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	Christian Fittipaldi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christian Fittipaldi (born January 18, 1971, São Paulo, Brazil) is the son of former Grand Prix driver and team owner Wilson Fittipaldi, and the nephew of two-time Formula One and Indianapolis 500 Champion Emerson Fittipaldi.
		Christian was a highly rated young racing driver in the early 1990s, who drove 40 Grand Prix for Minardi and Footwork between 1992 and 1994.
		Christian struggled and was reassigned shortly after the start of autumn, but remained with the team, driving the 44 car.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Fittipaldi (418 words)

	Emerson Fittipaldi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emerson Fittipaldi is the younger brother of former Formula One driver and team owner Wilson Fittipaldi.
		Fittipaldi didn't return to the series as a driver after the injury but in 2003 he made a return to Champcars as a team owner.
		Fittipaldi is currently acting as team principal for the Brazilian A1 GP entry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emerson_Fittipaldi (1039 words)

	Race 2 Win: Sharpie 500 - Christian Fittipaldi Notes
		Saturday night will be Fittipaldi’s NASCAR Winston Cup race debut at the speedway but he will run the #9 Bugles/Wells Fargo Financial entry in Wednesday night’s Truck series race, and has tested at the high-banked speedway.
		Fittipaldi will be driving a special Cheerios Heart Health Dodge for the three races beginning with Saturday night's event at Bristol.
		Fittipaldi is the first-ever Brazilian native to run full time in NASCAR’s top series and is the only full-time NASCAR driver to have raced full-time in Formula One and CART.
	www.race2win.net /wc/03/race/bms2/cf.html (704 words)

	Christian Fittipaldi: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christian Fittipaldi (born January 18, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Emerson fittipaldi (born december 12, 1946, são paulo, brazil) was a highly successful open-wheel racer, winning championships in both formula one and...
		Christian was a highly rated young racing driver in the early 1990s, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christian_fittipaldi.htm (1574 words)

	Christian Fittipaldi Returns
		PORTLAND, OREGON: Christian Fittipaldi never had a chance to be anything but a race driver.
		Christian Fittipaldi was a helpless passenger as the car sailed through the air into the catch fence.
		Fittipaldi is anxious to cash in on some of that team success.
	www.theautochannel.com /callahan/cart/97061901.html (531 words)

	Fittipaldi only sore after enduring horrific crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fittipaldi, the nephew of 1989 CART champion Emerson Fittipaldi, lost control of his Swift-Ford Cosworth about midway through the morning practice session, slamming so hard into the wall that the jolt took out an 18-inch piece of concrete.
		Fittipaldi was eventually taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital for a precautionary CAT scan and X-rays of his cervical spine.
		Fittipaldi said he couldn't remember the crash and he complained of stiffness in his neck, chest and right leg.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/race/arc/mnot52998.stm (803 words)

	Race 2 Win: Brickyard 400 - Christian Fittipaldi Notes
		Christian Fittipaldi, driver of the #43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge, heads to the 2.5-mile Indianapolis (Ind.) Motor Speedway for Sunday’s Brickyard 400.
		Fittipaldi, whose uncle Emerson is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, has only one start at Indianapolis.
		Fittipaldi was the runner-up for the 1995 Indianapolis 500 in his rookie year on the CART circuit, easily winning rookie-of-the-year for his accomplishment.
	www.race2win.net /wc/03/race/ims/cf.html (684 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fittipaldi was up to eighth place by this point and again reported that he had too much "push." He moved up to sixth place on lap 154 when second place Andretti and fourth place Gil de Ferran made their final stops.
		Fittipaldi returned to the race in 16th place but moved into 15th when Paul Tracy was fl-flagged for a pit penalty.
		Fittipaldi remained in 10th place until the race was restarted and he passed Fernandez.
	www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=44587 (1627 words)

	Teleconference with Christian Fittipaldi
		Christian Fittipaldi: "Well, the win obviously meant a lot, especially we were after it for a long time and we came close a bunch of times before that happened but things never went my way.
		Christian Fittipaldi: "I think (getting the) power down is very important, especially on the low-speed stuff coming out of the turns, and a very good balance on the high-speed corners.
		Christian Fittipaldi: "No. I tried it in the Detroit race but it was really cramping up my shoulder after a couple of laps (and) I didn't like it very much, so I'm really using it on the ovals.
	www.speedcenter.com /interviews/sc_i0815_00.html (3868 words)

	AutoRacing1.com - CART News
		CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI: Well, I think, believe it or not, if you ask me like "Compared to last year, how is your season going," I think we're stronger than last year.
		CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI: No. Right now I tried it in the Detroit race, but it was really cramping up my shoulder after like a couple of laps.
		CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI: Is when we're going through those batch of three races together and testing in the middle of the way.
	www.autoracing1.com /htmfiles/2000/0815Fittipaldi.htm (2167 words)

	pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
		A1 Team Brasil is delighted to announce that Christian Fittipaldi will be flying the flag for Team Brasil as he takes over as lead driver for the race-winning outfit for the Indonesian round of the A1 Grand Prix series.
		Christian won every major championship on his way to the 1991 F3000 Championship crown, and followed that up with a three-year stint in Formula One in which he achieved Minardi's highest ever finish with a fourth place.
		Christian will be supported at the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Sentul, Indonesia by regular team reserve driver, Tuka Rocha, who is this week participating in a driver shoot-out in Florida for the Newman/Wachs Racing Atlantic Team, which will compete in the 2006 Champ Car Atlantic Championship in North America.
	www.pitpass.com /fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=27045 (730 words)

	Christian Fittipaldi: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christian was a highly rated young racing driver in the early 1990s, who drove 40 Grand Prix (Grand Prix: One of several international races) for Minardi (Minardi: minardi is a automobile racing team, founded in 1979 by giancarlo minardi....
		Christian struggled and was reassigned shortly after the start of autumn, but remains with the team, driving the 44 car, and, in time, expects to run a full Cup season for Richard.
		Fittipaldi co-drove the winning car during the 24 Hours of Daytona (24 Hours of Daytona: the 24 hours of daytona is an automotive endurance race held annually at daytona international...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/christian_fittipaldi (938 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Columnist Brian Hilderbrand: Christian thrown to NASCAR's lions
		Fittipaldi was not supposed to make his Winston Cup debut until next year after signing a three-year deal this summer to drive for Petty Enterprises.
		Fittipaldi, 31, has competed in three NASCAR Busch Series races during the past two seasons for Innovative Motorsports and qualified fifth for the race at Gateway International Raceway in July.
		Fittipaldi, who took seventh at last weekend's 500-mile CART race at California Speedway and will conclude his open-wheel career next weekend in Mexico City, said he is looking forward to concentrating solely on NASCAR next season.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2002/nov/08/514224327.html (1258 words)

	SLAM! Sports Stats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Both Fittipaldi and Michael Andretti are driving the Swift chassis, which was introduced to this Indy car series at the season-opening Grand Prix of Miami.
		Fittipaldi is in his third year in the CART series.
		Fittipaldi has finished in the top five a total of seven times and in the top 10 21 times, and has amassed more than $2 million.
	www.canoe.ca /StatsRAC/BC-RAC-LGNS-CFITTIPALD-R.html (441 words)

	Grand American Road Racing Association
		Christian, you were talking a little about how frustrating it was for you.
		CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI: I have to be quite honest with you, I have heard that rumor floating around a little bit.
		I think with Christian in the car and with the team as hungry as they are to win some races, I definitely think that it's going to be interesting.
	www.grandamerican.com /News/Article.asp?ID=3056 (5521 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Users: Time for some results
		Christian "Mediocrity" Fittipaldi has had a world-class ride for a long, long time and yet can't seem to do anything to inspire me to watch him as a fan.
		Fittipaldi might as well go to the Busch Series, he ran about as well there as he has in CART lately.
		I cringe when Christian becomes involved in a dice, he is not the safest of drivers.
	espn.go.com /rpm/cart/2002/0107/1307301.html (646 words)

	SPEEDTV.com
		Christian Fittipaldi, who ended his long career in open-wheel racing last year for a try at NASCAR, with disappointing results, is now returning to road racing, albeit still with fenders.
		Fittipaldi raced with the team at the Rolex 24 at Daytona earlier this year, and came away with a win.
		Fittipaldi will be in the Bell DP entry for the next round of the Rolex Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sept. 12.
	www.speedtv.com /articles/auto/roadracing/12535 (326 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fittipaldi to open new phase of career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fittipaldi, who drove in the Busch Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway last fall, recently signed on with the Petty team to make a full-time switch from open-wheel to stock cars next season.
		Fittipaldi, a 31-year-old native of Brazil, is the nephew of former Formula One champion and 1989 Indianapolis 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi.
		Petty plans to enter Fittipaldi in a combination of races in Winston Cup, Busch and ARCA, a lower-rung stock car racing series that is not run by NASCAR but uses old Winston Cup cars on many of the same tracks the Cup series runs on.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/nascar/2002-11-04-fittipaldi_x.htm (633 words)

	Christian Fittipaldi Bio
		For 1997 Fittipaldi, nephew of Emerson Fittipaldi, is the teammate of Michael Andretti at Newman-Haas Racing for a second year.
		Christian, whose first race was at 11 in a go-kart, made his professional debut at 17 in a Formula Ford 2000 and was runner-up for the Brazilian championship in that class in 1988.
		Fittipaldi came to CART racing from Formula One, where he drove for Minardi in 1992 and 1993 and for Footwork-Arrows in 1994.
	www.cartracingupdate.com /BIOS/fittibio.htm (499 words)

	Christian Fittipaldi Speaker - Book Motivational Celebrity Speaker Christian Fittipaldi and Other Corporate ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Christian Fittipaldi (born January 18, 1971, São Paulo, Brazil) is the son of former Grand Prix driver and team owner Wilson Fittipaldi, and the nephew of twice F1 Champion Emerson Fittipaldi.
		Competing mainly in Champcars, Fittipaldi was a slow starter, noted for his consistency rather than his outright pace, although by the time he won his first Champcar event at Road America in 1999, he was a championship contender due to his consistent finishing.
		Christian struggled and was reassigned shortly after the start of autumn, but remains with the team, driving the 44 car, and, in time, expects to run a full Cup season for Richard.Fittipaldi co-drove the winning car during the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2004.Fittipaldi scored a total of 12 F1 championship points.
	www.allamericanspeakers.com /newspeakerbio/2791/index.php (883 words)

	Auto Racing Articles: Nascar Online, Nascar News, Auto Racing, Nascar, Racing, History Of Nascar, Nascar Odds, Nascar ...
		In the second round of qualifying, Fittipaldi is one of the few drivers to gain on the two, front-row Penske cars.
		Fittipaldi is sweating heavily as he climbs out of the car, but he’s smiling broadly.
		Fittipaldi has had some incredible highs, like his first CART victory at Road America, site of this weekend’s race, and a pole at home in Rio last season.
	www.racingone.com /article.asp?artnum=2477 (982 words)

	Race 2 Win: EA Sports 500 - Christian Fittipaldi Notes
		Steering the Bugles Dodge, this weekend Christian Fittipaldi and the #44 team head to the 2.66-mile Talladega Superpeedway for Sunday’s EA Sports 500.
		Bugles snacks will once again sponsor Fittipaldi behind the wheel of the #44 Bugles Dodge in a continuation of a series of races that the snack food will sponsor.
		Fittipaldi will also race the #44 Bugles Dodge later this year at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Jeff Green will drive the #43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge that Fittipaldi normally drives.
	www.race2win.net /wc/03/race/ts2/cf.html (735 words)

	Crash.Net A1GP: Fittipaldi enjoys single seater return. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fittipaldi took over the spot vacated by Nelson Piquet Jr in the championship which pitches nation against nation and the former Minardi and Footwork F1 driver moved forwards in both races at the Sentul race circuit, but suffered contact with the Team Italy car in the first race.
		Fittipaldi has started the Sprint race from 21st on the grid after suffering a difficult qualifying session on Saturday.
		The Feature race was far better, with Fittipaldi up to fifteenth place at the end of the first lap, and an early dive for the compulsory pistop when the first safety car came out.
	www.crash.net /news_view.asp?cid=83&id=125294 (535 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the 6 years he remained in the so-called School of Auto Racing he competed in 51 races, of which he won 29, and was twice the Sao Paulo State champion, and Champion of the Le Mans Cup, in France.
		The performance obtained by Christian Fittipaldi in his first year with the new team, when he was always in the position of a serious contender for the Championship Title, demonstrates that IndyCar and the fans of auto racing had gained a new star in the sport.
		The move was preceded by a short schedule of NASCAR Busch series races in 2001 and 2002 that solidified his desire to compete in the most popular form of racing in the United States.
	www.feedstheneedracing.com /c_fittipaldi_bio.htm (541 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Interview > Christian Fittipaldi
		Christian Fittipaldi has a lot to live up to, of course.
		Christian started racing karts at the age of 11 was twice in the top six in the World Karting Championships and then waltzed through the junior formulae
		Christian Fittipaldi like a man with a famous name and lots of money behind him.
	www.grandprix.com /ft/ft00066.html (1050 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
		Christian Fittipaldi, a 28-year-old Brazilian in his fifth season in the CART FedEx Series, did not wear that mantle well.
		Until he took the checkered flag in yesterday's Texaco-Havoline 200 at Road America, Fittipaldi had not won since 1991, when he was on the way to winning the European Formula 3000 championship.
		Fittipaldi's Swift-Ford was 1.060 seconds -- several hundred yards -- ahead of Andretti's at the end.
	starbulletin.com /1999/07/12/sports/story6.html (697 words)

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