Racing Career - Teo Fabi.

Racing Career:

1976 - Won European Karting title.

1977 - Took Italian Formula Ford championship with six wins in ten starts. Finished fourth overall in European Formula Three with three wins. Won Tasman championship by winning six of eight races.

1978-80 - March factory Formula Two and F3 test and race driver. Won three Formula 2 races.

1981 - Competing in SCCA Can-Am series scored four victories and seven poles and finished second in the standings driving for Paul Newman. Set five track records.

1982 - Joined Toleman Formula one team taking a pole in the German Grand prix. Won the World Sportscar championship round at the Nurburgring.

1983 - Made PPG Cup debut at Atlanta. Named Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year after winning the pole - in only his second Indy start - and leading until a fuelling malfunction. First European in 20 years to win a pole at Indy. Won four events: Pocono, Mid-Ohio, Phoenix and Laguna Seca. Finished second to series champion Al Unser by only five points. Named PPG IndyCar World Series Rookie of the Year after leading 521 laps during the season - more than double any other competitor. Scored six poles: Indy, Milwaukee, Michigan, Riverside, Laguna Seca and Phoenix. Named to the AARWBA All- American Team (Lost "Driver of the Year" honours to Bobby Allison by two votes.)

1984 - Started seven races and led the Indianapolis 500 or 14 laps before retiring. Best finish of the year was third at Portland. Made mid-year switch to Formula One driving for Brabham BMW and finishing third at Detroit.

1985 - Raced full F1 season for Toleman-Hart, scoring a pole in the German Grand Prix .

1986 - Moved to Benetton-BMW team taking poles in Australian and Italian Grand Prix. Best finish was fifth at Spanish Grand Prix.

1987 - Placed ninth in the F1 World Championship with a best finish of third at Austria for Benetton-Ford.

1988: - Named lead driver for Porsche PPG Cup effort. Finished fourth at Pocono and tenth in PPG points.

1989 - Scored only Porsche PPG victory at Mid-Ohio from the pole. Scored nine Top Five finishes and two other Top Ten finishes. Finished fourth in PPG Indy Car World Series rankings.

1990 - Best finish for Porsche Indy Car was third at Meadowlands. Scored only Porsche pole of the year at Denver.

1991 - Captured the World Sportscar championship for Jaguar. Won at Silverstone and finished third at LeMans.

1992 - Started third, finished sixth at Detroit, substituting for Mario Andretti who was recovering from five broken toes sustained at the Indianapolis 500. Finished fourth in 24 Hours of LeMans with Toyota.

1993 - Scored ten Top Ten finishes in sixteen starts with Hall/VDS team. Best finish was fourth at Long Beach.

1994 - Competed in all sixteen races for Hall Racing. Scored three fourth-place finishes at Detroit, Michigan and Road America. Best start was seventh at Laguna Seca. Announced plans to move to the newly formed Forsythe Racing Team for which he drove in the early 1980s.

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