Paolo Barilla

Template:Short description Template:BLP sources Template:Infobox person Paolo Barilla (born 20 April 1961) is a businessman and winner of the 1985 24 Hours of Le Mans. A former Formula One driver who raced for the Minardi team, Barilla is now the Deputy Chairman of the Barilla Group and, as of January 2017, had a net worth of US$1.39 billion.<ref name="Forbes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Racing career

Barilla started racing in 1975 and won the Italian 100cc karting title the following year. He entered Formula Fiat Abarth in 1980 and the next year moved up to Formula 3, in which he won some races and finished third in the Italian Championship. He then entered Formula 2 in 1982 with Minardi, but between 1983 and 1988 he concentrated in sports car racing, winning 24 Hours of Le Mans by a three-lap margin in 1985, among other victories, in the Joest Racing Porsche 956, co-driven at various times with Klaus Ludwig, Paul Belmondo, Marc Duez and Louis Krages (also known at the time as John Winter).

In 1987, Barilla returned to single-seaters and raced in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, before returning to Minardi in 1989 for a test. This test gave him the chance to replace Pierluigi Martini at Suzuka that year and afterwards was signed to drive for the team in 1990. Barilla was not quick enough to qualify regularly and was replaced before the end of the year by Gianni Morbidelli.

In 2014, Barilla won the Monaco Historic Grand Prix in the Formula 3 class driving a Chevron B34.

Barilla was featured in a 2017 documentary about the restoration of a Ferrari 312B historic Formula 1 race car.Template:Cn

Business career

In 1990 Barilla retired from racing and joined his family's businesses. Upon his return to the corporation, he briefly filled in as the CEO from 1999 to 2000 before taking a more permanent position as a Deputy Chairman.<ref name="Barilla Group">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2010 he was appointed President of the Industrial Association AIDEPI (Associazione delle Industrie Dolciarie e Pastaie Italiane), established in the same year.<ref name="Aidepi">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From 2010 onwards, he held numerous membership positions until he was appointed, in 2014, Vice-president of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation, a multidisciplinary and independent thinking center that works on food sustainability.<ref name="Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2016 Barilla was elected President of the International Pasta Organization (IPO), a non-profit association dedicated to increasing consumption and awareness of pasta, promoting consumer understanding of the nutritional value and health benefits of food.<ref name="Adnkronos">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

From March 2017 to December 2018, he was the Chairman of the Italian Food Association (Unione Italiana Food), and since 1 January 2019, he has taken on the role of Deputy Vice-Chairman, a position aligned with the commitments taken to protect the industry, both nationally and internationally.<ref name="Unione Italiana Food">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Since July 2020 he is a member of the Confindustria Executive Council (Consiglio Direttivo).<ref name="Cavalieri del lavoro">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Racing record

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Template:Tooltip	Pts
Template:F2	Minardi Team	Minardi Fly 281	Ferrari	SIL	HOC	THR	NÜR	VAL	MUG	PAU	PER Template:Small	SPA					NC	0
			BMW										DON Template:Small	MIS	MAN
Template:F2	Minardi Team Srl	Minardi Fly 281B	BMW	SIL Template:Small	HOC Template:Small	THR Template:Small	NÜR Template:Small	MUG Template:Small	VAL Template:Small	PAU Template:Small	SPA Template:Small	HOC Template:Small	DON Template:Small	MAN Template:Small	PER Template:Small	MIS Template:Small	NC	0
Template:F2	Minardi Team Srl	Minardi M283	BMW	SIL	THR	HOC	NÜR	VAL	PAU	JAR	DON	MIS	PER	ZOL Template:Small	MUG		NC	0
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Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Template:Tooltip	Pts
1986	San Remo Racing	March 85B	Cosworth	SIL	VAL	PAU	SPA	IMO	MUG	PER	ÖST	BIR	BUG Template:Small	JAR	NC	0
1987	Pavesi Racing	Ralt RT21	Cosworth	SIL Template:Small	VAL Template:Small	SPA Template:Small	PAU Template:Small	DON Template:Small		BRH Template:Small	BIR Template:Small	IMO Template:Small	BUG Template:Small		NC	0
		Ralt RT20							PER Template:Small					JAR Template:Small
1988	Cobra International	March 88B	Cosworth	JER Template:Small											17th	3
	Spirit TOM's Racing	Reynard 88D			VAL Template:Small	PAU Template:Small	SIL Template:Small	MNZ Template:Small	PER Template:Small	BRH Template:Small	BIR
	Jordan Racing											BUG Template:Small	ZOL Template:Small	DIJ Template:Small
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Complete Japanese Formula 3000 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Pts
1989	PIAA Nakajima Racing	Mugen Honda	SUZ Template:Small	FUJ Template:Small	NIS Template:Small	SUZ Template:Small	SUG Template:Small	FUJ Template:Small	SUZ Template:Small	SUZ Template:Small	11th	6

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Template:Tooltip	Pts
Template:F1	Minardi Team SpA	Minardi M189	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN Template:Small	AUS	NC	0
Template:F1	SCM Minardi Team	Minardi M189	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	USA Template:Small	BRA Template:Small															NC	0
		Minardi M190				SMR Template:Small	MON Template:Small	CAN Template:Small	MEX Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	HUN Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	POR Template:Small	ESP Template:Small	JPN	AUS
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24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Template:Tooltip	Template:Tooltip
Template:24hLM	Template:Flagicon Martini Racing	Template:Flagicon Alessandro Nannini Template:Flagicon Jean-Claude Andruet	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C	135	DNF	DNF
Template:24hLM	Template:Flagicon Martini Racing	Template:Flagicon Mauro Baldi Template:Flagicon Hans Heyer	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C1	275	DNF	DNF
Template:24hLM	Template:Flagicon New-Man Joest Racing	Template:Flagicon Klaus Ludwig Template:Flagicon Louis Krages	Porsche 956B	C1	374	1st	1st
Template:24hLM	Template:Flagicon Joest Racing	Template:Flagicon Klaus Ludwig Template:Flagicon Louis Krages	Porsche 956B	C1	196	DNF	DNF
Template:24hLM	Template:Flagicon Toyota Team Tom's	Template:Flagicon Tiff Needell Template:Flagicon Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 88C	C1	283	24th	15th
Template:24hLM	Template:Flagicon Toyota Team Tom's	Template:Flagicon Hitoshi Ogawa Template:Flagicon Ross Cheever	Toyota 89C-V	C1	45	DNF	DNF
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External links

• Profile on F1 Rejects