Formula One Career
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! Nationality
| Italian
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! Active years
| 1981 - 1994
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! Team(s)
| Tyrrell, Ferrari, Larrousse, Arrows, Minardi
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! Grands Prix
| 215
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! Championships
| 0
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! Wins
| 5
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! Podium finishes
| 22
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! Pole positions
| 2
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! Fastest laps
| 5
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! First Grand Prix
| 1981San Marino Grand Prix
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! First win
| 1982Las Vegas Grand Prix
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! Last win
| 1985German Grand Prix
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! Last Grand Prix
| 1994Australian Grand Prix
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Born in Milan, Alboreto studied design, and started racing in 1976 in a car designed by himself; it was called CMR and was raced in Formula Monza without success. He moved to Formula 3 in 1978 and in 1979 finished third in the Italian F3 series. He moved to the European Championship in 1980 while doing endurance races for Lancia. In 1981 he won the Euroracing title, which resulted in a move to the Minardi Formula 2 team, while maintaining his connections with Lancia and partnering with Riccardo Patrese to win the Watkins Glen Six Hours. He scored Minardi's only Formula 2 victory, at Misano, and made his Formula One debut in the 1981 San Marino GP, on board a Tyrrell. While with that team, he gained the distinction of giving the famous Cosworth DFV its last F1 victory (of 155), at the Detroit GP in 1983.
In 1984-1988 he raced for Ferrari, the first Italian racer to drive for the team since a long time. In 1984 he finished 4th in the World Championship with a victory in Austria, but in 1985 he challenged for the whole year against McLaren's Alain Prost for the title: however, in the second part of the season troubles with Ferrari's turbochargers thwarted his ambitions, and Alboreto finished only second with two victories, including that at Nurburgring which is still remembered as one of Ferrari's greatest successes. He renounced to Williams' proposal and remain in the team, but his car was largely outclassed by McLaren and the very Williams, and he scored no victories. In 1989 he returned to Tyrrell, for which he gained a further podium, entering however in the descending phase of his career. After racing for minor teams, he left Formula One at the end of the 1994 season.
