1976 - Won European Karting title.
Racing Career:
1976 - Won European Karting title.
1977 - Took Italian Formula Ford championship with six wins in ten starts.
Finished fourth overall in European Formula Three with three wins. Won Tasman
championship by winning six of eight races.
1978-80 - March factory Formula Two and F3 test and race driver. Won three
Formula 2 races.
1981 - Competing in SCCA Can-Am series scored four victories and seven poles
and finished second in the standings driving for Paul Newman. Set five track records.
1982 - Joined Toleman Formula one team taking a pole in the German Grand
prix. Won the World Sportscar championship round at the Nurburgring.
1983 - Made PPG Cup debut at Atlanta. Named Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the
Year after winning the pole - in only his second Indy start - and leading until a fuelling
malfunction. First European in 20 years to win a pole at Indy. Won four events: Pocono,
Mid-Ohio, Phoenix and Laguna Seca. Finished second to series champion Al Unser by
only five points. Named PPG IndyCar World Series Rookie of the Year after leading 521
laps during the season - more than double any other competitor. Scored six poles: Indy,
Milwaukee, Michigan, Riverside, Laguna Seca and Phoenix. Named to the AARWBA All-
American Team (Lost "Driver of the Year" honours to Bobby Allison by two votes.)
1984 - Started seven races and led the Indianapolis 500 or 14 laps before retiring.
Best finish of the year was third at Portland. Made mid-year switch to Formula One driving
for Brabham BMW and finishing third at Detroit.
1985 - Raced full F1 season for Toleman-Hart, scoring a pole in the German
Grand Prix .
1986 - Moved to Benetton-BMW team taking poles in Australian and Italian
Grand Prix. Best finish was fifth at Spanish Grand Prix.
1987 - Placed ninth in the F1 World Championship with a best finish of third at
Austria for Benetton-Ford.
1988: - Named lead driver for Porsche PPG Cup effort. Finished fourth at
Pocono and tenth in PPG points.
1989 - Scored only Porsche PPG victory at Mid-Ohio from the pole. Scored
nine Top Five finishes and two other Top Ten finishes. Finished fourth in PPG Indy Car
World Series rankings.
1990 - Best finish for Porsche Indy Car was third at Meadowlands. Scored only
Porsche pole of the year at Denver.
1991 - Captured the World Sportscar championship for Jaguar. Won at
Silverstone and finished third at LeMans.
1992 - Started third, finished sixth at Detroit, substituting for Mario Andretti who
was recovering from five broken toes sustained at the Indianapolis 500. Finished fourth in
24 Hours of LeMans with Toyota.
1993 - Scored ten Top Ten finishes in sixteen starts with Hall/VDS team. Best
finish was fourth at Long Beach.
1994 - Competed in all sixteen races for Hall Racing. Scored three fourth-place
finishes at Detroit, Michigan and Road America. Best start was seventh at Laguna Seca.
Announced plans to move to the newly formed Forsythe Racing Team for which he drove
in the early 1980s.
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