Vittorio Zoboli

Vittorio Zoboli (born 24 June 1968 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian racing driver. His career has spanned Formula One, Formula Three, Formula 3000 and sports car racing, in addition to two appearances in the Formula One Indoor Trophy.

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  Vittorio Zoboli
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  Formula 1 Team Jordan 1994

Career

Kart

1980-1984 Karting 3rd Classified 100 Super European Championship; 1st Classified 100 Super International Cup, 2nd Classified 100 Cadets Italian Championship, 3rd Classified 100 National Italian Championship, 2nd Classified 100 Cadets Italy-France.

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  Kart

Formula Four

1987 Vittorio won Italian Championship with 7 race wins.

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  Formula Four 1987

Formula Three

1988 Best Rookie in Formula Three with Team Cevenini sponsor Nike's driver. Vittorio Zoboli's Marlboro driver, competed in the Italian Formula Three Championship for 1989, driving a Dallara chassis run by the Forti Corse team. He finished in sixteenth place in the drivers' championship, with two points to his name.

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  Formula 3 1988
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  Formula 3 1989

Formula 3000

Zoboli moved up to the British Formula 3000 series for 1990, driving for the GA Motorsport team. He scored two podium finishes and set a fastest lap on his way to fifth position overall.

At the end of the season, he took part in the final two rounds of the more prestigious International Formula 3000 season, again with GA Motorsport. However, he failed to qualify in both of these appearances. He moved to the Junior Team outfit for the 1991 season, competing in the first eight of the championship's ten rounds and qualifying for five of them, but failing to score any points. Another move, to the one-car Advance Racing team, for 1992 brought about an improvement to thirteenth in the championship with three points. He also finished in fourth position in the season-opening, non-championship F3000 World Cup event held at the Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez. He then moved to the ambitious Il Barone Rampante team for 1993, but it folded mid-season without Zoboli scoring any points.

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  Formula 3000 1992

Formula One

1994 FORMULA 1 Test Driver Team Jordan. Despite being left without a permanent drive until 1995, Zoboli made an appearance at the Formula One Indoor Trophy in 1993, driving for the Jordan team alongside regular team member Rubens Barrichello. In the preliminary rounds he scored enough points to beat BMS Scuderia Italia drivers Michele Alboreto and Fabrizio Barbazza, but was then knocked out by his team-mate in the semi-finals. He did, however, take third place after defeating Alboreto again in an additional race for the position.

He returned to the event in 1995 after it was not held the previous year. On this occasion, he returned to his F3 employer Forti (now an F1 team) alongside Andrea Montermini and Giovanni Lavaggi, but was knocked out in the preliminary rounds.

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  Formula 1 Team Jordan 1994
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  Formula 1 Team Forti 1995

Sports car racing

With his single-seater career petering out, Zoboli turned to sports car racing. His début in the category came in 1995, when he competed in two rounds of the BPR Global GT Series in a Jolly Club-run Ferrari F40 1st Classified GP Estoril - 2nd Classified GP Nurburgring. He then competed in the Lamborghini GTR Supertrophy between 1997 and 2002, with 7 victories and numerous podium placements, 2nd Classified in Championship 2001.

Between 2002 and 2004 he competed in nine rounds of the FIA GT Championship, driving a Ferrari 550 Maranello for the Force One Racing with David Halliday and Philippe Alliot and Wieth Racing teams. In 2006 he drove in the FIA GT3 Lamborghini Gallardo Team Reiter co-driver Albert II Thurn und Taxis, finishing in fourth position.

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  Ferrari F40 1995
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  Ferrari 550 Maranello 2000
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  Lamborghini Diablo GTR 2000
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  Lamborghini Gallardo 2006

Squadra Corse Automobili Lamborghini

2012 – 2013 Automobili Lamborghini Blancapain Supertrofeo - General manager 2009 – 2011 Automobili Lamborghini Blancapain Supertrofeo - Coordination

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  Vittorio Zoboli
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  Vittorio Zoboli

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
1989	Italian Formula Three	Forti Corse	9	0	0	2	16th
1990	British Formula 3000	GA Motorsport	9	0	0	16	5th
	International Formula 3000	GA Motorsport	2	0	0	0	NC
1991	International Formula 3000	Junior Team	8	0	0	0	NC
1992	International Formula 3000	Advance Racing	9	0	0	3	13th
	Formula 3000 World Cup	Advance Racing	1	0	0	N/A	4th
1993	International Formula 3000	Il Barone Rampante	4	0	0	0	NC
	Formula One Indoor Trophy	Jordan	1	0	0	N/A	3rd
1995	BPR Global GT Series	Jolly Club	2	0	0	0	NC
	Formula One Indoor Trophy	Forti	1	0	0	N/A	6th
1997-2002	Lamborghini GTR Supertrophy
2002	FIA GT Championship	Force One Racing	1	0	0	0	NC
2003	FIA GT Championship	Wieth Racing	6	0	0	1	?
2004	FIA GT Championship	Wieth Racing	2	0	0	0	NC
2006	FIA GT3 Lamborghini Manufacturers' Cup	Reiter Engineering	2	0	0	4	4th

Complete International Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1990	GA Motorsport	Reynard 90D	Cosworth	A	DON	SIL	PAU	JER	MNZ	PER	HOC	BRH	BIR	BUG DNQ	NOG DNQ	NC	0
1991	Junior Team	Reynard 91D	Judd	A	VAL Ret	PAU DNQ	JER Ret	MUG DNQ	PER Ret	HOC DNQ	BRH 13	SPA Ret	BUG	NOG		NC	0
1992	Advance Racing	Reynard 92D	Cosworth	A	SIL Ret	PAU 4	CAT 12	PER	HOC 14	NUR 12	SPA 15	ALB 13	NOG 12	MAG Ret		13th	3
1993	Il Barone Rampante	Reynard 93D	Cosworth	A	DON Ret	SIL 12	PAU DNQ	PER Ret	HOC	NUR	SPA	MAG	NOG			NC	0

External links

• Official website (under construction) Archived 2017-06-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
• Vittorio Zoboli career summary at DriverDB.com
• FIA GT Championship website profile