Giancarlo Baghetti

Giancarlo Baghetti was an Italian racing driver, born and raised in Milan on 25 December 1934, who competed in Formula One from 1961 to 1967. He began in production cars and Formula Junior before the Federazione Italiana Scuderie Automobilistiche chose him to drive a non-works Ferrari 156. After winning his first two non-championship Formula One races he won the 1961 French Grand Prix on his World Championship debut, beating the Porsche of Dan Gurney, and he remains the only driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix on debut. He later drove for Ferrari, ATS and Scuderia Centro Sud and never finished on the podium again, won the 1000cc European Touring Car Championship in 1966 with Abarth, and retired from motor racing two years later. He died on 27 November 1995.