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. Unfortunately his independent BMW M3 was getting rather long in the tooth by this point and as such he barely featured as a front runner in the class - finished way down in eleventh in class.

Cecotto was picked up by the works BMW Team Schnitzer alongside 1990 Class C champion Marc Hessel ahead of 1991 - with the updated BMW M3 Evo being one of the stronger packages in the new Super Touring ruleset. Cecotto's season got off to a great start at Symmons Plains Raceway - taking a win in the first sprint race of the season.

Complete WTCM Results

Year	Team	Car	Class
1988	Prodrive	BMW E30 M3	C I	Template:AUS				Template:USA								Template:FRA		Template:GBR				Template:BEL					WDC	Pts	Class	Pts
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E			43rd	6	12th	91
				BAT 21	BAT 21	FUJ 20	FUJ 18	GLN 13	GLN 16			KYA Ret	KYA Ret
1989	Prodrive	BMW E30 M3	C I			Template:USA				Template:FRA						Template:FRA		Template:GBR		Template:BEL				Template:AUS			WDC	Pts	Class	Pts
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E			22nd	53	1st	280
				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
1990	Prodrive	BMW E30 M3	C I			Template:USA				Template:GBR		Template:FRA						Template:FRA		Template:GBR		Template:BEL				Template:AUS	WDC	Pts	Class	Pts
				E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	S	E	N/A	0	11th	102
				FUJ 26	FUJ 33	GLN DNQ	GLN DNQ	LAG 21	LAG 29	BRH DNQ	BRH DNQ	PAU DNQ	PAU DNQ	BRN 21	BRN Ret	MNZ 26	MNZ 27	CHA Ret	CHA 29	BIR DNQ	BIR DNQ	SPA Ret	SPA 35	NUR Ret	NUR 31	BAT Ret
1991	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW E30 M3 Evo	M	Template:AUS				Template:USA				Template:GBR	Template:FRA					Template:GBR				Template:BEL					WDC		Pts
				F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	E	F	F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S	E	F	S	F		2nd		177
				AUS 5	AUS 1	JPN 3	JPN 4	USA 4	USA 2	AFR 8	AFR 3	RAC Ret	PAU 5	CZE 8	CZE 4	ITA 6	ITA 2	GBR 4	GBR 1	SWE 4	SWE 5	SPA 3	GER 7	GER 4	MAC 3