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The Curious Tale of Pietro Fittipaldi and How He Got His Super License
So, this guy is probably coming back to F1, after substituting for Grosjean in 2020, to replace Mazepin who is for probably the wrong reasons on the way out. However, he is supposedly an even worse driver. How does he have a super license then? Well...
Back in 2017 there was this race series with a stupidly long name, called the World Series Formula V8 3.5. Catchy I know. It was basically the old Formula Renault series, barely surviving with a thin cast of drivers, but it offered 35 super license points for the Champion, just 5 shy of the 40 required. Pietro rose to the top, beating capable (!) drivers such as Roy Nissany and Alfonso Celis Jr. along the way. FIA was going to change the maximum points on offer from 35 to 20 for the next season, but the series folded before that could happen.
For 2018 Pietro entered both IndyCar and WEC, but disaster struck at Spa - during practice he had a terrible crash, so severe that it broke his legs. With the season written off, he asked the FIA nicely if he could keep his 35 license points for a bit longer. Sure the FIA said, but you still need five more to get your license son.
So he entered DTM for 2019, but could only manage a handful of point finishes and added nothing to his license tally. At the end of the year however, he would be at the Asian F3 series, another good opportunity for more pointage, and he only needed to finish fifth to get the 6 points and get over 40. The season started badly for him however, and although performance improved, he was still a distant sixth in the standings with six races to go, when China/USA/Christina Aguilera/the moon people decided to unleash Covid-19 upon the world.
Two of the drivers ahead of him, Defrancesco and Fernandez, decided to pull out of the series. And although he was piped to the line for fourth by future W Series legend Jamie Chadwick, fifth was good enough for him and a license is granted.
So here we are, a driver who is not only in F1 because of who his dad is, but also because he broke his legs a few years ago, somehow the pandemic happened, and Russia decided it was a good idea to invade Ukraine and fuck up Mazepin's chances for WDC 2022. AMAZING.
The Curious Tale of Pietro Fittipaldi and How He Got His Super License
So, this guy is probably coming back to F1, after substituting for Grosjean in 2020, to replace Mazepin who is for probably the wrong reasons on the way out. However, he is supposedly an even worse driver. How does he have a super license then? Well...
Back in 2017 there was this race series with a stupidly long name, called the World Series Formula V8 3.5. Catchy I know. It was basically the old Formula Renault series, barely surviving with a thin cast of drivers, but it offered 35 super license points for the Champion, just 5 shy of the 40 required. Pietro rose to the top, beating capable (!) drivers such as Roy Nissany and Alfonso Celis Jr. along the way. FIA was going to change the maximum points on offer from 35 to 20 for the next season, but the series folded before that could happen.
For 2018 Pietro entered both IndyCar and WEC, but disaster struck at Spa - during practice he had a terrible crash, so severe that it broke his legs. With the season written off, he asked the FIA nicely if he could keep his 35 license points for a bit longer. Sure the FIA said, but you still need five more to get your license son.
So he entered DTM for 2019, but could only manage a handful of point finishes and added nothing to his license tally. At the end of the year however, he would be at the Asian F3 series, another good opportunity for more pointage, and he only needed to finish fifth to get the 6 points and get over 40. The season started badly for him however, and although performance improved, he was still a distant sixth in the standings with six races to go, when China/USA/Christina Aguilera/the moon people decided to unleash Covid-19 upon the world.
Two of the drivers ahead of him, Defrancesco and Fernandez, decided to pull out of the series. And although he was piped to the line for fourth by future W Series legend Jamie Chadwick, fifth was good enough for him and a license is granted.
So here we are, a driver who is not only in F1 because of who his dad is, but also because he broke his legs a few years ago, somehow the pandemic happened, and Russia decided it was a good idea to invade Ukraine and fuck up Mazepin's chances for WDC 2022. AMAZING.