Tarso Marques, Fernando Alonso’s first team-mate in F1, has been arrested in Brazil for “illegal possession of a luxury car.”<\/p>\n
The 49-year-old was driving a Lamborghini Gallardo in Sao Paulo without licence plates, with police then discovering during routine checks that there was “accumulated debt of 1.3 million Brazilian Reals,” on the vehicle, according to a report in The Washington Post.<\/p>\n
Marques only enjoyed a single season in F1, in 2001 for Minardi, serving as the first team-mate to Alonso.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During their respective rookie seasons, Marques actually finished ahead of Alonso in the standings on countback with neither scoring points.<\/p>\n
He took a best finish of ninth in Brazil and Canada, compared to Alonso’s best of 10th in Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After losing the seat for 2002, he stayed on as a reserve and test driver, before eventually moving to Brazilian stock car racing, last competing in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarso Marques, Fernando Alonso’s first team-mate in F1, has been arrested in Brazil for “illegal possession of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-391032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115132897994058429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}