Emerson Fittipaldi

Emerson Fittipaldi is a semiretired Brazilian automobile racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once.

Emerson Fittipaldi was born in So Paulo, Brazil. He is the younger son of prominent ItalianBrazilian motorsports journalist and radio commentator Wilson Fittipaldi Sr and his wife Jzefa Juzy Wojciechowska, an immigrant from Saint Petersburg, Russia and of Polish and Russian descent. His grandfather Ivan Wojciechowski was an officer in the tsarist army. He was named after American author and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Both his parents had raced production cars shortly after the Second World War and Wilson Sr was also responsible for the first Mil Milhas race in 1956, in So Paulo, having been inspired by the 1949 Italian Mille Miglia. Emerson became a motorsports enthusiast at an early age.

Source: Wikipedia