Gilles Panizzi

What strikes me about Gilles Panizzi is how completely he embodied a niche specialty. He came up the French way, cutting his teeth on asphalt rallies across his home country, and that surface eventually became his signature. I respect drivers who turn a particular terrain into their fortress rather than chasing every condition equally. Born in 1965 on the Mediterranean coast at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, he belongs to that generation of French rally talent that France seems to produce in waves. I'd love richer detail on his career arc, but even the outline tells me this was a craftsman, not a dabbler.

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Name (English)

Gilles Panizzi

Name (Japanese)

ジル・パニッツィ

Reading

じる・ぱにっつぃ

Born

September 19, 1965 (age 61)

Origin

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Occupation

rally driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Panizzi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q511480

Tags

• Alpes-Maritimes
• rally driver

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.