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Early career

Alesi was born in Avignon, Vaucluse. Starting his career with a passion for Rallying rather than racing, he graduated to single seaters through the French Renault 5 championship. In the late 1980s he was very much a coming man in motor racing, winning the 1988 French Formula 3 title, and following it up in 1989 with the International Formula 3000 crown, both after duels with his rival Erik Comas. View over the Rhône River to North-East with Mt Ventoux at the rear Palais des papes Square below the Palace of the Popes Paul Vs coat-of-arms on the Palais des papes The Notre Dame des Doms cathedral is located in the heart of Avignon, near... The Vaucluse is a département in the southeast of France. ... Formula 3000 is a type of formula racing. ... Erik Comas was a Formula One driver from France. ...

Formula One debut

Alesi debuted in the 1989 French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in a Tyrrell-Cosworth, finishing fourth. He drove most of the rest of the season for Tyrrell while continuing his successful Formula 3000 campaign, occasionally giving the car up in favour of Johnny Herbert and scoring points again at the Italian and Spanish Grands Prix. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The French Grand Prix is a Formula One race held as part of Fédération Internationale de lAutomobiles annual Formula One automobile racing championship season. ... Tyrrell was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell. ... Johnny Herbert driving for Benetton in 1995 John Paul Herbert (born June 25, 1964, Romford, England) is a British ex-Formula One motor racing driver, who enjoyed much success in lower-level motor racing but never managed to achieve the same level of performance at the top level of motorsport. ...

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Jean Alesi in his only Grand Prix win at the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

Alesi let his heart rule his head, and from the confusion chose Ferrari, who had just begun a downturn in form. In 5 years at the Italian marque he gained little except the passionate devotion of the Tifosi, who loved his aggressive style. When Michael Schumacher joined Ferrari in 1996, Alesi and teammate Gerhard Berger swapped places with him, joining the champion Benetton team, who, again, were beginning to experience a lull in form. After 2 seasons and internal politics, Alesi left. In his final years in the sport, Alesi drove for midfield teams Sauber and Prost gaining the odd podium, often in the wet where he excelled. Alesi ended his open-wheel career in 2001 with Jordan, bookending his open-wheel career nicely: Alesi had been in the Jordan Formula 3000 team when he won his title there. Jean Alesi wins the 1995 Canadian GP, by Rick Dikeman File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Jean Alesi wins the 1995 Canadian GP, by Rick Dikeman File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Results from the 1995 Formula One Canadian Grand Prix held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on June 11, 1995 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Michael Schumacher 1m 29. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Gerhard Berger, born August 27, 1959 in Wörgl is a popular Austrian Grand Prix racing driver. ... Sauber was a swiss constructor of racing cars. ... Alain Marie Pascal Prost, (born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France), simply known as Alain Prost, is a French racing driver. ...

Personality

Flamboyant, extroverted and emotional, Jean Alesi promised a great deal but never really delivered at the top level, sometimes due to impetuosity, sometimes due to his emotional decision to join the Ferrari racing team rather than the dominant Williams team in the early 1990s, but often due to sickeningly bad luck. In his penultimate race in Formula One, at Indianapolis in 2001, he became only the fifth driver to start 200 Grand Prix races, yet from his 201 starts, he only gained one victory - an emotional triumph at the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, Quebec on his 31st birthday. Although the victory in itself was inherited following leader Michael Schumacher's car problems, no-one begrudged Alesi his day in the sun, particularly after several excellent but ultimately unrewarded drives the year before, particularly in Italy. The current Ferrari logo Ferrari is an Italian automotive manufacturer in the Formula One World Championship, also involved in high-end and high-performance race cars, supercars, and sports cars. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Results from the 1995 Formula One Canadian Grand Prix held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on June 11, 1995 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Michael Schumacher 1m 29. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Michael Schumacher (pronounced //, born January 3, 1969, in Hürth Hermülheim, near Cologne) is a German Formula One driver and the most successful Grand Prix motor racing driver of all time. ...

Post-Formula One career

Alesi is now a popular and successful driver in the DTM (German Touring Car Championship), where he and his Mercedes finished in fifth place in the 2002 championship with one victory. He repeated this in 2003 but this time scoring two victories. In 2004 he finished seventh in the championship scoring no victories. In 2005 he won the opening race and went on to take seventh place in the standings once more. Alesi is a wine connossieur and has a vineyard near his hometown of Avignon, where he resides with his Japanese wife Kumiko Goto and their three children. The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM, German Touringcar Masters) is a motorsport series based in Germany, but also with rounds elsewhere in Europe. ... This page is about the Mercedes-Benz brand of automobiles and trucks from the DaimlerChrysler automobile manufacturer. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

DTM results

• 2002 - 1 victory, 5th in the championship
• 2003 - 2 victories, 5th
• 2004 - 7th
• 2005 - 1 victory, 7th

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