Giancarlo Fisichella reveals the F1 teammate he 'couldn't stand'

Fisichella drove over 200 races in Formula 1 for a host of teams, includin🍎g Ferrari, Benetton and Renault. He was notably teammate to Fernando Alonso in both of his championship winning seasons at Renault, in 2005 and 2006.
Now 50-years-old, the Italian is the last of his nation to stand on the top ♔step of the podium. He is also still racing, competing in the 2023 Italian GT Championship for Scuderia Baldini 27.
Reflecting on his F1 career with , Fisichella was asked if there was anyone in the spo🔥rt he couldn’t stand. He responded with his 1997 Jordan teammate, Ralf Schumacher.
“There was not a good re♉lationship with Ralf Schumacher, in 1997 at Jordan”, he revealed. “He felt superior despite the fact that I beat him.”
He w𒀰ent on to let out a joke Ralf Schumacher made following the Argentinian Grand Prix that year, which the Italian did not take kindly to: “In Argentina I was second and he was third. He touched me and after the GP he made a damn joke: ‘Oh welﷺl, I'll offer him a pizza’. From then on it was all uphill with him.”
In contrast, Fisichella revealed he had a much better relationship with Michael Schumacher, Ralf’s brother. While the two were never teammates at any🅠 point, Fisichella said that he and Michael shar𓆉ed many good times.
“(Better) as a person, ๊as well as a driver, of a very different calibre”, said Fisichella, when comparing Michael to Ralf. “I had an excellent relationship with (Michael) Schumi: we have a passion for footb൩all and he always played at least 2-3 matches.
“We shared t๊rack, football, dinners, karaoke: it's a pity that it ended up as we know, fate is sometimes cruel and I am also thinking of what happened to Alessandro Zanardi⛄.”