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From Sky News:
ALBORETO KILLED ON TEST DRIVE.
Former Formula One driver Michele Alboreto has been killed in a car crash during a test drive on a circuit in Germany, according to reports.
Alboreto, 44, won five grand prix races in the 1980s and was a member of the Porsche team which won the 1997 Le Mans 24 Hours race and the Audi team which finished third there last year.
Alboreto started racing in 1976, made his Formula Three debut in 1978 and won the European title in 1980.
The Italian was given his Formula One chance by Tyrrell in 1981 and won his first grand prix in Las Vegas the following year.
Alboreto also won the U.S. Grand Prix for Tyrrell in Detroit in 1983, the last victory for a car with a normally aspirated engine before the turbocharged cars monopolised the competition.
He switched to Ferrari and won the Belgian Grand Prix in 1984 and the Canadian and German Grands Prix in 1985 when he finished second in the drivers' championship behind Alain Prost.
That was the zenith of his Formula One career. He returned to Tyrrell in 1989 and drove for a succession of teams - Lola, Arrows, Footwork and Minardi - before bowing out of F1 in 1994 and moving to sportscar racing.
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