- Paolo Barilla
Former F1 driver
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Name = Paolo Barilla
Nationality = flagicon|Italy Italian
Years = F1|1989 - F1|1990
Team(s) =Minardi
Races = 15 (9 starts)
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Points = 0
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First race =1989 Japanese Grand Prix
First win =
Last win =
Last race =1990 Spanish Grand Prix Paolo Barilla (born
20 April 1961 inMilan ,Italy ) is a formerFormula One driver who raced for theMinardi team. Paolo is one of the heirs of the vast Barilla pasta empire.Barilla started racing in 1975 and won the Italian 100cc
karting title in 1976. In 1980 he enteredFormula Fiat Abarth , and moved up toFormula 3 in 1981, where he won some races and finished third in the Italian Championship. Barilla then enteredFormula 2 in 1982 with Minardi, but between 1983 and 1988 he concentrated insports car racing , winning24 Hours of Le Mans in 1985, among other victories, in theJoest Racing Porsche 956 .In 1987 Barilla returned to single-seaters and raced in the Japanse
Formula 3000 Championship, before returning to Minardi in 1989 for a test. This test gave him the chance to replacePierluigi Martini atSuzuka that year and afterwards was signed to drive for the team in 1990. Barilla wasn't quick enough to qualify regularly, and was replaced before the end of the year byGianni Morbidelli .Barilla then retired from racing and joined his family's businesses, but has remained connected to motorsports due to Barilla's sponsorship of
Alex Zanardi .Complete Formula One results
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External links
* [http://www.f1rejects.com/drivers/barilla/index.html Profile on F1 Rejects]
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