Birthday
1959/02/23 (65 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Born and educated in Italy, Ascanelli began his racing career in 1985 as a calculation engineer at Ferrari. After two years of number-crunching he moved across to Fiat's rallying program with Abarth, working as an on-event engineer but by the end of the year he had returned to Ferrari and began working as Gerhard Berger's race engineer. It was the start of a relationship which lasted for three seasons before Berger left Ferrari to join McLaren. Ascanelli was then taken to Benetton by his former...Read more
(1993) The Team: A Season With McLaren
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