frank Williams asking him to replace Ayrton Senna in 1994.

Prize list

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Riccardo Patrese: The Italian hero - Site of fan

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