Riccardo Patrese

Riccardo Patrese

Patrese in 1993
Born	Riccardo Gabriele Patrese (1954-04-17) 17 April 1954 (age 70) Padua, Italy
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1977–1993
Teams	Shadow, Arrows, Brabham, Alfa Romeo, Williams, Benetton
Entries	257 (256 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	6
Podiums	37
Career points	281
Pole positions	8
Fastest laps	13
First entry	1977 Monaco Grand Prix
First win	1982 Monaco Grand Prix
Last win	1992 Japanese Grand Prix
Last entry	1993 Australian Grand Prix

Riccardo Gabriele Patrese^[1] (born 17 April 1954)^[2] is an Italian former racing driver, who raced in Formula One from 1977 to 1993.

He became the first Formula One driver to achieve 200 Grand Prix starts when he appeared at the 1990 British Grand Prix, and then became the first to achieve 250 starts at the 1993 German Grand Prix. For 19 years, he held the record for the most Formula One Grand Prix starts, with 256 races from 257 entries. As of the end of the 2023 season he is the tenth-most experienced F1 driver in history. At the age of 38 he was runner-up to Nigel Mansell in the 1992 Formula One World Championship, and third in 1989 and 1991. He won six Formula One races, with a record gap of over six years between two of these – the 1983 South African Grand Prix and 1990 San Marino Grand Prix.^[3]

Patrese also competed at the World Sportscar Championship for the Lancia factory team, finishing runner-up in 1982 and collecting eight wins.