Emerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi (born 12 December 1946) is a semi-retired Brazilian automobile racing driver. He won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once. He made his Formula One debut for Team Lotus as a third driver at the 1970 British Grand Prix. He enjoyed considerable success with Lotus, winning the World Drivers’ Championship in 1972 at the age of 25. In 2008, he was one of only three people in history to have a Corvette production car named in his honor.
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Emerson Fittipaldi (born 12 December 1946) is a semi-retired Brazilian automobile racing driver. He won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once. He made his Formula One debut for Team Lotus as a third driver at the 1970 British Grand Prix. He enjoyed considerable success with Lotus, winning the World Drivers’ Championship in 1972 at the age of 25, a youngest F1 world champion record that he held for 33 years. He later moved to McLaren for 1974, won the title once again. He retired from F1 in 1980 and moved to the American CART series, achieving successful results, including the 1989 CART title. Since his retirement from Indy Car racing in 1996, he races only occasionally. In 2008, he was one of only three people in history to have a Corvette production car named in his honor. At age 67, he entered the 2014 6 Hours of São Paulo. He is the younger son of prominent Italian-Brazilian motorsports journalist and radio commentator Wilson FITTipaldi Sr and his wife Józefa \”Juzy\” Wojciechowska, an immigrant from Saint Petersburg of Polish and Russian descent. He was named after American author and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson, along with his brother Wilson, became motorsports enthusiasts as young children. The pair moved to racing Formula Vees, and built up a company with their parents.
He left for Europe in 1969, with the ambition to convince team owners of his talent in three months. After some podiums and his first victories in Formula Ford, he won nine F3 races on the Jim Russell Lotus 59 in the MCD Lombard Championship to become the 1969 champion. For 1970, he moved up to F2 by joining the Lotus semi-works Team Bardahl campaigning Lotus 59B. He ended the eight-race season in third place behind Clay Regazzoni and Derek Bell. In early 1970 he was given the seat given to Alex Solig to start with the British GP in early 1970 in regular seat, with Jochen Rindt and John Miles as the holders of the title. In July 1970 he scored a fourth place as No 3 driver in the German GP, where the No 1 driver was killed at Monza, and became the only driver to win the championship posthumously. In September that year he was promoted to No 1, and won the next German GP. He also won the Italian Grand Prix the next year, and in September he became No 1 in Monza and the next month he won the German Grand Prix in Berlin. In October 1970 he became the No. 1 driver on the Lotus No 1 team, and he was also promoted to be No 1 on the No 2 team, with John Miles. In November that year, he finished fourth place at the German Grand Prix, and on September 1 he was No 1 at the Monza Grand Prix where the No 1 driver was killed.
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