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	Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Emerson Fittipaldi- Biography
		Fittipaldi made his debut at Brands Hatch driving an old Lotus 49 in which he scored an 8th place.
		Fittipaldi's 1971 season was interrupted by a road accident on his way home.
		More than the threat of his fast teammate Fittipaldi might have surmised that Lotus was entering one of their down periods after the racing life of their superb Lotus 72 had reached its end.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/fitti_bio.htm (771 words)

	Abstract Art and Contemporary Art by Blind Artist, Lisa Fittipaldi, Oil Painter, Watercolor Paintings, Oil Paintings, ...
		Fittipaldi was declared legally blind in 1993, and in the ensuing years her vision dropped below measurable levels.
		Clearly for Lisa Fittipaldi the loss of her sight was a challenge to her formidable intellect, one that she knew she must meet in order to keep her spirit and vitality alive.
		Fittipaldi delights in giving her viewer the visual experience of color and energy that she sees in her mind’s eye.
	www.lisafittipaldi.com (896 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel
		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)

	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)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Fittipaldi Automotive
		At the end of the year Emerson Fittipaldi dropped a bombshell on F1 when he announced that he was quitting McLaren to drive alongside his brother.
		For 1979 Fittipaldi hired designer Ralph Bellamy but his F6 chassis was not a success because of the arrival of ground-effect technology.
		Fittipaldi was by then being regularly overshadowed by the Finn and was considering retirement.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-fitti.html (394 words)

	F1A&G - Emerson Fittipaldi
		With his first crown at age 25, Fittipaldi nonetheless drove for years in the shadow of Jackie Stewart, who dominated the early 1970s with Team Tyrrell.
		But the Copersucar (renamed Fittipaldi in 1980) was never competitive — with a 2nd in the 1978 Belgian GP and a 3rd at Long Beach in 1980 being their best results — and the team was disbanded after the 1982 season.
		This photo of Fittipaldi in the JPS Lotus is from the the season-opening 1972 Argentine Grand Prix at Buenos Aires, a race in which he retired with suspension problems after 61 laps.
	www.f1-grandprix.com /fittipaldi.html (349 words)

	The Callahan Report: CART's Fittipaldi Says Goodbye to the Driver's Seat
		Fittipaldi's decision was aided by another life threatening incident which occurred last month.
		Fittipaldi was flying an ultralight plane over his orange grove in Brazil when another piece of bad luck hit him.
		Fittipaldi went on the win five races in his "dream season." He had an amazing 12 "top five" finishes in 15 races.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/date/19971002/news006759.html (583 words)

	Christian Fittipaldi Returns
		Fittipaldi got together with Gil De Ferran on the first lap and all hell broke loose.
		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)

	JS Online: Fittipaldi Back at Toronto Indy
		Despite his mishap, Fittipaldi is confident coming back to Toronto because he said he and his car were ready to win a year ago.
		Fittipaldi's new teammate is countryman Cristiano da Matta, who has had four top-five results so far this season.
		Fittipaldi was the first driver to voluntarily wear the Hans (Head and Neck System) Device, which is designed to prevent injuries to the head, neck and spine by limiting the movement of the head in the event of a crash.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/race/ap/jul01/ap-car-cart-fittip071001.asp?format=print (659 words)

	Emerson Fittipaldi Biography \| Sports Stars
		Fittipaldi was a world champion driver by the age of 25, but found himself without a racing job in 1980.
		Emerson Fittipaldi was born December 12, 1946, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
		Fittipaldi's father first took his son to the race track when he was five years old.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/emerson-fittipaldi-spo (224 words)

	GoodLife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If Fittipaldi is not traveling abroad or in the United States demonstrating her painting technique or speaking to audiences about her art, she is painting in her studio eight to ten hours a day.
		Fittipaldi's vision returned that time, but it happened again and within six months her twenty-twenty vision was gone and she was legally blind.
		Fittipaldi is a strong believer in destiny, but she does not sit back and wait for things to happen.
	www.goodlifemag.com /archives/12-02/12-02_blind_ambition.htm (2173 words)

	Motorsport.com: News channel
		Fittipaldi braked hard in order to decide whether to drive high or low on the track to avoid the spinning car.
		While on the brakes, Fittipaldi was passed by Paul Tracy and another car and was able to avoid contact unlike his teammate da Matta who retired from the race.
		Fittipaldi moved from 12th place in the point standings to ninth with his fourth place finish.
	www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=64821 (1288 words)

	Fittipaldi Crash Halts Friday Practice
		Fittipaldi's car got loose when he clipped the curbing at the apex of the turns, got sideways and hit the wall backwards with the gearbox first.
		Fittipaldi's accident did cause enough damage to the wall to cancel all remaining events of the day.
		Fittipaldi before his accident was third at 20.916 seconds (177.625 mph).
	www.speedcenter.com /news98/sc_n0529_98.html (433 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Fittipaldi back in CART as owner
		Fittipaldi, who won the 1989 CART title to go with two Formula One titles, will look to become the only person to win a Champ Car title as a driver and an owner.
		Fittipaldi and Dingman become the 19th entrants to race in the 2003 Bridgestone Champ Car World Series.
		Although Fittipaldi retired from racing in 1996, he remained close to the circuit, serving as promoter for an event in Rio de Janeiro and also holding the series television rights in Brazil where viewership surpasses that in the United States.
	espn.go.com /rpm/cart/2003/0210/1506835.html (415 words)

	Emerson Fittipaldi
		Fittipaldi will be the best of the new generation." That had been at the end of the sixties and for a long time the career of the man with the long whiskers and the deep scars in his face ran perfect.
		When Fittipaldi won, at home in Brazil was carnival and all Brazilian boys had only one wish concerning their personal career: Grand Prix driver.
		When the whole project finally had collapsed, Fittipaldi was at the end, financially and as a human being, because also his marriage with the Englishwomen Mary Helen (who later only named herself Maria Helena) had broken into pieces.
	www.research-racing.de /fittipaldi.htm (1049 words)

	Los Angeles Alternative » The King of Downtown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jim Fittipaldi is a self-described “social bridge between artists and buyers.” He has been at the center of the downtown art scene for the last 18 years, representing over 30 artists from downtown and around the world, but traditional terms like “dealer” and “collector” are woefully inadequate for the role he plays.
		Fittipaldi is perhaps best known for the wildly popular speakeasies he ran out of his old Molino Street space before it succumbed to downtown’s virulent pandemic of loft-osis.
		Konrad lauds Fittipaldi’s ability to make a good match between the collector and the artist—to find a good home for each piece where it will have significance to the people who live with it.
	www.laalternative.com /index.php/2006/06/02/the-king-of-downtown (860 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fittipaldi to open new phase of career (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	A1GP: Fittipaldi enjoys single seater return. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 (591 words)

	Emerson Fittipaldi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Emerson Fittipaldi racing in the [[Indianapolis 500 in 1994.]] Emerson Fittipaldi (born December 12, 1946, São Paulo, Brazil) was a highly successful open-wheel racer, winning championships in both Formula One and CART.
		Fittipaldi didn't return to the race track after the injury but in 2003 he made a return to Champcars as a team owner.
		Fittipaldi's nephew, Christian has also raced Formula 1 and CART and as of 2003 was working on a NASCAR career.
	emerson-fittipaldi.iqnaut.net (615 words)

	rpm.espn.com: Fittipaldi, Mears set for Busch debuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because he has no points in the Busch Series, Fittipaldi knew he had to be among the 36 fastest drivers to make the 43-car field.
		Fittipaldi's qualifying effort came about two-thirds of the way through the session and he slid from 24th to 33rd before he could finally enjoy his effort.
		Asked about his future, Fittipaldi said he is nearly 100 percent certain he will remain in CART in 2002 "and probably into the future." He added, though, that a couple more Busch races could be part of his schedule next year.
	espn.go.com /rpm/bgn/2001/1109/1276009.html (559 words)

	JS Online: Road weary: Fittipaldi has had run of tough luck
		And even if he were, Fittipaldi has endured so many lousy days at the racetrack in the past year that his first victory in the CART FedEx Championship Series seems almost as if it happened in another lifetime.
		Fittipaldi has, in no particular order, crashed, been hit by Gil de Ferran, run into de Ferran, listened to his engine blow, toasted his tires while attempting an aggressive pass and scrambled out of "the barbecue on the beach," when his car went up in smoke on the streets of Long Beach, Calif.
		Fittipaldi also missed the Chicago race because he was knocked unconscious in a crash during practice.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/race/aug00/cart17081600.asp (658 words)

	Fittipaldi to make Winston Cup debut at Phoenix: 11/6/02
		Fittipaldi wasn't supposed to trade in the keys to his open-wheel racer for a set to a stock car until next season.
		It won't be Fittipaldi's first time in a stock car -- he finished 39th after crashing in a Busch series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway last November -- and he's tested for the Pettys this season, most recently last week at Phoenix.
		Fittipaldi didn't even get interested in NASCAR until last year, when he attended the night race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-02/11-06-02/c06sp140.htm (615 words)

	ESPN.com - Fittipaldi brought suit nearly four years ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fittipaldi sued Castroneves nearly four years ago, alleging breach of contract with his company, Fittipaldi USA, Inc. Fittipaldi said the contract provided he would guide the young racer's career, find sponsorships for races and negotiate merchandising agreements, endorsements and appearance fees.
		In return, Fittipaldi USA would receive a "percentage of driver's compensation, prize monies, and revenues." That contract, Fittipaldi contended, was violated when Castroneves signed with Roger Penske's racing team in 1999 without first consulting with Fittipaldi USA.
		Castroneves countersued, claiming Fittipaldi did not live up to terms of the deal, including failure to provide "$1 million in sponsorship funds in 1999" payable to Hogan Racing, Castroneves' former team.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1729897&type=story (261 words)

	Arie Luyendyk, Emerson Fittipaldi - 1990 "Indianapolis 500"
		Fittipaldi and Unser traded quick speeds back and forth, during practice, with Little Al's 228 mph lap, the Friday before qualifications, the fastest lap of the month.
		Like most everyone else, I was pumped up for the "return match" between Fittipaldi and Unser Jr., and didn't think too much the other principals, Mears, Danny Sullivan, Mario, Michael or Bobby Rahal winning the "500." I didn't consider Luyendyk a possible winner.
		When Fittipaldi faded, Rahal assumed the lead, but as the race entered its final third, Luyendyk was coming on fast.
	www.bjwor.com /ariein90.html (1135 words)

	Grandprix: Fittipaldi a big boost
		Fittipaldi's addition is a big boost to a series that has lost many marquee names in recent seasons.
		But Fittipaldi, a two-time Formula One champion who won the CART title in 1989, believes CART is poised for a turnaround.
		Fittipaldi, 56, has owned a race team before, and it didn't go well.
	sptimes.com /2003/02/21/news_pf/Grandprix/Fittipaldi_a_big_boos.shtml (541 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Other sports / Auto racing news / Fittipaldi can't find NASCAR ride
		Christian Fittipaldi's hopes of finding a full-time ride in NASCAR are over for the time being.
		The younger Fittipaldi, a longtime open-wheel star who raced in Formula One and CART, attempted to make the move to NASCAR's top series in 2003 with Petty Enterprises but couldn't come up with enough sponsorship to make it work.
		Fittipaldi said he has "big expectations" for this year.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/autoracing/articles/2005/04/14/fittipaldi_cant_find_nascar_ride (484 words)

	RacingOne - Nascar Racing: Auto Racing, Nascar News, Racing News, Nascar Online, Nascar 2006, Nascar Drivers, Nascar, ...
		Fittipaldi, who was had a history of potentially serious injuries, suffered a grade 1 concussion following the incident.
		Fittipaldiâs victory was the second of his six-year champ car career.
		It was also especially sweet after he failed to finish at the first 500 mile race of the season in Michigan, a race where he ran with the leaders until a crash that could have been more dangerous than it turned out to be.
	www.racingone.com /article.aspx?artnum=4600 (825 words)

	Lisa Fittipaldi, The Mind's Eye Foundation
		Lisa Fittipaldi was determined to regain her independence, ignore the stereotypes and substantiate her abilities.
		Lisa Fittipaldi is in the infancy of her career in exploring the figure and since 1998 has added the street scene that depict vignettes of life to her repertoire.
		In April of 1999, Lisa Fittipaldi began a non profit, tax exempt charity called THE MINDS EYE FOUNDATION (www.mindseyefoundation.org) as a response to educating the public about blindness and as an advocate for the approximately 1,000,000 visually impaired, blind and hearing impaired children in the United States.
	www.artbabyart.com /foa/lisa/fittipaldi.htm (787 words)

	Champ Car > Fittipaldi-Dingman Racing Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fittipaldi will be making his first venture into Champ Car team ownership, while Monteiro will likewise be making his first career start when the season opens up at St. Petersburg.
		Combining a mixture of his celebrity status with his entrepreneurial instincts, Fittipaldi has built a successful business career since retiring as a race car driver.
		Fittipaldi’s claim to fame came in 1972 when the he won his first Formula One title at age 25.
	www.champcarworldseries.com /Teams/Team.asp?ID=283 (634 words)

	Race 2 Win: UAW-GM Quality 500 - Christian Fittipaldi Notes
		Fittipaldi and the team tested at the track to prepare for this weekend’s events.
		An open-wheel star, Fittipaldi, 33, is a former two-time CART winner (California Speedway and Road America) and Formula One World Championship driver.
		Fittipaldi is the only driver to run full time in NASCAR’s top series and to have raced full-time in Formula One and CART.
	www.race2win.net /wc/03/race/lms2/cf.html (718 words)

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