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Riccardo Patrese is one of the richest Racing Driver from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Riccardo Patrese's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Riccardo Gabriele Patrese (born 17 April 1954) is an Italian former racing driver, who raced in Formula One from 1977 to 1993. For 19 years, he held the record for the most Grand Prix starts.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Racing Driver |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
For years after the crash which caused Peterson’s death, Hunt (along with other drivers) blamed Patrese for starting the accident, and viewers of Hunt’s commentaries of Formula One races from 1980 to 1993 on BBC Television were regularly treated to bitter diatribes against Patrese when the Italian appeared on screen. Hunt believed that it was Patrese’s muscling past that caused the McLaren driven by Hunt and the Lotus driven by Peterson to touch, but Patrese argued that he was already well ahead of the pair before the accident took place. Patrese, together with race director Gianni Restilli, stood trial in Italian criminal court on manslaughter charges for Peterson’s death. Both were cleared of wrongdoing on 28 October 1981.
In 1982 Patrese moved to Brabham and gained his maiden win at that year’s Monaco Grand Prix in rather sensational circumstances. Patrese took the lead when Alain Prost crashed out, only to spin in dampening conditions on the next lap. This left him third behind Didier Pironi and Andrea de Cesaris, who both stopped on the final lap – Pironi with an electrical fault and de Cesaris out of fuel. Later that season he also led the Austrian Grand Prix but retired due to an engine failure. Patrese finished the season tenth, just ahead of his teammate Nelson Piquet. 1983 proved to be a more difficult season. Patrese crashed out late in the race while leading at San Marino – to the cheers of the tifosi, as his shunt meant that he handed the race win to Ferrari driver Patrick Tambay. – He also took pole on home ground at the Italian Grand Prix, before his engine blew up in the early stages of the race: in a 2010 interview he said he suspected that his engine had been left in its qualifying trim, rendering it extremely powerful but fragile, as he had not been offered a new contract for the following year, and had been reluctant to sacrifice his chances of winning his home Grand Prix for teammate Nelson Piquet, who was fighting for the World Championship. Despite scoring a second win at the South African Grand Prix, Patrese only finished ninth while Piquet claimed his second Drivers’ Championship title. It would be seven years before he made another visit to the top step of the podium.
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