Fisichella drove over 200 races in Formula 1 for a host of teams, including Ferrari, Benetton and Rena🌜ult. 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 the top step of ♏the podium. He is also still racing, competing in the 2023 Italian GT Championship for Scuderia Baldini 27.

Reflecting🅷 on his F1 career with , Fisichella was asked if there was anyone in the sport he couldn’t stand. H♎e responded with his 1997 Jordan teammate, Ralf Schumacher.

“There was not a good relatioꦿnship with Ralf Schumacher, in♋ 1997 at Jordan”, he revealed. “He felt superior despite the fact that I beat him.”

He went on to let out a joke Ralf Schumacher made following the Argentinian Grand Prix that year, which th💞e 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 br𓄧other. While the two were never teammates at any point, Fisichella said that he and Michael shared many good times.

“(Be♊tter) 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 up꧙ as we know, fate is sometimes cruel and I am also thinking of what happened to Alessandro Zanardi.”