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Even with lots of work still do be done this list have reached a state
where it must be considered one of the most complete and accurate ever assembled on
the subject. This has only been possible due to the tremendous help from people
all over the world, each of them experts of their local drivers and events.
Short biographies of drivers with BLUE background, will come up in due time.
If you have any information about any driver with GREEN background, please
contact me!
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Vico Pagliano (I) |
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Vico Pagliano won the first edition of the Cuneo-Colle della Maddalena
mountain climb in 1925, probably the longest (67 km) event of this kind in motor
sport history. Not to be confused with Carlo Pagliano.
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José Joaquín Palacio Pantaleón de Palacio y Power (E) |
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* 27 Jul 1901
† 27 May 1989 |
Bilbao
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Joaquín Palacio Power was an amateur motorcycle and car driver, who had started his career in the
1920s. As for other Spanish drivers of the period, Palacio's list of appearances is very thin,
due to the difficulties in practising motor-sports in that country. In the
1950s Palacio drove the Spanish sports car Pegaso.
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1927: 5 Targa Florio /
DNA San Sebastian GP /
DNF Spanish GP
1933: 4 Penya Rhin GP /
DNA Spanish GP
1934: 5 Penya Rhin GP
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Peter DePaolo (USA) |
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* 6 Apr 1898
† 26 Nov 1980
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laguna Hills, California |
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Nephew to Ralph de Palma, Peter de Paolo began racing in 1922. In 1924 he became Dusenberg works driver.
He won the Indianapolis 500 in 1925 and was Indycar Champion in 1925 and again in 1927.
In 1930 he retired from racing but 1934 he was lured back by Harry Miller to race the four wheel
drive Miller in the Tripoli GP and Avus GP.
He then signed to drive Maseratis for Ecurie Braillard but in the first race at Penya Rhin
his racing career ended in a bad crash and a fractured skull.
He returned to USA to work for different automobile related companies.
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1925: 5* Italian GP
1934: 8 Tripoli GP /
DNF AVUS GP /
DNF Penya Rhin GP
DNS French GP
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Papineau (Papinaud) - SEE: "Marcel Lanciano"
Luigi Parenti ( ) |
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1931: 3* French GP
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Reginald "Reg" Parnell (GB) |
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* 2 Jul 1911
† 7 Jan 1964 |
Derby, Derbyshire
Derby, Derbyshire |
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This Derby pig farmer probably lost the prime of his career due to the war.
He started racing with a MG Magnette in 1935. His driving style was wild, and he ended up losing
his racing licence after being found guilty of an accident a Brooklands 1937 where
Mrs Petre was seriously wounded. In 1938 he instead lent cars to other drivers.
He went on buying and selling racing cars in quite a speculative way and
many famous and less famous racing cars went through his hands, making him a name in the business.
After the war, Parnell had some good runs in national events with a Maserati 4CLT/48 and an
ex-Whitehead ERA. These successes led to guest drive for Alfa Romeo at the first World Championshp
Grand Prix at Silverstone 1950. In 1951 he took Tony Vanderwell's "Thin Wall Special" to victory at
the International Trophy and scored points in two World Championship events. He was also involved with BRM,
Scuderia Ambrosiana and Rob Walker. He then worked as team amnager for Aston Marin and for the Yeoman Credit/Bowmaker
team (BRP) before setting up his own Reg Parnell Racing team with Lola. He died unexpectedly after
complications following a routine appendix operation in Derby 1964. His son Tim took over the team.
6 Formula 1 championship starts, 9 points.
Click here for full biography.
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1936: DNC JCC 200 (Voiturette) /
DNF Donington GP
1937: DNF (heat) Coronation Trophy (Voiturette) /
12 Isle of Man (Voiturette) /
8 JCC 200 GP /
5 JCC 200 (Voiturette)
1939: ? Brooklands Road Championship /
DNA Nuffield Trophy (Voiturette)
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John Godfrey Parry Thomas (GB) |
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* 6 Apr 1884
† 3 Mar 1927 |
Wrexham, Merionethshire, Wales
Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, Wales |
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A large friendy man who smoked a lot and whose teeth looked like "they have been thrown in from a distance".
Born in Wales, Parry-Thomas studied engineering in London and became chief engineer at Leyland Motors. After World War I he started racing at Brooklands and
decided to become a full-time motor-racing driver and race engineer, creating a company with Ken Thomson (later the company became known as Thomson & Taylor).
In 1925 Parry-Thomas decided to challenge the land speed record with a rebuilt ex-Count Zborowski 27 litre Higham that he bought for £125 and renamed "Babs". On 27 April 1926 he made
six runs at Pendine Sands taking the flying km record with a time of 272.459 km/h and the flying mile with 160.075 mph. The next day he improved the records
to 275.229 km/h and 170.624 mph. After having lost the records to Campbell he returned to Pendine Sands in March 1927 but on the return run of the flying mile he lost
control of the car and crashed, receiving a fatal head injury. "Babs" was buried in the dunes at Pendine Sands and remained there for 42 years until dug up and restored.
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1925: DNF Ouverture GP /
DNS French GP
1926: DNS Boulogne GP /
8 JCC 200
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Aleksi Patama (FIN) |
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* 30 Apr 1897
† 24 Dec 1981 |
Karstula, Central Finland
Helsinki |
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Managing director. For almost 40 years Patama manufactured and developed ski bindings. Introduced the rottefella type binding in Finland.
Was victorius in several local ski races and in 1936 he was Finnish senior champion in alpine skiing. He was also active organising sports events.
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1934: DNF Finnish GP
1935: DSQ Finnish GP /
5 Estonian GP
1936: 3 Finnish GP
1937: 3* Flaten (Ice race) /
5 Finnish GP /
5 Kalastajatorpanajo
1939: 3 Finnish GP
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Giovanni Patané (I) |
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* 20 Jan 1905
† 1 Jul 1986 |
Catania
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1926: 9 Coppa Etna (1500cc)
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Antoine Marie Joseph Patissou (F) |
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* 7 Jan 1906
† 6 Mar 1943 |
Nantes
Nantes |
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Garage owner in Nantes. Adddres: rue Ledru-Rollin.
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1927: 7 La Baule GP
1928: DNF La Baule GP
1929: DNF La Baule GP
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Sydenham Armstrong Payn (GB) |
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* 6 Feb 1903
† 22 Sep 1942 |
Dover, Kent
Deal, Kent |
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Grandson of the former Dover Coroner. Solicitor in Dover. Raced at Brooklands including entering a Mercedes at the 1924 Whitsun meeting and a Sunbeam at the 1927 Whitsun meeting.
He took part in the 1931 French Grand Prix with "Bomber" Scott's Delage.
Owned a SE5A and Avro 504K aeroplane (G-AARV) but crashed the latter beyond repair in 1931. During the war he served as a ferry pilot for the Air Transport Auxiliary flying everyting from Spitfires to Blenheims.
Died at at the Victoria Hospital in Deal after a short illness. Buried at St James Cemetery, Dover.
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1931: DNF French GP
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Jean "Carlo" Pedrazzini (CH) |
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* 2 Sep 1909
† 22 Apr 1934
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Locarno
Alessándria |
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Carlo Pedrazzini was born in Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland in an important family from Locarno. Private entrant and driver for Scuderia Siena in 1934.
He alternated races and study in architecture in Zürich. In 1933 with Maserati won the a 2 litre class and made the second fastest time of the day in the Monte
Ceneri hill climb in Ticino. Died after crashing into a wall in the Bordino GP. Before the race Nuvolari had advised Pedrazzini against
competing since the weather conditions were very bad.
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| (Info supplied by Mauro Maiano) |
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1930: DNF Monza GP
1931: DNF Monaco GP /
DNA Italian GP /
DNF (heat) Rome GP (2000cc) /
4 Monza GP (2000cc)
1932: DNA Monza GP
1934: DNF (heat) Bordino GP
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Giorgio Pelassa (I) |
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* 1913
† 1948 |
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A very interesting and unfortunate driver, the Turinese industrialist
and motorcycle racer Giorgio Pelassa had had some tries at Voiturette
racing during 1938 and 1939, after having been initiated - like many
other Italian racing drivers - at the Mille Miglia in 1937. He was about
to have a splendid autumn 1946, racing three times showing excellent
speed and becoming a Grand Prix winner at Barcelona, just to disappear
afterwards, probably already suffering from the unspecified illness that
was going to kill him in less than two years. During 1947 he raced only
at the Mille Miglia where he was once more very fast, before retiring.
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1932: DNA Monza GP
1938: 3* Napels (Voiturette) /
DNA Varese (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
12 Milan (Voiturette) /
DNF Modena (Voiturette)
1939: DNF Napels (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Ciano junior (Voiturette) /
DNS Coppa Acerbo junior (Voiturette)
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Carlo Pellegrini - SEE: Lelio Pellegrini
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Mario Penati (I) |
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From Torino. Scuderia Subalpina driver.
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1934: DNA Bordino GP
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Giovanni Peragallo - SEE: "Max Giorgini"
"Peter" - SEE: Fabris
Mrs. Kathleen Coad "Kay" Petre (née Kathleen Defries) (CDN/GB) |
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* 10 May 1903
† 10 Aug 1994 |
York, Ontario, Canada
Camden, London |
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Born in Canada. Daughter to a barrister with clients in both England and South Africa.
Her husband, solicitor Henry Aluysuis Petre, bought her a Wolseley Hornet in which she started racing. She also
raced Austins, Invicta, a Bugatti and the ex-Cobb 10.5 litre Delage.
Became good friend to Bernd Rosemeyer during his 1937 South Africa trip.
Had a serious crash at the Brooklands Byfleet banking during practice for the 1937 BRDC 500
when her Austin was hit by the tail of Parnell's MG Magnette. She was taken to hospital with severe head
injuries and even though she rallied completely she decided to
retire from racing. Later she worked as a journalist.
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1934: 9 Mountain
1937: 1* L.C.C. Relay
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Letterio Mario Cucinotta Piccolo - SEE: Cucinotta
Carlo Maria Pintacuda (I) |
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* 18 Sep 1900
† 8 Mar 1971
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Firenze (Florence)
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Carlo Pintacuda was another graduate of the "Florentine
school" of talented racing drivers from the 20s, which also comprised
Masetti, Materassi, Brilli Peri and Biondetti. An inheritance had
enabled him to race from 1925 to 1928 when he was reasonably successful
in minor Italian events. After he had run out of money, Alfa Romeo gave
him a ride for the Mille Miglia in 1929. An indifferent drive in what
was going to be his future specialty race led him to disappear from
the racing scene until he succeeded in obtaining an aluminium bodied
Lancia Astura from the important Lancia dealer from Rome, Bornigia. With
the Astura he surprisingly won the gruelling Giro d'Italia
in 1934. He was then invited to test an Alfa Romeo P3 by Scuderia
Ferrari. A victory in the Mille Miglia, in 1935, in a similar car
borrowed from Ferrari, induced Ferrair to sign him. Pintacuda stayed on
with Scuderia Ferrari and then with the Alfa Corse team until 1940, racing
GP cars, Alfettas and sports cars. He won a second Mille Miglia in 1937
and almost a third one in 1938. Ferrari sent him several times to South America
where he won at Interlagos in 1936 and Gavea in 1937 and 1938.
With those 3 victories Pintacuda became a national hero in Brazil. For over 30 years
his name was synonymous for speed. Crazy drivers were called "Pintacudas".
Alfa Corse did not renew Pintacuda's contract after the war. He left for South America as Enrico Platé
had offered him a drive in an old Maserati. While in Argentina, Carlo decided to quit racing, and to
remain in Buenos Aires where he opened an antique shop - "La Spiga" - and lived there peacefully until his death in 1971.
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1927: DNA Coppa Perugina
1928: DNF Mugello Circuit
1929: 5 Rome GP (2000cc) /
2 Mugello Circuit (Voiturette) /
DNS Coppa Ciano
1935: 1* Mille Miglia (sports car) /
DNF Targa Florio /
DNF Tripoli GP /
3 Bergamo GP /
3 Turin GP /
DNF/6* Coppa Acerbo /
3 Modena GP /
3 Lucca GP /
DNF Cosenza GP
1936: 5 Tripoli GP /
2 Tunis GP /
DNF Rio de Janeiro GP /
1 São Paulo GP /
1* Coppa Ciano /
2 Lucca GP /
5 Italian GP /
DNF Modena GP
1937: 1 Mille Miglia (sports car) /
4 Turin GP /
1 Rio de Janeiro GP /
9* Monaco GP /
7* JCC 200 GP /
4* JCC 200 (voiturette)
1938: 1 Rio de Janeiro GP /
1* Spa 24h (sports car)
1939: DNF Tripoli (Voiturette) /
3* Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
2 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette)
1940: 6 Tripoli (Voiturette)
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Piombetti ( ) |
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Not in the official list of licensed Italian racing drivers.
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1929: DNA Alessandria GP
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Francesco Pirlo-Rubino (I) |
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From Naples
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1929: DNA Coppa Ciano
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Giuseppe Pizzolotto (I) |
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From Valdobbiadene.
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1926: DNF Pozzo Circuit
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Jirí Pohl (CS) |
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* 14 Feb 1905
† 1 Dec 1979 |
Libne
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Czech racing driver as was his brother Zdenek.
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Antonio Ponno (I) |
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* 18 Apr 1899
† 26 Sep 1988 |
Teramo
Roseto degli Abruzzi, Teramo |
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1925: DNA Coppa Acerbo
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Porthault - SEE: "Daniell"
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Nino Possamai (L) |
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From Luxembourg. Son of Josef Possamai, proprietor of the "Hôtel Chicago.
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DNA Eifel (Voiturette)
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Count Maurycy Stanislaw Potocki (PL) |
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* 16 May 1894
† 16 May 1949 |
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London, England |
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Estate owner and owner of a Glass Factory. Studied in England before WWI. After taking part as an officer in WWI and the following wars to establish the Polish-Russian borders becamea well-known figure in the Warsaw society
and he was co-creator of the Polish Automobile Club.
As part of the Polish Hunting Association he created good relations with some German dignitares, relations that he used during WW2 several times to release arrested Polish activists.
He was prisoned by the communists in March 1945 but he was freed by the polish resitance and fled to England where he died 1949.
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1930: 2 Lwow GP
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Antony Powys-Lybbe (GB) |
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* 29 Jun 1909
† 10 May 2004 |
Rectory Farm, Streatley-on-Thames, Berkshire
Hyde Heath, Amersham, Buckinghamshire |
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At age of 18 Powys-Lybbe went to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, London for
officer training within the Royal Corps of Signals. He left the army by
1933 and, by and large took up motor-racing. First he raced mostly with Alvises in
various events, both hill-climb and track. In 1935 he acquired a 2.3 Alfa Romeo Monza
and raced that until 1937 when he bought a Talbot, a decision that proved disastrous (The Alfa
is now in Holland, or thereabouts, the Talbot in Australia.)
He got married in 1937 and his son Tim was born the next year. During WW2 Powys-Lybbe stayed in the Signals Corps,
rasing in rank from Lietenant to temporary Lt-Colonel.
After the war he bought the ex-"Raph" Alfa Romeo Tipo B from Thomson & Taylor Ltd. and raced it in short races
as at Goodwood and he had particulary success in Ireland where he could drive at roads with long straights as he did not like
circuit racing. There he won the Wakefield Trophy at Curragh in September 1949 and the Leinster Trophy and Ulster Trophy in 1950.
He retired from racing around 1953 after a race where another driver drove into the crowd, killing himself and
four others. Powys-Lybbe's abiding interest throughout his life was music, particularly Bach.
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1936: DNF JCC 200 /
7 Donington GP
1937: 3 Campbell Trophy /
DNA Isle of Man (Voiturette) /
2 Vila Real /
5 JCC 200 GP /
DNA Donington GP
1938: DNS Cork (Voiturette)
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Carlo de Praez (I) |
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From Bolzano
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Count Luigi "Gigi" Premoli (I) |
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* 16 Apr 1908
† 15 May 1998 |
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Italian Count Premoli started racing in 1929 with a 1100 cc Salmson cycle racerar.
Premoli was a well known technician and improved his Salmson with the
result that he was able to finish second at the 1931 Monza Grand Prix in the 1100 cc class behind José Scaron in the latest Amilcar but left the
6-cylinder Amilcar of Count Arco behind him.
He had other good results like victories at the 1930 and 1931 Coppa Acerbo Junior and Gran Premio delle Voiturette.
For 1932 Luigi Premoli constructed his hybrid racecar BMP (Bugatti Maserati Premoli), engineered by Egidio Galimberti, who combined a 2.3-liter
Bugatti grand prix car chassis, gearbox and wheels with a 2.5-liter, 8-cyl. Maserati engine and front grill.
Premoli won the 1932 Colli Torinesi and then had a serious crash at the Montenero Circuit Race but was fully recuperated for the 1933 season.
The car was thoroughly reworked and improved for 1933 with a
3-liter 8-cylinder Maserati engine. This machine was also called BMP, BPM, MBP or Maserati Special.
He won at Shelsley Walsh spring Meeting and Coppa Ascoli and the next year at Coppa Valsassina.
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1929: DNF Tripoli GP (1100cc) /
DNF Pozzo Circuit (1100cc) /
2 Cremona Circuit (1100cc)
1930: 1/DNF Monza (1100cc)
1931: DNF (heat) Rome GP (1100cc) /
1 Coppa Ciano (1100cc) /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
2 Monza GP (1100cc)
1932: 10 Italian GP /
DNA Nice GP /
DNF Coppa Ciano
1933: DNF Tunis GP /
DNF Bordino GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNF Italian GP /
5 (heat) Monza GP
1934: DNF Tripoli GP /
DNS Coppa Ciano /
4 (heat) Biella GP /
8 Napels GP
1935: DNF Tripoli GP
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Henry Bryce Prestwich (formerly Stadelbauer) (GB) |
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* 10 Apr 1911
† 19 Aug 1949 |
Altrincham, Cheshire
Chew Valley, Greenfield, Yorkshire |
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Henry's father was Otto Stadelbaur, a merchant shipper - a British subject from a Saxony family. Like many with a German sounding name, the family changed their name during the
1914-18 war to acquire a more typically British one.
Prestwich raced a M.G. at the Donington Park Motor Car races in May 1936 and at the same track in the Coronation Trophy races in May 1937. On May 22 1937 he won the 1937 Cork International handicap race in a 1.1L MG K3 Magnette.
Prestwich was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the British army in November 1940. He survived the war only to be tragically killed along with his wife and two of his children on 19th August 1949 whilst passengers on a
British European Airways DC3 flight from Belfast to Manchester which crashed into a hill in mist near Chew Valley, Greenfield, 15 miles (24 km) from Manchester Airport. His son was one of 8 survivors from the 33 on board.
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1938: DNF Cork (Voiturette)
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E. Proal (F) |
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From Paris. Raced the Bugatti T35A (#4567) from 1925 to 1928.
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1926: DNA Provence GP (2000cc)
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Ugo Puma (I) |
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Puma was from the Turin racing milieu, more active after WWII in small capacity sports car racing as an N-D and
Testadoro works driver and in a Fiat-Ermini. He was seen also at the wheel of the rare SVA with Ermini engine in
1950. Puma was then going to become one of the very few Italian drivers in the half-litre F3. His made to order
car was designed by Savonuzzi and built by Conrero and Leone around a powerful Guzzi GP engine mounted at the front.
Puma's Falcone-Guzzi was an excellent car, but no match for the swift rear-engined British cars that dominated
the Formula.
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1935: DNA Turin GP
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Harold Purdy (AUS) |
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* 13 Feb 1902
† 22 Aug 1944 |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
South Kensington, London |
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1926: 3 JCC 200
1927: DNF British GP /
2c/5 JCC 200
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