Emerson Fittipaldi is Brazilian racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each.
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Emerson Wojciechowska Fittipaldi is a retired Brazilian automobile racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once. Fittipaldi was born on 12 December 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil. For 1970, Fittipaldi moved up to F2 by joining the Lotus semi-works Team Bardahl campaigning Lotus 59B. With six finishes in the points and four on the podium, he ended the eight-race season in third place behind Clay Regazzoni and Derek Bell. While this result was very impressive for the newcomer to the series, the spotlight was on Fittipaldi that year because of his activities in Formula One instead.
At age 14, Fittipaldi was racing motorcycles, and at 16, hydroplanes. While racing one day, his brother Wilson blew over at 70 mph (110 km/h) and landed upside down. Wilson was uninjured in the accident, but it prompted both Fittipaldi brothers to stop competing in boat racing and focus solely on racing land vehicles. In 1967, Fittipaldi won the 6 Hours of Interlagos in a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia at the age of 20. Following his Formula One career, Fittipaldi moved to the American CART series, achieving successful results, including the 1989 CART title and two wins at the Indianapolis 500 in 1989 and 1993, the final at an unprecedented 46 years old.
According to sources, Emerson Fittipaldi net worth or net income is estimated to be between $1 Million – $5 Million dollars at the age of 76 years old. The Brazilian driver has made such an amount of wealth from his primary career as Race Car Driver. The 75-year-old has done well, and many predict that Emerson Fittipaldi’s worth and assets will continue to grow in the future.
Emerson Fittipaldi’s racing salary details aren’t disclosed yet. His net worth is said to be around $1 Million – $5 Million dollars at the age of 76 years old. Almost all of that money has been earned on race car tracks. He has won a fair bit of his fortune as a Formula One race car driver. He has Brand endorsement deals worth million dollars as well. As of 2022 his monthly income is rumored to be around $4 Million.
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In 2016, Fittipaldi established Fittipaldi Motors, and along with Pininfarina and HWA AG, created his first sports car project, the Fittipaldi EF7. A concept was revealed at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. The EF7 Vision Gran Turismo is a two-seater supercar with a 600bhp 4.8-litre V8 engine.
The famous driver chose to buy shipyards and equipment in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, to build yachts up to 200′. Fittipaldi Yachts was thus in business and had already designed and sold two 110’footers with the valuable collaboration of the notorious Luiz de Basto design studio who was also instrumental for the development of a 125 foot motor yacht.
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