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The little Roman's English may be patchy and he had one dodgy half-season at Benetton back in 2000 but there must be another reason why Ferrari, McLaren and Williams are so reluctant to give him a chance.
At least he took his maiden grand prix win at Brazil in 2003 but - typical of Fisi's luck - he was denied his moment of podium glory when the stewards initially awarded victory to Kimi Raikkonen by mistake.
1973 Born in Rome, Italy.
1983 Started racing karts.
1988 Italian karting champion.
1989 Runner-up in European karting series and fourth in world championship.
1990 Third in Hong Kong international kart meeting.
1991 Second in the European Karting Championship. Also made his car racing debut in Italy's Formula Alfa Boxer series.
1992 Graduated to Italian Formula 3, finishing eighth overall for the Ravarotto team after winning the final round.
1993 Third overall in the Italian Formula 3 Championship with two wins for Ravarotto. Was runner-up in the Monaco Formula 3 race.
1994 Dominant Italian Formula 3 Champion with ten wins for RC Motorsport. Won Monaco Formula Three race.
1995 Tenth in International Touring Car Championship for the works Alfa Romeo team with second place at Mugello his best result.
1996 Sixth in International Touring Car Championship for works Alfa Romeo team with two second places. Also contested eight Grands Prix with Minardi and finished eighth in Canadian Grand Prix.
1997 Moved to Jordan and ended the year ranked eighth overall with second place in the Belgian Grand Prix his best result. Also led the German Grand Prix.
1998 A move to Benetton soon bore fruit, with points coming easily in the first half of the season. Second places in the Monaco and Canadian Grands Prix boosted him to fifth in the rankings, but they were followed by just one sixth place in the second half of the season as he fell to eighth place overall.
1999 Giancarlo's second season with Benetton was a disappointment as the team struggled to find any grip from its chassis and after points aplenty in the early races and another second place in the Canadian Grand Prix, again fell away and Giancarlo fell from fourth overall after Montreal to ninth at season's end.
2000 Finished sixth in the championship for Benetton, second in Brazil and third in Montreal and Monaco.
2001 Performs brilliantly in dog of a car, taking a memorable third place at Spa. 11th overall with eight points but Renault decide against renewing his contract and he moves back to Jordan.
2002 Again 11th overall, this time with seven points.
2003 Takes first F1 win at Interlagos but denied his moment of glory on the podium by stewards' mistake. Scores only one more point all year as Jordan struggle.
Drivers: Rubens Barrichello | Gerhard Berger | David Coultard | Giancarlo Fisichella | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Mika Hakkinen | Eddie Irvine | Olivier Panis | Michael Schumacher | Ralf Schumacher | Jacques Villeneuve
Teams: Ferrari | Jordan | McLaren | Renault | Williams
