Esteban Tuero

Esteban Tuero (born 22 April 1978) is an Argentine former racing driver who, after a meteoric rise, raced in Formula One for the Minardi team in 1998. At 19, he became the then-third-youngest (now eighth youngest) Formula One driver in history, when he landed his seat alongside Shinji Nakano (picture-below), but left the championship at the end of the season without scoring a championship point.

Though Minardi counted on Tuero staying with the team for the 1999 season, to the surprise of the team management, he walked into a meeting and said he would leave Formula One and move back to his home country. In 1999, he joined the Argentine TC2000 touring car racing series, where he struggled to make an impact by finishing outside the top ten overall.