Giambattista Giannoccaro

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Giambattista Giannoccaro (born 22 October 1960 in Fasano, Italy) is an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur. He owns his own racing team, Scuderia Playteam [1] , which he has competed for.

He is an Italian GT Champion and Spanish GT Champion. He also competed in the FIA GT Championship in the 2007 season with his own team. [2] He finished first in the GT2 Class in the 2006 Mil Milhas.

He tested for his own team for A.C. Milan in the 2008 Superleague Formula season [3] . He won the Spanish GT Championship in 2006 with the Ferrari 360 GTC and the Italian GT Championship with the Maserati MC12 pairing with the Finnish car mate Tony Vilander.

He founded and managed Playteam Soleja, an Advertising and Sports Marketing Agency, managing communication activities for brands such as BMW, Luxottica, Pirelli, Enel, Sara Assicurazioni, Auchan, Abarth to name a few.

Among the various Playteam achievements it is worth mentioning the making of the film for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, [4] broadcast worldwide during the Opening Ceremony and the advertising campaign "Romania Piacere di conoscerti" [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] commissioned by the Romanian Government in 2008.

Between 2004 and 2006 Playteam also promoted the Italian Golf leg of the Ladies European Tour, with BMW as title sponsor.

In 2012 set sails with his wife on their Outremer 55 Catamaran for a long cruise around the world which toock them to sal the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, pushing their bows to remote destinations as the Galapagos Islands, Easter Island, Patagonia and in February 2016 being the first catamaran to reach the Antarctic Polar Circle [10] .

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References

  1. ↑ Giambattista Giannoccaro (2022-10-31). Presentazione Scuderia Playteam Sarafree 2008 . Retrieved 2024-11-10– via YouTube.
  2. ↑ "FIA GT - Driver Biography: Giambattista Giannoccaro". FIA GT. Archived from the original on 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
  3. ↑ Giambattista Giannoccaro (2022-10-31). SF Promo 21 June . Retrieved 2024-11-10– via YouTube.
  4. ↑ Blu Dalì (2013-05-24). Spot Olimpiadi di Torino 2006 . Retrieved 2024-11-10– via YouTube.
  5. ↑ "Romania, piacere di conoscerti?". SOCIALCOM (in Italian). 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  6. ↑ "«Romania piacere di conoscerti» in pista a Monza".
  7. ↑ smilano71 (2008-10-15). Romania Piacere di conoscerti . Retrieved 2024-11-10– via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ smilano71 (2008-10-15). Romania Piacere di conoscerti . Retrieved 2024-11-10– via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ wwwbk10 (2008-11-22). Romania-Piacere di conoscerti - CASA ROMANIA-www.bk10.it reportage eventi . Retrieved 2024-11-10– via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "Per la prima volta un catamarano al Circolo polare antartico - Uomini e Mare - Mare". ANSA.it (in Italian). 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
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