Roberto Ravaglia

Sixth in 1996

Roberto Ravaglia only scored one career victory in the British Touring Car Championship, in 1996 on his way to sixth in the points in his only full season in the category.

He had dipped his toe in the water with the BTCC in 1995 by taking part in four meetings, which comprised six races.

Ravaglia, who had progressed through single-seaters and got up to F3 level, was a BMW man through and through. He first drove for Schnitzer in 1985 in tin-tops, and he remained faithful to the German firm throughout and won titles in a 635CSI, an M3 and in the 318i.

He was a two-time European Touring Car champion when the series ran in the late 1980s and became the world champion in 1987 in the first incarnation of the global championship. The Italian raced in DTM, which he topped in ’89, and the German Super Tourenwagen competition.

He took Spa and Nurburgring 24 Hours victories, as well as numerous domestic series in his homeland. He stepped back from the cockpit after tackling the FIA GT Championship in a Schnitzer Motorsport-operated Mclaren F1 GTR in 1997.