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[HistoryFan]

Perhaps it was also a training for his engagement in GP Masters...
Unfortunately that series was shut down...

Is there a picture of Danner 2005 in F3000?

[Bewlib]

Perhaps it was also a training for his engagement in GP Masters...
Unfortunately that series was shut down...

Is there a picture of Danner 2005 in F3000?

You are exactly right. It was for training for GP Masters!

[hansfohr]

Is there a picture of Danner 2005 in F3000?

I couldn't find any.

As far as age is concerned the Italian Gianni Giudici is hard to beat. In 2006 he competed in a F3000 race at Monza, 1st round of the F3000 International Masters series. He had just turned 60!

[Richard Jenkins]

Nope, Christian Danner was much older!

Twenty years after winning the inaugural F3000 title in 1985 he had a one-off outing for Durango in the 2005 Italian F3000 championship at Misano, aged 47!

I made clear in that post that that the ages and the list referred to International F3000 but not to any regional F3000/F. Nippon series

[HistoryFan]

Yes, but we also can mention here drivers from national F3000 series!
There was already the question about that...

[HistoryFan]

No picture about Danner 2005 at Durango?

[plutoman]

I made clear in that post that that the ages and the list referred to International F3000 but not to any regional F3000/F. Nippon series

If you're looking at regional series, then Nigel Smith would have been about 45 when he raced in the Silverstone round of the 1996 British F2 (F3000) championship.

[HistoryFan]

David Coulthard will test the new GP2 car for 2011...

[Formula Once]

Nelson Piquet tested an F3000 Ralt in 1992 when he was involved with Olivier Beretta's career

[HistoryFan]

involved in his career? In what way?

[Formula Once]

involved in his career? In what way?

He kind of managed him and the Nelson Piquet Racing-team that ran him in F3000 in 1992

[HistoryFan]

The team only existed in 1992, didn't it? Who ran the team? Piquet himself?

[Gert]

The team only existed in 1992, didn't it? Who ran the team? Piquet himself?

Nigel Stepney, I think

[arttidesco]

Tony Trimmer must have been around 46 when he started in the inaugural round of the British F3000 championship, which I believe was at Thruxton in changeable weather conditions. I remember getting wet but having pix of some of the cars in bright sunshine. Wonder where those pics got too ....

[Richard Jenkins]

Just to confirm that having now confirmed Severino Nardozi 's (note spelling) birthdate as the 4th June 1946 - that when he tried in 1995, he was 49 years of age.

Therefore the top 5 for the International F3000 championship should be;

Severino Nardozi, 49 years, 6 months, 11 days (1995)
Pierre Chauvet, 45 yrs, 3 months, 2 days (1988)
Guido Dacco, 44yrs, 10 months, 9 days (1987)
James Taylor, 42 yrs, 11 months, 8 days (1998)
Val Musetti, 42 yrs, 8 months, 15 days (1985)

To put that in perspective, at the same race Nardozi raced in his last F3000 event, Tarso Marques got fastest lap. Marques was/is 30 years younger!

[Thundersports]

Tony Trimmer must have been around 46 when he started in the inaugural round of the British F3000 championship, which I believe was at Thruxton in changeable weather conditions. I remember getting wet but having pix of some of the cars in bright sunshine. Wonder where those pics got too ....

Arti it was Brands he also competed in the final round of 1989 again at Brands.

[marcm]

If you did count the national F3000 series, David Mercer would have been 47 in the final British F2 race.

[HistoryFan]

Takuya Izawa is the oldest GP2 driver to collect points. But which driver was older than Izawa in F3000 last time?

[reynard883]

If you count the British F3000 (F2) series,  Francis Phillips raced in 1996 (Silverstone).  The Monoposto racer was in his mid 40's i would say.

[Richard Jenkins]

Time to revise this again - much to my surprise, Guido Dacco claimed he was five years OLDER than he actually was.. it's normally the other way.

 

A few sites recorded it at the time - http://s11.photobuck...469388106604433 - but the brilliant Adriano Brunelli, who is the man who keeps coming up with the goods with the Italian's and birthdates got confirmation from Limbiate's local council:

 

From: a***a@comune.limbiate.mb.it
subject: richiesta informazioni

 

Buonasera,

in riferimento alla sua richiesta dagli atti di Stato Civile del Comune di Limbiate

risulta essere nata una persona con le generalità' di

DACCO' GUIDO il 10/09/1947 - deceduto a Lecco il 29/07/2006

Da controlli effettuati anche presso gli archivi cimiteriali non risulta essere sepolto presso il Comune di Limbiate.

Distinti saluti

[Mekola]

We could also mention the other F3000 series.
There were some series in Argentinia and Mexico, too, I think? And in Australia?
Were there also such old drivers?

In Argentina is the Mecánica Argentina Fórmula 1, once a national series now a regional one.

That series, recently, has the oldest formula driver who ever been started a race, Orlando Sotro, who did his last start at his 82 years old.

Unfortunately, Sotro passed away last year.

[HistoryFan]

Fantastic story!

[HistoryFan]

what about the Formula 3.5 V8? The series which is held under different names since 1998:

 

Giuseppe Cipriani is driving with 51 years in 2017!