Sure. I may have already mentioned this in some thread here: Giancarlo Baghetti is the most succesful rookie ever. In 1962, he won the first two GPs in which he participated, at Syracuse and Napoli (those GPs did not count toward the WDC, as was normal in these days).icef1mkd wrote:I really need to know if someone before Lewis has had the same or similar results in his first two, three races?
thank you in advance
Then he won his first "real" GP at Reims-Guex, the French GP, becoming the only rookie that has ever achieved that. It is the only rookie to have achieved a hat-trick, of course, if you count his first two non-championship participations.
He then went to get a 4th and a 5th place at the Dutch and Italians GPs and then another 2nd place at (another non-WDC GP) the Mediterranean GP.
Next year he joined ATS catastrophic team with Phil Hill and he did not qualify in 5 starts. The following year he moved to Scuderia CentroSud and the best he achieved was a 7th place.
His career was over: he had a few more races with Brabham, Reg Parnell and Lotus (one with each one in 1965, 1966 and 1967) before a huge crash at Monza. He retired and became a photographer (for Playboy!
) and a journalist. You can read the article I helped to write at Wikipedia, that says esentially the same.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giancarlo_Baghetti
The Forix.com article is more complete:
http://www.forix.com/8w/baghetti.html
Giancarlo Baghetti at French GP, running ahead of Porsches, with the only Ferrari "Shark Nose" and the famous Ferrari Dino V6 in the race, creating a statistical blip never equalled.
