Gabriele Tarquini

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Gabriele Tarquini
Tarquini at the 2014 FIA WTCC Race of Belgium.
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1962-03-02) 2 March 1962 (age 62) Giulianova, Italy
World Touring Car Championship and World Touring Car Cup career
Debut season	2005
Current team	BRC Racing Team
Car number	30
Former teams	Lada Sport Rosneft JAS Motorsport Lukoil Racing Team Lukoil-SUNRED SEAT Sport Alfa Romeo
Starts	271
Wins	22
Poles	18
Fastest laps	25
Best finish	1st in 2009, 2018
Previous series
2005-17 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 2000 1999 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1995 1995 1994 1993 1987–1992 1985–87 1987 1983–84	WTCC ETCC ETCC ETCC Euro STC Euro STC BTCC BTCC STW STW BTCC ITC BTCC Italian Superturismo F1 BTCC Italian Superturismo F1 International F3000 WTCC Italian F3
Championship titles
2018 2009 2003 1994	WTCR WTCC ETCC BTCC

Formula One World Championship career
Active years	1987–1992, 1995
Teams	Osella, Coloni, First, AGS, Fondmetal, Tyrrell
Entries	78 (38 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	1
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1987 San Marino Grand Prix
Last entry	1995 European Grand Prix

Gabriele Tarquini (born 2 March 1962) is an Italian former racing driver. He participated in 78 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 3 May 1987. He scored a single championship point, and holds the record for the most failed attempts to qualify. He has subsequently raced successfully in Touring Cars, winning the BTCC in 1994, the ETCC in 2003 the WTCC in 2009 and the WTCR in 2018.

On 22 November 2009 he won the 2009 FIA World Touring Car Championship title at the age of 47 years and 266 days. This made him the oldest ever world champion in an FIA series, breaking Juan Manuel Fangio's record of being FIA Formula One World Drivers' Champion at the age of 46 years and 41 days in 1957.^[1][2][3] Tarquini backed up this record by winning the 2018 FIA World Touring Car Cup at the age of 56 years and 259 days.