“Jackie taught me to be faster and more consistent over the whole of a race.” In 1992, Fran-chitti joined the Formula Vauxhall Lotus circuit, and won his first championship cup a year later. Before he became Stewart’s protégé, “I just drove every lap as hard as I could,” Franchitti said in an interview with Andrew Longmore for the Independent on Sunday.
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Racing in the Formula Vauxhall Series as a junior driver, Franchitti scored a few impressive wins and came to the attention of Scottish auto-racing legend Jackie Stewart, who became his informal coach. He followed it with two wins in the British Junior Karting Championships in 19, and by 1989 had progressed to a second-place finish in the British Senior Karting Championship that year. His career began as a youngster in go-kart competitions, and in 1984 the eleven-year-old Franchitti won the Scottish Junior Karting Championship. His father owned several ice-cream parlors in Edinburgh, and was an amateur race car driver, a passion that Franchitti inherited. “I’ve been waiting for this day, and today it’s finally good to get noticed,” he was quoted as saying by Lars Anderson in Sports Illustrated.įranchitti was born in 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Italian-heritage parents who were second-generation immigrants to the British Isles, and grew up in the suburb of Whitburn. His victory came as a surprise in the rain-plagued race, but was nonetheless enthusiastically celebrated by Franchitti, who is married to Hollywood star Ashley Judd.
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S cottish race-car driver Dario Franchitti won theIndianapolis 500 in May of 2007, one of the most lucrative prizes in motor sports. 1990, and Formula Vauxhall Lotus circuit, 1992 raced in the English Formula Three circuit, 1994 with AMG Racing as a driver for German Touring Car series, 1995-97 became Championship Auto Racing Team (CART) driver, 1997, with Hogan Racing team joined Team KOOL Green Honda/ Reynard (later known as Andretti Green Racing), 1998 won Indianapolis 500, 2007. W on Scottish Junior Karting Championship,1984, and British Junior Karting Champion ship, 19 joined Formula Vauxhall Series, c. B orn May 19, 1973, in Edinburgh, Scotland sonof George (an ice-cream company owner) and Marina Franchitti married Ashley Judd (an actress), December 12, 2001.Īddresses: Home-Franklin, TN.
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