Paolo Barilla

Paolo Barilla

Born	20 April 1961
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1989 - 1990
Teams	Minardi
Entries	15 (9 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1989 Japanese Grand Prix
Last entry	1990 Spanish Grand Prix

Paolo Barilla (born 20 April 1961 in Milan, Italy) is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Minardi team. Paolo is one of the heirs of the vast Barilla pasta empire.

Barilla started racing in 1975 and won the Italian 100cc karting title in 1976. In 1980 he entered Formula Fiat Abarth, and moved up to Formula 3 in 1981, where he won some races and finished third in the Italian Championship. Barilla then entered Formula 2 in 1982 with Minardi, but between 1983 and 1988 he concentrated in sports car racing, winning 24 Hours of Le Mans by a three lap margin in 1985, among other victories, in the Joest Racing Porsche 956, co-driven at times with Klaus Ludwig, Paul Belmondo, Marc Duez, and Louis Krages (also known at the time as John Winter).

In 1987 Barilla returned to single-seaters and raced in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, before returning to Minardi in 1989 for a test. This test gave him the chance to replace Pierluigi Martini at Suzuka that year and afterwards was signed to drive for the team in 1990. Barilla wasn't quick enough to qualify regularly, and was replaced before the end of the year by Gianni Morbidelli.

Barilla then retired from racing and joined his family's businesses, where Paolo and his two brothers own a 51% stake in the company. Upon his return to the corporation, he briefly filled in as the CEO, before taking a more permanent position as a Vice-President. He has remained connected to motorsports in part due to Barilla's sponsorship of Alex Zanardi.

Racing record

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos	Pts
1981	Minardi Team	Minardi Fly 281	Ferrari	SIL	HOC	THR	NÜR	VAL	MUG	PAU	PER Ret	SPA					—	0
			BMW										DON 10	MIS	MAN
1982	Minardi Team Srl	Minardi Fly 281B	BMW	SIL 7	HOC Ret	THR 7		MUG Ret	VAL 11	PAU DNQ	SPA 12	HOC 12	DON DSQ	MAN Ret	PER Ret	MIS 8	—	0
			Ferrari				NÜR 15
1983	Minardi Team Srl	Minardi M283	BMW	SIL	THR	HOC	NÜR	VAL	PAU	JAR	DON	MIS	PER	ZOL NC	MUG		—	0

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1986	San Remo Racing	March 85B	Cosworth	SIL	VAL	PAU	SPA	IMO	MUG	PER	ZEL	BIR	BUG DNQ	JAR	NC	0
1987	Pavesi Racing	Ralt RT21	Cosworth	SIL 11	VAL Ret	SPA Ret	PAU 8		PER 7	BRH Ret	BIR Ret	IMO 8	BUG 17		NC	0
		Ralt RT20						DON 10						JAR DNQ
1988	Colin Bennett Racing	March 88B	Cosworth	JER Ret											17th	3
	Spirit TOM's Racing	Reynard 88D			VAL DNQ	PAU Ret	SIL Ret	MNZ Ret	PER DNQ	BRH 4	BIR
	Jordan Racing											BUG Ret	ZOL Ret	DIJ 7

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1983	Martini Racing	Alessandro Nannini Jean-Claude Andruet	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C	135	DNF	DNF
1984	Martini Racing	Mauro Baldi Hans Heyer	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C1	275	DNF	DNF
1985	New-Man Joest Racing	Klaus Ludwig Louis Krages	Porsche 956B	C1	374	1st	1st
1986	Joest Racing	Klaus Ludwig Louis Krages	Porsche 956B	C1	196	DNF	DNF
1988	Toyota Team Tom's	Tiff Needell Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 88C	C1	283	24th	15th
1989	Toyota Team Tom's	Hitoshi Ogawa Ross Cheever	Toyota 89C-V	C1	45	DNF	DNF

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1989	Minardi SpA	Minardi M189	Cosworth V8	BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN Ret	AUS	NC	0
1990	SCM Minardi Team	Minardi M189	Cosworth V8	USA Ret	BRA Ret															NC	0
		Minardi M190				SMR 11	MON Ret	CAN DNQ	MEX 14	FRA DNQ	GBR 12	GER DNQ	HUN 15	BEL Ret	ITA DNQ	POR DNQ	ESP DNQ	JPN	AUS

External links

• Profile on F1 Rejects