Pizzonia joined Jaguar for 2003 alongside Mark Webber but got things off to a terrible start by rolling their new X-Type road car at the Circuit de Catalunya with a camera crew on board.
Matters didn’t improve behind the wheel of the F1 car and he was swiftly dropped following the British Grand Prix.
He joined Williams as test driver alongside Marc Gene, and got back in the race seat in 2004 after Ralf Schumacher was injured and Gene failed to impress in two race starts for the team.
In 2005 he again got a drive after Nick Heidfeld was injured and crashed three times in five starts.