Esteban Tuero

Quick Facts

Full Name	Esteban Tuero
Occupation	Race Car Driver
Date Of Birth	Apr 22, 1978(1978-04-22)
Age	46
Country	Argentina
Horoscope	Aries

Esteban Tuero Biography

Esteban Tuero is one of the most popular and richest Race Car Driver who was born on April 22, 1978 in Argentina. Formula One driver who became the third-youngest F1 driver of all time in 1998.

Michael Schumacher was the eventual winner at the 1998 Japanese Grand Prix race that would be Tuero’s last. was the eventual winner in The 1998 Japanese Grand Prix race that would be the last race for Tuero.

Esteban Eduardo Tuero (born 22 April 1978) is an Argentine racing driver who raced for the Minardi Formula One team in 1998. At 19, he became the then- third-youngest (now eighth youngest) F1 driver in history when he landed his seat alongside Shinji Nakano, but left the championship at the end of the season.

Esteban Eduardo Tuero was born at a time when the likes of Nelson Piquet and Alain Prost were just beginning their careers. The Argentine Grand Prix was based near to his home, at the Oscar Gálvez race circuit. This meant that Formula One was popular where he grew up and, though the Grand Prix was discontinued in 1982, the sport was one of the biggest in the country.

He was also the father of a driver in a race.

Esteban Tuero Net Worth

Esteban Tuero is one of the richest Race Car Driver from Argentina. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Esteban Tuero 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started his racing career young by racing in karts around the age of 7.

He was injured in the neck during the 1998 Japanese Grand Prix that ended his brief Formula One career.

His final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix, would also be his final race in a top-level single-seater series. Starting 21st on the grid, he crashed into Toranosuke Takagi on lap 29, after accidentally hitting the throttle rather than the brakes. His Minardi vaulted Takagi’s Tyrrell and upon landing he damaged a number of vertebrae in his neck. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher who was challenging McLaren’s Mika Häkkinen for the Drivers’ Championship, passed the accident spot where carbon fibre debris were littering the race track. Schumacher then suffered a catastrophic rear tyre failure forcing him to retire and thus handing Häkkinen his first World Drivers’ Championship. Meanwhile, Tuero’s sole Formula One season proved fruitless with no points and no ranking in the Drivers’ Championship.

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In the 1996 Formula Three season, Tuero finished fourth in his first race, and he crossed the line first in his second race, only to be disqualified due to using illegal fuel. In the non-championship Monaco event, he started on the front row alongside future F1 driver Jarno Trulli, battling with him before eventually punting him at the hairpin on Lap 17. Tuero retired due to a flat battery later in the race.

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Esteban Ranked on the list of most popular Race Car Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Argentina. Esteban Tuero celebrates birthday on April 22 of every year.

Though Minardi had counted on Tuero staying with the team for the 1999 season, to the surprise of the team he walked into a meeting and said he would leave Formula 1 and move back to his home country. In 1999, he joined the Argentinian TC2000 touring car racing series, where he struggled to make an impact by finishing outside the top ten overall. He later won two races at the wheel of a Volkswagen Polo which was one of the three official Volkswagen cars on the grid. After that, Volkswagen discontinued his official link with the team while they were developing new cars for the series. The new car, a Volkswagen Bora, was far from reliable. In fact, Tuero was leading some races with a nice gap and then he had to retire due to mechanical failures.