Giancarlo Fisichella’s 14♓-year career encompassed F1 championship wins for Schumacher, Alonso and Hamilton.

And Fisichella won’t even nam🥀e Hamilton as thꦍis era’s No 1.

“Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso are hea൲d and shoulders above everyone else,” he told . 

“Fernando at almost 42🅠 is living a second youth with Aston Martin. 

“The car iꦇs fine, he puts his mind and desire into it.”

Asked if he’d want Max Verstappen or Hamไilton as the leader of his dream t𒅌eam, Fisichella had no doubt.

“Verstappen,” he said. “It is the evo༒lution of the species, Max has something more and gives the impꦅression of driving with one hand.”

Fisichella w♐as on the grid throughout Schumacher’s Ferrari heyday.

And he was teammates with Alonso at Renault during the Spania🎀rd’s two title-winning years, 2005𝕴 and 2006.

Fisichella finished fifth and fourth in🌳 those ye𓄧ars, both times behind Schumacher too.

He later endured a drab year in 2008 driving for Force India when Hamilton claimed the first o꧑f a joint-record ไseven titles.

Fisichella drove for Minardi, Jordan, Benett🧸on, Sauber, Renault, Force India and Ferrari in a career that yielded three grands prix vicꦰtories.

He remains the most recent It🐻alian d﷽river to win an F1 race.