Former F1 driver Antonio Pizzonia arrested in the United States for assault

Pizzonia in handcuffs The news comes from the Brazilian portal Remador: the former Formula 1 driver Antonio Pizzonia was arrested by the US authorities after an episode of violence that occurred in Montgomery County in Texas. Following the payment of the bail established by the local court, the Brazilian was released on probation. What happened According to the first information gathered by the Remador website, the accident occurred on the sidelines of a karting race, following an argument between Pizzonia’s son and the father of another driver. Antonio Pizzonia would have intervened by physically attacking the latter. F1 career Antonio Pizzonia arrived in Formula 1 in 2003 as a Jaguar driver. For him 11 games without points before the dismissal. In 2004 he then replaced Ralf Schumacher in Williams (the team for which he was a test driver) for 4 grands prix, collecting three seventh places. Another experience again with Williams in 2005, when he took over from Nick Heidfeld for the last 5 races, with another seventh place as his best result. Former drivers arrested Recently there was the case of Adrian Sutil, who ended up in handcuffs in Germany for illegal trafficking of luxury cars, but the list of former drivers who have had problems with the law is long.
In 2021 it was Jean Alesi who was arrested (then not convicted in the trial), for a firecracker that damaged his ex-brother-in-law’s window. In 2011 JJ Letho was first convicted of manslaughter and drunk driving for a boating accident and later had his conviction overturned because it could not be established who was at the helm. In 2008 Eddie Irvine was the protagonist of a brawl at the Hollywood nightclub in Milan with the son of the then mayor of Milan Letizia Moratti: he was sentenced to six months in prison six years later.
In 2000 Jos Verstappen was sentenced to a five-year suspended prison sentence in Belgium for assault after a scuffle on a karting track. Finally, in 1991 the case of Bertrand Gachot, who argued with a taxi driver and used pepper spray: he was arrested just on the eve of the Belgian GP. In his place Eddie Jordan hired Michael Schumacher: the rest, as they say, is history…