Piercarlo Ghinzani

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Piercarlo Ghinzani
Nationality	Italian
World Championship Career
Active years	1981, 1983 - 1989
Team(s)	Osella, Toleman, Ligier, Zakspeed
Races	111
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1981 Belgian Grand Prix
Last race	1989 Australian Grand Prix

Piercarlo Ghinzani (born January 16, 1952) is an Italian former Formula One driver from Italy. He participated in 111 grands prix, debuting on May 17, 1981. He spent much of the 1980s racing for the small Osella team, and he only ever took 1 points finish. Following sporadic F1 appearances in 1981, and racing in Group C as a team mate to Michele Alboreto and Riccardo Patrese Ghinzani's first full season with the Osella team was in '83. Despite achieving no points finishes he was retained for 1984. He suffered burns in a serious crash at the Kyalami circuit, but later that year scored his only career points in the Dallas GP, a race marked by high attrition and crumbling tarmac. Remaining with Osella for 1985, in the latter half of that year Ghinzani was drafted into the Toleman team to partner fellow Italian Teo Fabi. Despite the competitiveness of the car, he was hamstrung by reliability problems and unable to score a proper finish. The following year saw him return to the Osella team, while for 1987 he was contracted to the Ligier team, alongside former Grand Prix winner René Arnoux. The plans for the team to run Alfa Romeo engines were scuppered, however, by Arnoux's scathing pre-season comments, and the team had to hastily adapt their cars to fit Megatron engines. He occasionally ran in the points, notably in Germany, but suffered the indignity of being disqualified at Silverstone. 1988 saw Ghinzani run with Zakspeed, but his final season saw him reunited with Osella. In his final season he only qualified 3 times, and his final Grand prix saw him hit from behind by Nelson Piquet in torrential rain. Ghinzani currently runs an Italian Formula 3 team.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1981	Osella	Osella	Ford	USW	BRA	ARG	SMR	BEL 13	MON DNQ	ESP	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	CAN	LAS		31st	0
1983	Osella	Osella	Ford	BRA DNQ	USW DNQ	FRA DNQ														28th	0
	Osella	Osella	Alfa Romeo				SMR DNQ	MON DNQ	BEL DNQ	USE Ret	CAN DNQ	GBR Ret	DEU Ret	AUT 11	DUT DNQ	ITA Ret	EUR Ret	SAF Ret
1984	Osella	Osella	Alfa Romeo	BRA Ret	SAF WD	BEL Ret	SMR DNQ	FRA 12	MON 7	CAN Ret	USE Ret	USA 5	GBR 9	DEU Ret	AUT Ret	DUT Ret	ITA 7	EUR Ret	POR Ret	19th	2
1985	Osella	Osella	Alfa Romeo	BRA 12	POR 9	SMR NC	MON Ret	CAN Ret	USE Ret	FRA 15	GBR Ret	DEU								27th	0
	Toleman	Toleman	Hart										AUT DNS	DUT Ret	ITA DNS	BEL Ret	EUR Ret	SAF Ret	AUS Ret
1986	Osella	Osella	Alfa Romeo	BRA Ret	ESP Ret	SMR Ret	MON DNQ	BEL Ret	CAN Ret	USE Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	DEU Ret	HUN Ret	AUT 11	ITA Ret	POR Ret	MEX Ret	AUS Ret	27th	0
1987	Ligier	Ligier	Megatron	BRA	SMR Ret	BEL 7	MON 12	USE Ret	FRA Ret	GBR DSQ	DEU Ret	HUN 12	AUT 8	ITA 8	POR Ret	ESP Ret	MEX Ret	JPN 13	AUS Ret	24th	0
1988	Zakspeed	Zakspeed	Zakspeed	BRA DNQ	SMR Ret	MON Ret	MEX 15	CAN 14	USE DNQ	FRA DSQ	GBR DNQ	DEU 14	HUN DNQ	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	POR DNQ	ESP DNQ	JPN DNQ	AUS Ret	33rd	0
1989	Osella	Osella	Ford	BRA DNPQ	ESP DNPQ	MON DNPQ	MEX DNPQ	USA DNPQ	CAN DNPQ	FRA DNPQ	GBR DNPQ	DEU DNPQ	HUN Ret	BEL DNPQ	ITA DNPQ	POR DNPQ	ESP Ret	JPN DNPQ	AUS Ret	-	0

Preceded by Riccardo Patrese

European Formula Three Champion 1977

Succeeded by Jan Lammers