Riccardo Patrese

Riccardo Patrese is an Italian former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1977 to 1993. He was the first driver to reach 200 Grand Prix starts, at the 1990 British Grand Prix, and the first to reach 250, at the 1993 German Grand Prix, and he held the record for the most starts, 256 races from 257 entries, for nineteen years. At 38 he was runner-up to Nigel Mansell in the 1992 World Drivers Championship with Williams, and he finished third in 1989 and 1991. He won six Grands Prix, among them the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix, with a record gap of more than six years between his 1983 South African win and his 1990 San Marino win. Away from Formula One he raced for the Lancia factory team in the World Sportscar Championship, finishing runner-up in 1982 with eight wins.