Education: He graduated from College in 1981 

Professional Profile: his career in powerboating in 1984 racing in an italiano promotional category: OCN with 500cc stock engine In the 1985 he won the Italian Championship in the same category In the same year he started working in the family company. The family has a long tradition in producing wood chair started since 1878. This new task forced him to stop racing until 1990. In 1990 he started racing with catamaran in the class S/750 In 1992 ha passed in the class S/850 In 1993 he had his first good results in this class with a 3rd place in the Italiana and in the Eruopean Championship. During the following years he won the Italian and European Championship andd he reached his most important result with the 1¡ place in the World Championship of F/850. In the 1997 he partecipated in 4 F1 races. In 1999 he started again to race in the F1 world Championship