Max Papis

Max Papis NASCAR Cup Series career Car no., team 13 - Germain Racing 2009 position 43rd Best finish 43rd - 2009 First race 2008 Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Sonoma) Wins Top tens Poles 1 NASCAR Xfinity Series career 2009 position 127th Best finish 74th - 2008 First race 2006 Zippo 200 (Watkins Glen) Wins Top tens Poles 2 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career Truck no., team 9 - Germain Racing 2009 position 34th Best finish 34th - 2009 First race 2008 Chevy Silverado 350K (Texas) Wins Top tens Poles 2

Formula One World Championship career Nationality Italian Active years 1995 Teams Footwork Entries 7 Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First entry 1995 British Grand Prix Last entry 1995 European Grand Prix

Massimiliano "Max" Papis (born October 3, 1969) is a racing driver who has competed in several top-level motorsports series such as Formula One and Champ Car. He has three Champ Car victories. He is the son-in-law of Emerson Fittipaldi. His son's godfather is fellow Italian Alex Zanardi. He last drove the #13 Geico Toyota Camry for Germain Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Formula One

Papis made his Formula One debut for Footwork at the 1995 British Grand Prix.

After a spell as the Lotus team's test driver in 1994, Papis replaced Gianni Morbidelli in the Footwork team for seven races in the middle of the 1995 Formula One season, as he brought valuable sponsorship to the cash-strapped outfit. Despite being a race-winner in Formula 3000, he often struggled with the unfamiliar car, and was occasionally outpaced by his much-maligned team-mate, Taki Inoue. He also proved to be an unlucky driver, suffering a spectacular puncture and suspension failure on his début race at Silverstone due to clipping the pit lane wall after a tire change, being left on the grid at Hockenheim due to a transmission failure, and spinning on dust and oil kicked up by David Coulthard at the Ascari Chicane on the first lap of the Italian GP, causing a pile-up and a restart. However, he only missed out on a point in the restarted race when he was overtaken by Jean-Christophe Bouillon's Sauber on the last lap. When Morbidelli returned, Papis was out of a drive and headed to America for 1996.

Champ Car

He moved to CART Champ Car racing in 1996 as a replacement for Jeff Krosnoff who was killed in the previous race in Toronto. In 1999 he joined the more competitive Rahal team, almost winning the US 500 before running out of fuel, and finishing 5th in the series. He broke his duck by winning the 2000 season-opener, but failed to finish in the championship top 10. In 2001 he won twice and finished 6th overall, but was dropped by the team, mainly due to two collisions with team-mate Kenny Bräck. He started 2002 with the Sigma team before they folded, and did a partial season with PK Racing in 2003, but has mostly concentrated on sportscars since 2001, remarking that "Champ Car needs me more than I need it" as the series struggled to fill its grid for 2003 after many teams defected to the IRL. Papis also raced in the 2002 and 2006 Indianapolis 500 races for Cheever Racing.

NASCAR

He made his NASCAR debut in August 2006, competing in the Busch Series race at Watkins Glen International Raceway for McGill Motorsports. He attempted to qualify for the NEXTEL Cup race but failed to make the race. He is also credited with having helped develop Toyota's Champ Car engine.

In 2007 he drove the #36 car in the NASCAR Busch Series for McGill Motorsports following the release of Tim Sauter from the ride. Papis made his Sprint Cup Series debut at Infineon Raceway in 2008, piloting the #66 Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet in place of regular driver Scott Riggs. He was also scheduled to drive the #64 car for Rusty Wallace, Inc. on three road course races in the 2008 Nationwide Series. Haas CNC Racing hired Papis to drive the #70 Chevrolet Monte Carlo at the course at Watkins Glen in the Sprint Cup Series in August 2008. He was announced as the driver of the #13 Geico Toyota in 18 races in the 2009 Sprint Cup.

In his first Cup season with a dedicated ride, Papis recorded a career best 8th place finish at Watkins Glen and 15th starting position at Fontana. He also recorded 12th place finish at Infineon Raceway. After Watkins Glen, the team announced that Papis would be replaced by Casey Mears and would compete in the team's Truck Series entry.

"Mad Max"

Papis earned the nickname "Mad Max" at the 1996 24 Hours of Daytona during his last stint at the end of the race. Although his second-place Ferrari 333SP had been battered due to collisions, some of its bodywork held together by tape, Papis unlapped himself by passing the race leader (the Doyle Racing Riley & Scott-Oldsmobile driven by Wayne Taylor) and proceeded to set some of the fastest laps of the entire race. Taylor was nursing his car around the track due to an overheating problem and otherwise would have been able to cruise to a win, but Papis' pace and the slowing Oldsmobile suggested that Papis could theoretically take the win from him. Papis' speed was achieved at the cost of maximum fuel consumption and although he drove down the pit lane at full speed to re-fuel (pit lane speed limits were imposed the next year), Taylor was still ahead by 64 seconds at the end of the race.

Career results

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
1993	Vortex Motorsport	Reynard/93D	Ford Cosworth	DON 4	SIL Ret	PAU 5	PER Ret	HOC Ret	NÜR 15	SPA Ret	MAG Ret	NOG 6	10th	6
1994	Mythos Racing	Reynard/94D	Judd	SIL 7	PAU Ret	CAT 1	PER 4	HOC Ret	SPA 11	EST 13	MAG 6		6th	13

Complete Formula One results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1995	Footwork Hart	Footwork FA16	Hart V8	BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA 7	POR Ret	EUR 12	PAC	JPN	AUS	22	0

Complete CART results

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Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Rank	Points
1996	Team Arciero-Wells	MIA	RIO	SRF	LBH	NAZ	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIC	MDO Ret	ROA 9	VAN	LS Ret						26th	4
1997	Team Arciero-Wells	MIA 19	SRF 14	LBH Ret	NAZ Ret	RIO 13	GAT Ret	MIL Ret	DET 11	POR Ret	CLE Ret	TOR 15	MIC 8	MDO 14	ROA 15	VAN Ret	LS 14	FON 12					24th	8
1998	Team Arciero-Wells	MIA Ret	MOT 13	LBH Ret	NAZ 14	RIO Ret	GAT Ret	MIL 16	DET 18	POR 11	CLE 12	TOR 8	MIC Ret	MDO 14	ROA 11	VAN 9	LS 12	HOU 5	SRF Ret	FON Ret			21st	25
1999	Team Rahal	MIA 5	MOT 16	LBH 9	NAZ 13	RIO 4	GAT 5	MIL 13	POR 8	CLE 16	ROA 5	TOR 5	MIC 7	DET Ret	MDO 5	CHI 4	VAN Ret	LS 3	HOU 4	SRF 2	FON 2		5th	150
2000	Team Rahal	MIA 1	LBH Ret	RIO Ret	MOT 8	NAZ Ret	MIL 7	DET 2	POR Ret	CLE Ret	TOR 7	MIC 9	CHI Ret	MDO 4	ROA 7	VAN 8	LS 16	GAT 6	HOU Ret	SRF Ret	FON Ret		14th	88
2001	Team Rahal	MTY 12	LBH 17	FTW C	NAZ Ret	MOT 6	MIL 8	DET 11	POR 1	CLE 19	TOR 8	MIC Ret	CHI 13	MDO Ret	ROA 16	VAN Ret	LAU 2	ROC 11	HOU 9	LS 1	SRF 9	FON 2	6th	107
2002	Sigma Autosport	MTY 9	LBH 3	MOT 18	MIL 3	LS 13	POR	CHI	TOR	CLE	VAN												19th	32
	Fernández Racing											MDO 15	ROA	MTL	DEN	ROC	MIA	SRF	FON 14	MXC
2003	PK Racing	STP	MTY	LBH	BRH	LAU	MIL	LS	POR 15	CLE 12	TOR 16	VAN 9	ROA 4	MDO 9	MTL 9	DEN	MIA	MXC	SRF	FON C			17th	25

Indy 500 results

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2002	Dallara	Infiniti	18	23	Cheever
2006	Dallara	Honda	18	14	Cheever
2008	Dallara	Honda	DNQ		Rubicon

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2005–06	Italy	GBR SPR	GBR FEA	GER SPR	GER FEA	POR SPR	POR FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	UAE SPR	UAE FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	IDN SPR	IDN FEA	MEX SPR	MEX FEA	USA SPR 19	USA FEA 7	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	14th	46

External links

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