Giorgio Pantano

Giorgio Pantano
Pantano in 2014 at Brands Hatch
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1979-02-04) 4 February 1979 (age 38) Padua, Italy
Formula One World Championship career Active years 2004 Teams Jordan Entries 15 (14 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First entry 2004 Australian Grand Prix Last entry 2004 Italian Grand Prix
Previous series 2009 2008 2005–08 2005 2004 2001–03 2000–02 2000 1999 1999 1999 Superleague Formula International GT Open GP2 Series IndyCar Series Formula One International Formula 3000 Formula One testing German Formula Three Championship Formula Palmer Audi Winter Series Euro Open by Nissan British Formula 3 Championship Championship titles 2008 2000 GP2 Series German Formula Three Championship
IndyCar Series career 6 races run over 3 years Team(s) Chip Ganassi Racing (2005 & 2012), Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (2011) Best finish 26th (2005) First race 2005 Argent Mortgage Indy Grand Prix Last race 2012 Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio

Giorgio Pantano (born 4 February 1979) is an Italian professional racing driver who drove for the Jordan Formula One team for much of the 2004 season before being replaced by Timo Glock. He was also successful in Formula 3000.

He raced in the GP2 Series from its inaugural year in 2005 until his championship campaign in 2008, holding the record for most races competed and most races won in the series. As of 2011, these records have been taken over by Luca Filippi (86 starts) and Pastor Maldonado (10 wins) respectively.

Born in Padua, Pantano is the holder of one of the best records ever in karting, where he started at age nine. Nico Rosberg grew up with a poster of Pantano on his bedroom wall and later would describe the Italian as being "probably the best of all time in karts."Fernando Alonso once called Pantano "invincible" and that in karting he had looked up to him as being "a really incredible talent."

In his first year in Cadet karting he achieved the Italian and European titles. In 1994 he won the Italian and World titles in Junior karting and in 1995 and 1996 won the European Formula A title. In 1996 he was signed by AMG-Mercedes, from where he went through a difficult patch to enter Formula One racing. He entered the winter series of Palmer Audi in 1999 and tested for the Astromega Formula 3000 team before signing for the KMS team that would take him to race in Formula Three in his first year of single-seater racing. He won his first race and went on to win the title.