Giovanna Amati
Giovanna Amati ( born July 20, 1962 in Rome) is a former Italian automobile racing driver and so far last woman who was reported for a Formula 1 race.
Career
Giovanna Amati was born in 1962 as the daughter of a wealthy Italian businessman and collected as a friend of Elio de Angelis in a racing school first experience in motorsport. From 1981 to 1984 she participated in the Formula Abarth and could win some races there. The next two seasons disputed the Italian in the Italian Formula 3 and was also able to achieve respectable results there. 1987 she managed the climb in the European Formula 3000th Here she could only qualify occasionally and was able to achieve up to 1991 no championship points, they denied the 1989 season in the Japanese Formula 3000. Your years of stay in this motor sport is probably due to their ability to pay.
Before the start of the 1992 season Amati could get their first experience in a Formula 1 race cars because of their good relations with Benetton team boss Flavio Briatore. In the same year she was taken from the financially troubled team Brabham under contract to stabilize it financially. Since she could not achieve competitive lap times and in every qualification as 30th and last so could not qualify for the race, it was replaced for the Grand Prix of Spain by the debutant and eventual champion Damon Hill.
1993 Amati won the women's race in the European Supercup and won from 1994 to 1996 in the Ferrari Challenge some podiums. In 1998 and 1999 she drove in the International Sports Racing Series and the FIA also participated in various other sports car races.
Today Amati has worked as a journalist in her native Italy and works among others, the TV channel Rai Uno Formula 1 transmissions.