Emanuele Pirro

Emanuele Pirro
Nationality	Italian
Years	1989 - 1991
Team(s)	Benetton, Scuderia Italia
Races	40 (37 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Points	3
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1989 French Grand Prix
First win
Last win
Last race	1991 Australian Grand Prix
Le Mans Series
Years	1981, 1998 - 2008
Team(s)	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)

Emanuele Pirro (born January 12 1962 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian former Formula One driver and five time Le Mans 24 hour winner.

Pirro at the 1991 United States Grand Prix.

Pirro driving an Audi R10 at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Biography

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 became involved in touring car winning the Macau Guia race twice in 1991 and 1992 at the wheel of a BMW M3 Evolution and the Italian Touring car championship in 1994 and 1995 driving for Audi.

Further success followed in sports car racing, with three wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in three consecutive years (2000 to 2002) partnered with Frank Biela and Tom Kristensen for Audi Sport Team Joest.

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 following year.

Pirro, alongside teammates Dindo Capello and Allan McNish won a historic race at Petit Le Mans in 2008, driving for Audi Sport North America.

Pirro retired from racing at the end of the 2008 season having finished second in the American Le Mans series and will take on an ambassadorial role with Audi in 2009.

Appearances in Video Gaming

In 2007, the video game Race Driver: GRID was released with many, actual race car drivers including Pirro himself. He stars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race featured at the end of every "season" the player finishes. He appears as the main opponent once you reach the LMP1 class of vehicle and drives the Audi R10 TDI.

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	6	Audi Sport North America	Audi R10	LMP1

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	NC	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

Complete Formula One results

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Team
1989	Bene	BRA	SAN	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	SPA	JPN	AUS	Bene
1990	Dall	USA	BRA	SAN	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	SPA	JPN	AUS	Dall
1991	Dall	USA	BRA	SAN	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	SPA	JPN	AUS	Dall