Johnny Cecotto

Alberto "Johnny" Cecotto (born 25 January, 1956, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan former Grand Prix motorcycle racer and racing driver.

In 1975 he became the youngest ever, at the time, motorcycle road racing champion when he won the title at the age of 19. After a string of years mitigated by injuries and unreliability, he switched to auto racing where he achieved success in both Formula One and international touring car racing.

His son, Johnny Cecotto Jr., is also a racing driver who most notably drove in Formula One during the 2010s.

World Touring Car Masters

Cecotto made his WTCM debut in the first race of the series in 1988, taking part in the 'flyaway' races away from Europe with the Prodrive team.

He expanded this programme into a full-time drive in 1989, a season in which he beat the highly-funded works outfits of BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Renault to take the Class C honours ahead of defending champion Tim Harvey.

Cecotto remained with Prodrive for a third season in 1990.

Complete WTCM Results

Year	Team	Car	Class																						WDC	Pts	Class	Pts
1988	Prodrive	BMW E30 M3	C	Template:AUS				Template:USA								Template:FRA		Template:GBR				Template:BEL			43rd	6	12th	91
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E
				BAT 21	BAT 21	FUJ 20	FUJ 18	GLN 13	GLN 16			KYA Ret	KYA Ret
1989	Prodrive	BMW E30 M3	C			Template:USA				Template:FRA						Template:FRA		Template:GBR		Template:BEL				Template:AUS	22nd	53	1st	280
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E
				FUJ 11	FUJ 15	GLN 16	GLN 20	KYA DNQ	KYA DNQ	PAU 20	PAU 28	BRN DNQ	BRN DNQ	MNZ 13	MNZ 19	CHA Ret	CHA 25	BIR 16	BIR 20	SPA 9	SPA 7	SPA 5	SPA 10	BAT Ret