Pietro
Fittipaldi

Pietro Fittipaldi was born in Miami on 25 June 1996. He is the grandson of two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi and the older brother of racing driver Enzo. After karting he moved into stock car racing in 2011 and won the track championship at Hickory Motor Speedway in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. In 2012 he won a race and finished fifth in the championship. He moved to Europe in 2013 and won the Protyre Formula Renault Championship in 2014. He then took the 2015-16 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 title and, in 2017, the World Series Formula V8 3.5 with six wins. From 2017 to 2019 he was a Formula E test driver for Jaguar.

Fittipaldi became a Haas test driver in 2019. At the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix he stood in for Romain Grosjean, who was unable to race after his accident in Bahrain, making Fittipaldi the fourth member of the Fittipaldi family to compete in Formula One. He started from the back of the grid and finished seventeenth, last of the drivers still running. He deputised for Grosjean again at the season finale in Abu Dhabi. He qualified nineteenth, moved up to seventeenth on the grid after penalties for other drivers, and had a slow pit stop. He again finished last of the drivers still running, in nineteenth place. Those two races remained his only starts, and he contested both under the Brazilian flag. He ended the world championship in 23rd place. He stayed on as Haas reserve driver in the following seasons, sharing the role with Oliver Bearman in 2024. For 2026 he was announced as a development driver for the new Cadillac F1 Team.

Away from Formula One, Fittipaldi raced in several other series. In 2018 he was a part-time IndyCar Series driver for Dale Coyne Racing. In May 2018 he had a crash at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and returned to racing about two and a half months later. In 2019 he finished fifteenth in the DTM for Audi Sport Team WRT. In 2021 he drove only the oval races in the IndyCar Series and was the fastest rookie qualifier at the Indianapolis 500. In 2023 he contested the World Endurance Championship with Jota. That year he won the LMP2 class at the 6 Hours of Monza. He raced a full IndyCar season for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in 2024. In 2025 he drove in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Pratt Miller Motorsports and in the European Le Mans Series for Vector Sport.

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