Gabriele Tarquini

Gabriele Tarquini
Caption	Gabriele Tarquini in 2006, as a WTCC driver
Nationality	Italian
Years	1987 - 1995
Team(s)	Osella, Coloni, AGS, Fondmetal, Tyrrell
Races	78 (38 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Points	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1987 San Marino Grand Prix
First win
Last win
Last race	1995 European Grand Prix

Gabriele Tarquini (born March 2, 1962) is a racing driver from Italy. He participated in 78 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on May 3, 1987. He scored 1 championship point, and holds the record for the most failed attempts to pre-qualify, mainly because he was a regular in the pre-qualifying era, usually in cars which were so slow as to struggle to qualify.

Formula One

Osella (1987)

He made a debut for Osella at the 1987 San Marino Grand Prix.

Coloni (1988)

He joined Coloni for 1988 and started 8 of the 16 races, often failing to qualify due to the other slow cars all being exempt from pre-qualifying. His best result was 6th in Mexico.

FIRST & AGS (1989 - 1991)

Tarquini signed to drive for the FIRST team, but when their car failed crash tests, he started 1989 without a ride but joined AGS after Philippe Streiff's career-ending testing crash. He came 6th in Mexico and often threatened to score points, running 4th at the Monaco Grand Prix and 6th in the United States. He remained with the team until late 1991, by which time it was totally uncompetitive and on the verge of folding.

Fondmetal (1992)

He moved to Fondmetal, and showed pace for them, scoring a major upset in Belgium by outqualifying Ivan Capelli's Ferrari. This team too soon folded.

Tyrrell (1995)

He was signed up by Tyrrell for the 1995 season and was their test driver. He replaced Ukyo Katayama for the European round as the Japanese driver was injured. But after finishing 14th, Tarquini's Formula One career was over.

Touring Cars

By this time he had switched to Touring Cars, winning the BTCC title in 1994 in an Alfa Romeo featuring controversial aerodynamic enhancements. He started races in both the British and Italian Touring Car Championship in 1995, and was also in the BTCC for David Richards' Honda team in the late 1990s, taking 4 further victories, as well as racing in Germany's STW Cup and the Belgian Procar series, before switching to the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) with considerable success, remaining as it became the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) in 2005. At present he drives a SEAT León in the WTCC.

Complete Formula One results

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Yr	Entrnt	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1987	Osella Squadra Corse	Osella FA1G	Alfa Romeo V8 t/c	BRA	SMR Ret	BEL	MON	USE	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	AUT	ITA	POR	ESP	MEX	JPN	AUS		-	0
1988	Coloni SpA	Coloni FC188	Cosworth V8	BRA Ret	SMR Ret	MON Ret	MEX 14	CAN 8	USE DNQ	FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER DNQ	HUN 13	BEL NC							-	0
		Coloni FC188B													ITA DNQ	POR 11	ESP DNQ	JPN DNQ	AUS DNQ
1989	Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives	AGS JH23B	Cosworth V8	BRA	SMR 8	MON Ret	MEX 6	USA 7	CAN Ret	FRA Ret		GER DNPQ									26th	1
		AGS JH24									GBR DNQ		HUN DNPQ	BEL DNPQ	ITA DNPQ	POR DNPQ	ESP DNPQ	JPN DNPQ	AUS DNPQ
1990	Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives	AGS JH24	Cosworth V8	USA DNPQ	BRA DNPQ																-	0
		AGS JH25				SMR DNPQ	MON DNPQ	CAN DNPQ	MEX DNPQ	FRA DNQ	GBR Ret	GER DNPQ	HUN 13	BEL DNPQ	ITA DNPQ	POR DNPQ	ESP Ret	JPN DNQ	AUS Ret
1991	Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives	AGS JH25	Cosworth V8	USA 8	BRA Ret	SMR DNQ	MON Ret	CAN DQ	MEX DNQ												-	0
		AGS JH25B								FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER DNQ	HUN DNQ	BEL DNPQ
		AGS JH27													ITA DNPQ	POR DNQ
	Fondmetal F1 SpA	Fomet F1															ESP 12	JPN 11	AUS DNPQ
1992	Fondmetal F1 SpA	Fondmetal GR01	Ford V8	RSA Ret	MEX Ret	BRA Ret	ESP Ret	SMR Ret	MON Ret												-	0
		Fondmetal GR02								CAN Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 14	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	POR	JPN	AUS
1995	Nokia Tyrrell Yamaha	Tyrrell 023	Yamaha V10	BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR 14	PAC	JPN	AUS	-	0