Dario Franchitti

Description: Sports: Motorsport / Sport Topic: Motorsport Drivers / Scottish driver for Team KOOL Green.

Newest Review: ... he had to race Mercedes cars. This meant he had to drive Touring Cars for a few years which yielded a few wins but that was it.Then at the end of 1996 he managed to sign a deal with Walker Racing for the 1997 CART season. Walker were powered by Mercedes engines, so everything was fine. Dario was very impressive. He had at least one pole position and should have won at least one race as well ... more

... as Rookie of the Year. Sadly, it never happened. At the end of the year Dario signed for Team KOOL Green, who had previously run Jacques Villenevue of F1 fame. He had finally gotten free of Mercedes, but had to sit out the last race of 97 as Walk...more

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Dario Franchitti: The Flying Scotsman (478 words)
by - written on 29/09/01 (Very useful, 24 readings)
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Dario Franchitti has been the only British driver in CART for the last few years. Mark Blundell used to race with some success, but recently left the series. Dario comes from Bathgate which is near Edinburgh, in Scotland. Being Scottish myself he is my favourite CART driver at the present, though Alex Zanardi and Juan Pablo Montoya rank up there as some of my favourites. I'm hoping that Dario will come to F1 one day and I think he would do well, despite his poor test for Jaguar Racing last year. I know little of Dario's career before CART other than Mercedes owned his contract and therefore he had to race Mercedes cars. This meant he had to ... Read the complete review

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