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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!
Juan Ernesto / Jean Baptiste Ernest Zanelli de Vescovi (RCH/F) |
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* 2 Nov 1906
† 19 Aug 1944 |
Iquiqu, Chile / Florens, Italy?
Toulouse, France |
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Born in Chile Zanelli raced in GP racing and hillclimbs in 1929 to 1936.
In a Bugatti he won the 1929 and 1930 Bugatti GP at Le Mans, finished 8th in Alessandria in 1929 and 2nd in 1930,
2nd at the 1929 Marne GP and 3rd at the 1930 French GP at Pau. He also won the 1930 Gometz-Le Chatel Hillclimb.
In 1931, racing a 2.8 litre Nacional Pescara, he became the European Hillclimb Champion
with a series of good performaces including a victory at Kesselberg.
He had a quiet year in 1932 but started again in 1933 after buying the Alfa Romeo Monza (#2111042), in which Raymond Sommer had won the 1932
Le Mans 24-Hour race and the 1932 Marseille GP. Zanelli overhauled the car and started in 1933 at the Grand Prix of Tunis, l'ACF, Penya Rhin, Marne
and Spain, winning at Penya Rhin and finishing 8th at Tunis and 6th at the Brooklands 500. He contunued with the Monza in 1934 and in
1935 he raced Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Nacional Pescara, winning the Val de Cuech Hillclimb.
In 1936 he raced a V8-RI Scuderia Torino and a Maserati 8CM for Scuderia Villapadierna.
Zanelli died during a fight between members of the French resistence (he was part of it), and members of the Gestapo, in the streets of Toulouse,
France in 1944. |
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1929: DNF (heat) Riviera Circuit /
8 Alessandria GP /
DNA Mugello Circuit (1100cc) /
DNA Lyon GP /
2 Marne GP /
DNF San Sebastian GP /
DNF Comminges GP (2000cc) /
DNF Monza GP
1930: DNF Monaco GP /
2 Alessandria GP /
DNF Lyon GP /
DNF Marne GP /
DNS Coppa Ciano /
3 French GP /
DNF San Sebastian GP
1931: DNA Swedish Winter GP (Ice race) /
DNF Monaco GP /
DNA German GP /
DNA Comminges GP
1932: DNS Monaco GP /
DNA Oran GP /
DNA AVUS GP
1933: 8 Tunis GP /
DNA Nimes GP /
DNF French GP /
1 Penya Rhin GP /
DNA Marne GP /
DNA Comminges GP /
DNA Marseille GP /
DNF Spanish GP
1934: Casablanca GP /
7 Picardie GP /
4 Penya Rhin GP /
DNA Marne GP /
DNF Vichy GP /
5 Albi GP /
DNF Comminges GP
1935: DNF Pau GP /
DNF Tunis GP /
DNA Eifel GP
1936: 10 Eifel GP /
DNF German GP
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Karel "Carlos" Zatuszek (A/RA) |
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* 27 Sep 1897
† 8 Oct 1937. |
Lemberg, Austria
Cavilia/Cavalia? |
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Born in Austria Zatuszek was a car mechanic and businessman by occupation. Later on he left Austria
for Argentina, where he became well known not only for his successes with his Mercedes SSK
but also for the amount of beer he drank at the pit stops.
He died in an accident in practice for the GP of Cavilia on 8 October 1937.
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| (Info supplied by Stan Peschel - Konzernarchiv der Daimler Chrysler AG.) |
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1934: 9 Rio de Janeiro GP
1936: 2 Buenos Aires GP
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Edward Zawidowski (PL) |
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From Lwow.
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1933: DNS Lwow GP
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Louis Vorow Zborowski (GB) |
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* 20 Feb 1895
† 19 Oct 1924
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Mayfair, London
Monza, Milano (Milan), Italy |
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At the 1924 Italian GP Zborowski's Mercedes hit the outer edge of the track at the Lesmo curve from where the car shot across to the inside, hitting a post ending up
against a nearby tree. Zborowski with a broken scull died during transport to the hospital.
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1921: DNA French GP
1922: DNF French GP
1923: DNF European GP /
2 Spanish GP
1924: DNF European GP /
DNF Italian GP
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"Zeffiro" - SEE: Giardina
Gróf Theodor Bela Rudolph "Tivadar" Zichy (GB) |
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* 13 Jun 1908
† 30 Dec 1987 |
Eastbourne, East Sussex
Camden, London |
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Child of a Hungarian count and a British mother, Zichy was born in Eastbourne 1908.
Playboy, who tried racing in a Bugatti. Later made a career as a photographer. Commited suicide at Camden, London in 1987.
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1929: DNA Antibes GP
1931: 6 AVUS GP /
DNC Czech GP
1932: DNA Lwow GP
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zu Hardegg - SEE: Hardegg
zu Leiningen - SEE: Leiningen
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