Paolo Barilla

Paolo Barilla
Born	(1961-04-20) 20 April 1961 (age 60) Milan, Italy
Occupation	Businessman
Title	Deputy chairman, Barilla Group
Relatives	Guido Barilla (brother) Luca Barilla (brother)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1989 - 1990
Teams	Minardi
Entries	15 (9 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1989 Japanese Grand Prix
Last entry	1990 Spanish Grand Prix

Paolo Barilla (born 20 April 1961 in Milan, Italy) is a businessman and a former Formula One driver who raced for the Minardi team. He is now the Deputy Chairman of the Barilla Group and, as of January 2017, had a net worth of US$1.39 billion.^[1]

Racing career[]

Barilla started racing in 1975 and won the Italian 100cc karting title the following year. He entered in 1980 and the next year moved up to Formula 3, in which he won some races and finished third in the Italian Championship. He then entered Formula 2 in 1982 with Minardi, but between 1983 and 1988 he concentrated in sports car racing, winning 24 Hours of Le Mans by a three-lap margin in 1985, among other victories, in the Joest Racing Porsche 956, co-driven at various times with Klaus Ludwig, Paul Belmondo, Marc Duez and Louis Krages (also known at the time as John Winter).

In 1987 Barilla returned to single-seaters and raced in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, before returning to Minardi in 1989 for a test. This test gave him the chance to replace Pierluigi Martini at Suzuka that year and afterwards was signed to drive for the team in 1990. Barilla wasn't quick enough to qualify regularly and was replaced before the end of the year by Gianni Morbidelli.

Barilla was featured in a 2017 documentary about the restoration of a Ferrari 312B historic Formula 1 race car.

Business career[]

In 1990 Barilla retired from racing and joined his family's businesses. Upon his return to the corporation, he briefly filled in as the CEO from 1999 to 2000 before taking a more permanent position as a Deputy Chairman.^[2]

In 2010 he was appointed President of the Industrial Association AIDEPI (Associazione delle Industrie Dolciarie e Pastaie Italiane), established in the same year.^[3] From 2010 onwards, he held numerous membership positions until he was appointed, in 2014, Vice-president of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation, a multidisciplinary and independent thinking center that works on food sustainability.^[4]

Barilla will then be elected in 2016 President of the International Pasta Organization (IPO), a non-profit association dedicated to increasing consumption and awareness of pasta, promoting consumer understanding of the nutritional value and health benefits of this food.^[5]

From March 2017 to December 2018, he was the Chairman of the Italian Food Association (Unione Italiana Food), and since 1 January 2019, he has taken on the role of Deputy Vice-Chairman, a position in the sign of continuity with the commitments taken to protect the industry, both nationally and internationally.^[6]

Since July 2020 he is a member of the Confindustria Executive Council (Consiglio Direttivo).^[7]

Racing record[]

Complete European Formula Two Championship results[]

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

Complete International Formula 3000 results[]

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

24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1983	Martini Racing	Alessandro Nannini Jean-Claude Andruet	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C	135	DNF	DNF
1984	Martini Racing	Mauro Baldi Hans Heyer	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C1	275	DNF	DNF
1985	New-Man Joest Racing	Klaus Ludwig Louis Krages	Porsche 956B	C1	374	1st	1st
1986	Joest Racing	Klaus Ludwig Louis Krages	Porsche 956B	C1	196	DNF	DNF
1988	Toyota Team Tom's	Tiff Needell Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 88C	C1	283	24th	15th
1989	Toyota Team Tom's	Hitoshi Ogawa Ross Cheever	Toyota 89C-V	C1	45	DNF	DNF

Complete Formula One results[]

(key)

References[]

External links[]

• Profile on F1 Rejects