Michele Alboreto of Italy came in second in the 1985 Brazilian Grand Prix, he won the 1997 24 Hour of Le Mans, and the 2001Twelve Hours of Sebring races; he does on the EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Germany when he was 44 years old.
Alboreto won the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans with the same car as the previous year, but this time alongside Swede Stefan Johansson, another former F1 teammate, and Dane Tom Kristensen, who would later go onto beat Jacky Ickx's record for winning the most Le Mans 24 Hour races. However, a fourth place at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans with the newcomer Audi, a third at the 2000 Le Mans 24 Hours, a victory at the 2000 Petit Le Mans and a win at the 2001 Sebring 12 Hours gave the Italian some final success prior to his death a month after his win at Sebring. In April 2001, Alboreto was performing straight-line speed tests in an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring, near Dresden, Germany. A tyre blow-out caused his car to veer off track and crash into a wall, killing him. Michele Alboreto Michele Alboreto (23 December 1956  25 April 2001) was an Italian racing driver. 
[[Italy]] Italian 25 April 2001(2001-04-25) (aged 44)
EuroSpeedway Lausitz, Germany Le Mans 24 Hours 1997 1st However, a fourth place at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans with the newcomer Audi, a third at the 2000 Le Mans 24 Hours, a victory at the 2000 Petit Le Mans and a win at the 2001 Sebring 12 Hours gave the Italian some final success prior to his death a month after his win at Sebring. Michele Alboreto 
