Fisichella drove over 200 races in F⛄ormula 1 for a host of teams, including Ferrari, Benetton and Renault. He was notably teammate to Fernando Alonso in both of his championship🐻 winning seasons at Renault, in 2005 and 2006.

Now 50-years-old, the Italian is the last of his nation to stand on th🍰e top step of the podium. He is also still raci🐈ng, competing in the 2023 Italian GT Championship for Scuderia Baldini 27.

Refl🍌ecting on his F1 career with , Fisichella was asked if there was anyone in the sport he couldn’t stand. He responded with his 1997 Jordan teammate, Ralf𒁏 Schumacher.

“There was not a good relationship with Ralf Schumacher, in 1997 at Jordan”, he revealed. “He felt s✱uperior despite the fact that I beat him.”

He went on to let out a joke Ralf Schumachℱer made following the Argentinian Grand Prix that year,ꦍ which the Italian did not take kindly to: “In Argentina I was second and he was third. He touched me and after the GP he made a damn joke: ‘Oh well, I'll offer him a pizza’. From then on it was all uphill with him.”

In contrast, Fisichella revealed he had a much better relationship with Michael Schumacher, Ralf’s brother. While the two were never teammates at any point, Fisichella said that he and Michael shared many good times♋.

“(Better) as a person, as well as a driver, of a very different calibre”, said Fisichella, when comparing Michael to Ralf. “I had an excellent relationship with (Michael) Schumi: 🎶we have a passion for football and he always played at least 2-3 matches. 

“We shared track, football, dinners, karaoke: it's a pity that it ended up as we know, fate is sometimes cruel and I am also thinking♊ of what happened to Alessandro Zanardi.”