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Giancarlo Fisichella started the 2005 season with a commanding win under difficult personal circumstances, but has since faded away while his teammate dominates the Championship battle. Matt Bishop finds similarities in Fisico's situation with another famous Grand Prix winner. And if the Italian pays attention, there's a lesson to be learned from that comparison
Giancarlo Fisichella reminds me of... Carlos Reutemann. Gifted beyond the imagination of most of his peers in the art - yes, art - of superintending the nervy high-speed interface between hot rubber and hot asphalt, he nonetheless seems to amount to a tad less than the sum of his parts.
If Reutemann was "enigmatic" and "all moody introspection", as the reporters of the time famously used to phrase it, Giancarlo is... what? Less intellectual by far than the man christened "Lole" by his Argentine adorers, Fisico (a less convoluted nickname for a less convoluted character) is also difficult to know.
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