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| Born | (1975-05-08)8 May 1975 (age 50) La Plata,Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |  Argentine |
| Active years | 2000–2001 |
| Teams | Minardi,Prost |
| Entries | 21 |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Careerpoints | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 2000 Australian Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2001 San Marino Grand Prix |
Gastón Hugo Mazzacane (born 8 May 1975)[1] is anArgentineracing driver. He participated in 21Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the2000 Australian Grand Prix. His father, Hugo Mazzacane, named him after the late Argentine touring car racerGastón Perkins.[2]
Mazzacane has also raced inTurismo Carretera and was the firstTC Pick Up champion in 2018.[3]
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Mazzacane is often known as a "pay driver".[4][5] He began his Formula One career in 1999 as the test driver forMinardi. In late February2000, it was announced that he would be the teammate ofMarc Gené in the race team. "I intend to learn over the first half of the season and then I feel I will have the confidence to perform well," Mazzacane told the press at the launch of theMinardi M02. His debut year in Formula One began with a broken gearbox at his first race, the2000 Australian Grand Prix, followed by a tenth place in Brazil. He went on to outqualify Mazzacane atImola, a feat he later accomplished twice more. TheGerman Grand Prix was a relative high point for him; after outqualifying his teammate, he finished 11th. His highlight in the spotlights this season was on a damp Indianapolis track, when he famously overtookMika Häkkinen, who was struggling after an early gamble on dry tyres. After running up to third without stopping, he ran over his pitcrew and dropped out of the race later. Nevertheless, he finished 11 of the 17 races that year and ranked third among drivers with the most kilometres raced.
At the start of 2001, Mazzacane tested forArrows, but finally settled into theProst team, taking over the seat of theSauber-boundNick Heidfeld. He beat CART'sOriol Servia for the Prost spot, and was announced as the second driver in January2001. However, the2001 San Marino Grand Prix was his final Formula One race. Alain Prost fired him by using a performance clause in his contract, and the vacancy was filled byLuciano Burti, who had recently been sacked fromJaguar Racing.
Mazzacane would be the last Argentinian to drive in Formula One until the2024 Italian Grand Prix whenFranco Colapinto drove forWilliams.
Mazzacane signed a contract with the reformed DART team a/k/aPhoenix, which had plans to race in the2002 season. However, it was not to be as the team was barred from racing.
Mazzacane then went to the US and competed in the last half of the 2004Champ Car season with theDale Coyne Racing #19 car.
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
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| 1996 | Auto Sport Racing | NÜR Ret | PAU DNQ | PER 14 | HOC Ret | SIL 11 | SPA 19 | MAG Ret | EST 10 | MUG Ret | HOC Ret | 22nd | 0 | ||
| 1997 | Auto Sport Racing | SIL 10 | PAU DNQ | HEL Ret | NÜR 10 | PER 15 | HOC 10 | A1R 17 | SPA 11 | MUG 10 | JER Ret | 28th | 0 | ||
| 1998 | Team Astromega | OSC 6 | IMO 7 | CAT Ret | SIL 6 | MON 12 | PAU 9 | A1R Ret | HOC Ret | HUN Ret | SPA DNQ | PER 13 | NÜR Ret | 21st | 2 |
| 1999 | GP Racing | IMO | MON | CAT | MAG | SIL DNQ | A1R | HOC | HUN | SPA | NÜR | NC | 0 | ||
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| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | WDC | Points |
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| 2000 | Telefónica Minardi Fondmetal | MinardiM02 | FondmetalV10 | AUS Ret | BRA 10 | SMR 13 | GBR 15 | ESP 15 | EUR 8 | MON Ret | CAN 12 | FRA Ret | AUT 12 | GER 11 | HUN Ret | BEL 17 | ITA 10 | USA Ret | JPN 15 | MAL 13† | 21st | 0 |
| 2001 | Prost Acer | ProstAP04 | AcerV10 | AUS Ret | MAL 12 | BRA Ret | SMR Ret | ESP | AUT | MON | CAN | EUR | FRA | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | USA | JPN | 25th | 0 |
† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.
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| Year | Team | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Rank | Points | Ref |
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| 2004 | Dale Coyne | 19 | LBH | MTY | MIL 16 | POR 13 | CLE 12 | TOR 6 | VAN 18 | ROA 18 | DEN 15 | MTL 12 | LS 13 | LVS 15 | SRF | MXC | 17th | 73 | [8] |
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Gastón Mazzacane bought his way onto the Formula 1 grid at the start of 2000 but his 21 starts proved he did not belong at the top level. Even the cash-strapped Prost Grand Prix invoked a performance clause in his contract to replace him with Luciano Burti after four races in 2001.
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