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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
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Valentino Babini (I) |
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* 5 Dec 1889
† 27 Dec 1952 |
Novi di Modena
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Royal Italian Army tank officer. Colonel, (1937), General, (1938). Commanded Special Armoured Brigade in North Africa (1940-1941; POW 1941-1944). Died in a car accident 1952.
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1925: DNF Tripoli GP
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Emmanuel Eugène Baboin (F) |
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* 10 Dec 1910
† 1 Aug 1972 |
Saint-Uze, Drôme
Bron, Rhône |
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Winner of the 1926 Limonest- Mont Verdun hill climb.
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1927: DNF Marne GP
1930: DNF Comminges (Voiturette)
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Alvaro Bacchilega also spelt as Bacchi Lega (I) |
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* 7 Apr 1889
† 21 Jul 1972 |
Faenza, Ravenna
Faenza, Ravenna |
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Cyclist racer who took part in the 1st Giro ciclistico d'Italia 1909. Racing cars he took part in the Savio Circuit from 1925 to 1927 and in the Mille Miglia in 1929.
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1925: 12 Savio Circuit (2000cc)
1926: 3 Savio Circuit (1500cc)
1927: DNF Savio Circuit (1500cc)
1929: DNA Mugello Circuit
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Michele Baccoli (I) |
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* 27 Sep 1886
† ? |
Anfo, Brescia
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Baccoli worked at Bugatti in Molsheim from 1913, with the responsibility of testing the new chassis as Friderich's assistant. He remained at Molsheim until 1915, worked briefly for Panhard and in 1916 he travelled to
Milan to look after the cars that Ettore Bugatti had sent there for safekeeping away from the front. Baccoli officially raced for Bugatti at Le Mans and Gallarate in 1920 and at Garda and Brescia in 1921. He was then
head of the workshop, and co-owner, of the Milanese import agency of the marque located in Via Pietro Colletta in Milan. After the Agency closed, Baccoli opened a workshop on the premises in Via L. Muratori, which he
closed in June 1929, to work briefly for Citroën Italiana, before disappearing from the automotive world.
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1921: 4 (6) Garda Circuit (1500cc)
1925: DNA Rome GP (1500cc)
1928: DNA Rome GP
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Fritz Backasch (D) |
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* 4 Aug 1893
† ? |
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From Brandenburg. Brennabor works driver. In 1929 he won an Alpine Cup with a Brennabor.
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| (Info supplied by Hugo Boecker) |
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1926: 5 German GP (1500cc)
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lo Baldo - SEE: Lo Baldo
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Giuseppe Baldoni (I) |
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* 1882
† ? |
Civitella, Arezzo
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From Florence. The first ALFA customer involved in racing, Baldoni was a typical freelancer from the pioneer period, having raced before the war at the wheel of De Dion-Bouton, Fiat, de Dietrich,
Lancia etc. He was also found in the early post-war years driving SCATs and Nazzaro GPs as well as an Alfa Romeo 40/60.
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1921: DNF Targa Florio (4500cc)
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Renato Balestrero (I) |
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* 27 Jul 1898
† 18 Feb 1948
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Lucca, Toscana
near Milano |
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Renato Balestrero born in Lucca but a Genoa resident, was a very busy
and successful racer whose career spanned 25 years and included over 200
races. Balestrero started racing in 1924 with an OM. The list of his
best placings is exemplary of a solid and quick semi-professional driver
of the Italian school, with victories in some of the Italian classic
races, such as Montenero, Pescara and Tripoli. He won the 1st Libyan
Grand Prix driving a 2.0L O.M. as early as 1925 and then raced Bugattis
during 1927.
He slowed down his racing activity for a while, when he
started an import business of American cars in partnership with the
great Nando Minoia, which did not go very well. So, Balestrero moved up
to international racing in 1933/34 when he drove for Gruppo Genovese San
Giorgio, and and also raced his Alfa Romeo "Monza" which he purchased in 1933.
Balestrero entered the new Monza in the 1934 Mille Miglia and placed a creditable
sixth co-driving with Sanguinetti. Balestrero later sold the car to Uboldi Martini,
but borrowed the Monza in April to enter the Mille Miglia, again with Sanguinetti,
and again placed sixth. In December of 1935, Balestrero bought the car back from
Martini and immediately sold it to Giovanni de Rham, who transferred ownership
to his brother Giacomo.
From 1935 on he raced an Alfa Romeo Tipo B, entering it among other races in
AVUS, Eifel GP
and German GP 1937. Then he raced Belmondo's
Alfa Romeo 308 in 1938. He came back to Italian races after the war with a third in a Fiat 1100
at Genoa in 1946. Then in 1947 Benevento 3rd (Fiat 1100), Sanremo and
Bari 3rd (Alfa Romeo Monza), MM 9th (Fiat 1100) with Bracco. He was 1947
Italian Champion for the unlimited sports car class, winning his class
at Vercelli, Aosta-Gran San Bernardo, Voghera, Sanremo hill climb,
Piacenza and Varese, all in the Fiat-Stanguellini 2800 8C.
Renato Balestrero died in 1948 in an accident near Milan on the Turin
Autostrada. Balestrero had obtained from the Alfa Romeo factory a 6C
marine engine which he was carrying in his car to bring it to Nardi in
Torino to be mounted in a new ND sports car. He had stopped on a road side
and had come out of his car to show his load to a police patrol when he
was hit by another car, a Lancia Aprilia belonging to sports daily
La Gazzetta dello Sport. Balestrero fell and received a fractured skull. He died soon afterwards.
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1922: 2 (8) Coppa Montenero (1350cc)
1923: 2 (6) Coppa Montenero (1500cc)
1924: 2 Mugello Circuit (2000cc)
1925: DNC Rome GP (2000cc) /
1 Tripoli GP (2000cc) /
DNA Alessandria GP /
5 Targa Florio /
DNF Savio Circuit (2000cc) /
1 Coppa Etna /
2 Coppa Acerbo (2000cc) /
1 Coppa Vinci (2000cc) /
5 Coppa Montenero (2000cc) /
18 Garda Circuit
1926: 7 Targa Florio /
1 Coppa Vinci /
3 Coppa Etna /
? Coppa del Marchese Ginori /
DNA European GP /
DNA Coppa Montenero /
DNA Garda Circuit
1927: 2 Tripoli GP /
DNF Pozzo Circuit (2000cc) /
DNF Targa Florio /
2 Coppa Messina /
2 Coppa Perugina /
3 Rome GP (2000cc) /
DNA Bologna Circuit
1928: DNS Coppa Acerbo
1929: 1 Camaiore Cup /
10 Coppa Ciano
1930: DNF Targa Florio
1931: 7* Italian GP /
2 Rome GP (2000cc) /
DNS Coppa Ciano /
8 Coppa Acerbo /
6 Monza GP (2000cc)
1932: 9 Coppa Ciano
1933: 6 (heat) Bordino GP /
6 Tripoli GP /
2 Targa Florio /
DSQ Lwow GP /
6 Coppa Ciano /
9 Italian GP
5 Monza GP /
8 Czech GP
1934: DNF Monaco GP /
DNF (heat) Bordino GP /
10 Tripoli GP /
4 Targa Florio /
7 Marne GP /
DNF German GP /
DNF Coppa Ciano /
DNF Swiss GP /
5 Biella GP /
DNF Algier GP
1935: 5 Targa Florio /
DNF Tunis GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNF AVUS GP /
DNF Eifel GP /
DNF (heat) Turin GP /
DNF German GP /
12 Swiss GP /
DNF Lucca GP /
4 Cosenza GP
1936: DNF Tripoli GP
1937: 5 (heat) AVUS GP /
DNF Eifel GP /
DNF German GP /
DNF Czech GP
1938: 7 German GP
1939: 11 Tripoli (Voiturette) /
DNA Targa Florio (Voiturette)
1940: 12 Tripoli (Voiturette) /
10 Targa Florio (Voiturette)
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Vernon Stuart Balls (GB) |
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* 1 Aug 1887
† 25 Jan 1975 |
Clapham Park, London
Wimbledon, London |
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In 1924, Vernon Balls of Fulham, later of Holborn, was a main Amilcar dealer at hammersmith. He was recognised as being the leading Amilcar racing driver
at Brooklands in the 1920s. Raced Austin Seven(1930-31) and Amilcar (from 1923 to 1930) cars in 1932 Crossley and in 1933 OM cars and Brooklands and
sometimes doing hillclimbs. A leading driver at the Greenford speedway (trotting oval) in 1928 and 1929. Took part in the early midget car meetings in 1934.
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| (Info supplied by Richard A. Salomon, Richard Armstrong & Adam Ferrington) |
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1926: DNC JCC 200 (1100cc)
1927: 2c/3 JCC 200 (1100cc)
1932: DNA Empire Trophy (Voiturette)
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Marcel Lucien Balsa (F) |
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* 1 Jan 1909
† 11 Aug 1984 |
Saint-Frion, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Maisons-Alfort, Île-de-France |
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Started off with motorcycles. Private Bugatti driver. Raced also Delahayes,
and Talbots. After the war he was back with the Bugatti at the 1945 Coup de Liberation and
Coup de Prisonniers finishing 5th in the latter.
In 1946 he raced a Talbot in Nice, a Bugatti in Marseille and a Maserati in St Just-Andrezieux.
In 1947 he raced a Talbot for Henri Marin in Marseille and Nimes.
Later he raced a BMW engined special mostly in local events, being fourth in Luxembourg GP 1949.
His only World Championship race being the 1952 German GP where he retired.
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1939: DNF Pau GP
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Sergio Banti (I) |
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* 27 Dec 1906
† 1970s |
Firenze (Florence)
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Landowner from Tavernelle Val di Pesa in the heart of the Chianti
district. Banti was a busy sports car racer in the late 1930s with
scuderia Maremmana, a racing team owned by his lifelong friend Jacques
de Rham. He made a sporadic come back in 1946/1947. His means of making
a living, besides periodically selling chunks of his land, are unknown.
Based in Rome, Banti "a natural PR man" held several positions within
the Italian Automobile Club (ACI), the last as head of the Karting
subcommittee in the early 1960s. Banti died in the early 1970s.
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1936: 8 Milan GP /
4 Lucca GP /
DNF Lucca (Voiturette)
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Cesare Barbano (I) |
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From Genoa. Well-to-do, known for a vast collection of antique vases, now in a museum in Genoa-Pegli, he took part in the Pontedecimo-Giovi of 1924 and 1925. He was the owner of important cars such as
an Alfa Romeo RLTF24 and an Isotta-Fraschini, and, in particular, of a special Hispano Suiza aero-engined, denoted CB, but actually a modified SCAT with which A. Rabagliati won the first
Pontedecimo-Giovi in 1922.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1926: DNF Ligure-Piemontese Circuit
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Ferdinando "Nando" Barbieri (I) |
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* 29 Aug 1907
† 8 Oct 1997 |
Genova (Genua)
Genova (Genua) |
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Several enthusiasts in Genoa had the good habit of buying fast cars to
be driven by otherwise forcedly inactive young prospects. In 1933 a man
called Capredoni or Capreolini purchased a 1.1L 4CM Maserati for young
Barbieri, who reciprocated by winning the voiturette race at Montenero
and finishing second from W. Straight at Pescara. In this way Barbieri
came into notice of Scuderia Ferrari, who entered him for the tragic
Monza GP and paired him with Comotti for a victory in the gruelling
Principessa di Piemonte sports car race, late in the season. Barbieri
was kept by the Prancing Horse for 1934, when he won the Parma-Poggio di
Berceto hill climb and finished second in the Targa Florio and at the
Stelvio hillclimb race. In 1935 Barbieri drove for another wealthy man
from Genoa, Franco Sardi, who entered a Alfa Romeo Tipo B and and a 4CM
1.5L Maserati, while in 1936 and 1937 yet another rich enthusiast, the
Italo-Swiss Giacomo de Rham, signed Barbieri for his Scuderia Maremmana.
After the folding of de Rham's outfit, Barbieri disappeared from
rosters. This underrated and forgotten driver was indeed quick and
reliable. He made a big impression on the French press for his unlucky
forceful showing at Albi in 1935 and was termed a "Grand Champion".
Nando Barbieri seems to have quit after 1937, when Scuderia Maremmana stopped racing.
Not to be confused with Guido Barbieri.
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1932: DNA Coppa Ciano
1933: 7 (heat) Bordino GP /
13 Tripoli GP /
1 Coppa Ciano (Voiturette 1100cc) /
2 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette 1100cc) /
DNF (heat) Monza GP
1934: 2 Targa Florio /
5 Coppa Ciano /
4 Modena GP
1935: 3 Targa Florio /
DNF Tunis GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNF Bergamo GP /
6 (heat) AVUS GP /
DNF Eifel (Voiturette) /
4 (heat) Turin GP /
1/DNF (heat) Albi (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Ciano /
DNA Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
DNF Nice GP /
DNF Swiss GP /
DNA Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
DNF Modena GP (Voiturette) /
DNF (heat) Lucca GP
1936: DNF Tripoli GP /
DNA Milan (Voiturette) /
DNA Albi (Voiturette) /
DNF Lucca GP /
3 Lucca (Voiturette) /
5 Modena GP /
DNF Modena (Voiturette)
1937: DNA Turin GP (Voiturette) /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNF Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
DNF Florence GP (Voiturette) /
4 Genua GP (Voiturette) /
DNA Milan (Voiturette) /
DNF (heat) San Remo (Voiturette) /
DNA Lucca (Voiturette) /
DNF (heat) Campione D'Italia (Voiturette)
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Frederick Stanley Barnes (GB) |
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* 16 Nov 1900
† 2 Jun 1978. |
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
St. Leonards, East Sussex |
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Stanley Barnes was the older brother of Donald Barnes. Lived in Bromsgrove. Raced from the 1920s into the early 1930s.
Also took part in the 24h Le Mans.
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1932: DNS Eifel GP (Cyclecar)
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James Donald Barnes (GB) |
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* 12 Jul 1904
† 10 Apr 1970 |
Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Blakedown, Worcestershire |
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Donald Barnes was the younger brother of Stanley Barnes.
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1932: 1 AVUS (Cyclecar)
1933: 6 AVUS (Voiturette)
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Arthur Baron (GB) |
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* 13 Feb 1909
† 24 Nov 1998 |
Southall, Middlesex
Frimley, Surrey |
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Son to a garage owner. Did some hill climb racing in the 1930s and 1940s.
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1936: 14* Donington GP
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Amelio "Nello" Baroncini (I) |
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From Livorno. Part-owner of Garage Baroncini & C. - Via delle Galere, 19 - Livorno, Concessionario Automobili Ansaldo e Itala. Competitor with Ansaldo (driver M. Razzauti) and
Itala (driver Franco Cortese) cars in the Livorno races. Motorbike racer.
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1921: DNF Coppa Montenero
1923: DNA Coppa Montenero
1925: DNC Coppa Monteneroi (1500cc)
1926: DNF Coppa Perugina
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Salvatore "Totò" Barresi (I) |
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From Catania, Sicily.
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1926: DNF Coppa Etna
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Mario Barsanti (I) |
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* 11 Jul 1897
† 24 Dec 1937 |
Firenze (Florence)
Firenze (Florence) |
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Stepson of Roberto Barsanti with whom he collaborated together with his brother Dino. He was Chief Motorist during the 1st. World War, at the Taranto naval base on the MAS. In 1921 he took over the running
of the workshop from his father after his father, before which he had participated in a few car races. In 1923 he switched to motorcycling, soon becoming one of the leading national exponents. The highlight
of his career came with his victory in the 350 cc class at the GP of Nations in Monza in 1930, on Motosacoche. The driver Rodolfo Caruso, son of the tenor Enrico, joined the two brothers, who in the meantime
had become Agents for Italy for Chater-Lea motorbikes. He still sporadically participated in some motor races, some of them at the wheel of a special 1100 based on a Fiat 509, with an engine equipped with
a special head designed by his brother Dino. During practice of the Coppa del Mare 1931 (Livorno), he was run over by a lorry at Ponte di Calafuria, sustaining multiple fractures (left leg and right forearm)
and internal injuries (lungs) of considerable severity, which endangered his health and practically put an end to his sporting career. His independent character and the marginalisation caused by his
anti-fascist ideas precluded him from even greater motorcycling success and access to the most competitive Italian motorbike teams. Barsanti did not recover after the accident at Calafuria, but continued
to race motorbikes supported by increasingly evanescent physical strength. On 14 December 1937 Barsanti was seriously injured when testing a race car at Livorno and he died ten days later.
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1925: DNA Savio Circuit
1927: DNF Coppa Perugina (1100cc)
1928: DNF Mugello Circuit
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Ciro B. Basadonna (CH/I) |
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* 30 June 1906
† 7 Oct 2009 |
Torino (Turin)
Ginevra (Geneva) |
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Basadonna was born in Turin, but was a Geneva resident and the holder
of a Swiss licence. He had been behind many differently named racing
outfits from that city .
In 1938 he had founded Ecurie Helvetia with
Quadri, Hug and de Graffenried. He delt in cars in Geneva, where he
imported in different times Maseratis, Altas, Cisitalias and Lancias.
Basadonna often acted as a middleman between organizers and
drivers/teams and was the Penya Rhin official representative from 1948 to
1954. Started racing in 1928. Not a particulary quick driver he became known in 1937 when he raced
a Maserari 4CM Voiturette under the
Ecurie Helvetica banner. In 1946, he continued racing a Maserati 4CL entered by the Swiss
Ecurie Autosport and finished second at the Penya Rhin GP that year.
He was a great friend of Dusio and his associate in pre-war years ? he
acted as Dusio's textile business agent in Argentina - and would later
be involved in the 1.1 litre Cisitalia project early in 1947, quitting
racing after that for many years.
Basadonna's main achievements as a driver would come much later, with
victories in the 1954 Monte Carlo Rally (with Chiron) and the 1958
Acropolis Rally (with Gigi Villoresi), both in Lancia Aurelia GTs.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva & Hans Etzrodt) |
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1928: DNF Alessandria GP
1931: DNA Geneva GP (Voiturette)
1937: 7 Turin GP (Voiturette) /
11 Napels (Voiturette) /
DNA Frontières (Voiturette) /
6 AVUS (Voiturette) /
DNC Albi (Voiturette) /
4 (heat) Campione D'Italia (Voiturette)
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Aldo Bassi (I) |
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* 9 Apr 1906
† 23 Apr 1950 |
Calcinato, Brescia
Brescia |
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Born in Calcinato, Brescia, Bassi joined O.M. as a worker at a very young age. Like others before him, he was selected to become a test driver and then a driver for the factory team, whose logistics he looked
after on several occasions. After leaving the O.M. factory, he moved to East Africa to set up a transport company. He returned before the outbreak of World War II and opened a workshop in the Carmine district,
specialising in the preparation of racing cars. He was successful at the wheel of various Fiat 1100 sports specials. He took a class victory in the 24 Hours of Spa in a Fiat 1100 S berlinetta, finishing second
overall. A regular participant in the Mille Miglia, he died in the 1950 edition just a few kilometres from the start on roads he knew well, at the wheel of a Ferrari.
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1928: 5 Coppa Messina /
9 Coppa Etna
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Bastia - SEE: Marsengo Bastia
Giovanni "Gianni" Battaglia (I) |
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* 9 Aug 1893
† 28 Mar 1949 |
Luino, Varese
Varese |
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Battaglia, mainly a hillclimb specialist for what car racing is
concerned came from Luino, Varese near the Lago Maggiore.
Formerly a bicycle and motorcycle racer, he picked up motor car racing
in 1927. In that year he had been proclaimed Italian National Champion
for the 350cc motorcycle class, topping the likes of Nuvolari, Varzi,
Gnesa and Moretti.
He scored good results in the Mille Miglia driving his personal Alfa
Monzas: 4th in 1933 and 1934, 3rd in 1935. He later drove borrowed
Maserati voiturettes until retirement in 1938, although Battaglia's best
achievement in the 40 car races he entered, is considered his victory
in the 1931 Aosta-Gran San Bernardo hill climb, with an impressive
record time.
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1933: 8 Tripoli GP /
5 Coppa Ciano
1934: DNF (heat) Bordino GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNF Targa Florio
1936: 10 Tripoli GP /
9 Milan GP /
3 Lucca GP /
6 Modena GP
1938: DNF Tripoli (Voiturette) /
4 Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
DNF Napels (Voiturette) /
DNA Varese (Voiturette)
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Augusto Battaglini (I) |
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* 1886
† 1950 |
Firenze (Florence)
Firenze (Florence) |
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Car dealer in Florence and Friend of Vincenzo Lancia. Was a Lancia dealer since 1913. Ran a garage in viale Principe Umberto 33, from 1927, in via del Crocifisso, and then in via Ponte alle Mosse.
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1924: DNF Mugello Circuit (3000cc)
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Attilio Battilana (I) |
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Most of the Genova racing drivers, with the exception of
N. Barbieri, Bianco and Berrone, organized themselves into a racing outfit
called the Gruppo Genovese San Giorgio for the 1934 racing season. The
driving force behind this endeavour was Renato Balestrero and the
finance was in charge of an inevitable wealthy enthusiast, Cesare
Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti owned a score of 8C Alfa Monzas, but raced
sporadically. Balestrero had resumed with serious racing in 1933 and
pooled his Monza with those of Sanguinetti. The other drivers involved
were Luigi Beccaria, Arnaldo Sciutti and Attilio Battilana and also
probably Clemente Biondetti.
Battilana hailed from Chiavari, near Genova, and had purchased in 1933 a
8C Alfa which he co-raced with Balestrero in the Milla Miglia and in
other local races before selling it at the end of the year. He also
owned, very likely in partnership with Beccaria, one or maybe two GP
Bugattis. He raced one of Sanguinetti's Monzas in 1934, while in 1935 he
partnered Beccaria in racing the latter's very fast Fiat Balilla 508
Spider, in long distance and in voiturette races.
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1933: 4 Tripoli GP /
6 (heat) Monza GP /
DNF Czech GP
1934: DNF Targa Florio /
? German GP
1935: DNF Targa Florio /
DNA Eifel GP
1936: DNS Tripoli GP
1937: DNA Genua GP (Voiturette) /
DNA San Remo (Voiturette)
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Anton "Toni" Bauhofer (D) |
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* 25 Jan 1892
† 10 Jan 1968 |
München (Munich)
München (Munich) |
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Motorcycle racer "Toni" Bauhofer was known as a fair sportsman, and a good driver with excellent technicial ability.
he was born in München (Munich) in 1892. During World War I he served as a volunteer flying reconnaissance and later fighter planes.
Continues as a ppilot after the war. Participated in the development of Megola motorcycle engine.
Started his career in 1921 with a Megola. Won the 1000-cc class of the German Road Championship in 1924. From 1925 to 1929 he raced BMW motorcycles as works driver and won the 1000cc class of the
German Championship in 1928. From 1929 - 1935 he raced for DKW winning the 500cc German Championship in 1930 & 1932. he also raced DKW cycle cars.
Ended his racing career after a crash duing practice for the 1935 Feldberg hillclimb where he broke his tight. Then managed the DKW racing department for two years.
Recieved the ADAC sports badge with diamonds in 1961.
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1931: DNF German GP (1100cc)
1932: DNF AVUS (Cyclecar) /
? Eifel GP (Cyclecar)
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Maurice Henry Baumer (GB) |
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* 17 Nov 1900
† 20 Jun 1975 |
Walmer, Kent
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire |
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Raced a M.G. Magnette at the voiturette class of the 1935 Dieppe GP.
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| (Info supplied by Jean-Charles Colombier) |
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1933: DNC* Mannin Beg (Voiturette)
1935: DNF Dieppe (Voiturette)
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Walter Bäumer (D) |
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* 17 Oct 1908
† 29 Jun 1941 |
Bünde, Westfalen (Westphalia)
between Herford and Bünde |
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Bäumer took on motorcycle racing in 1928. He showed great promise
as driver winning 12 races but after an accident he turned to racing cars instead, racing
0.75 litre Dixi and BMW against his main rival Kohlrausch.
Bäumer was also called "Walter von der Wartburg" because he used to drive the BMW Wartburg.
From 1932 to 1935, Bäumer dominated that class in mountain races with an Austin 747 cc racing car and sports car
0.75 litre class in German sports and hillclimbs. In 1935, he raced also a MG K3 Magnette.
In 1937, he took the class victory at Shelsley Walsh and Freiburg. A test drive for Mercedes-Benz
made him a reserve driver for the team between 1937 and 1939. Tested a Mercedes-Benz W125 during
practice for the German GP 1937. During this period, there was little activity for him so that his true potential was
never revealed. His greatest moment came at the 1940 Mille Miglia when he won the race together with von
Hanstein. Bäumer died 1941 in a freak accident on the road between Herford and his hometown Bünde at an age of 32.
Bäumer was being kissed by a female passenger when the car door opened in a corner and Bäumer fell out on a field, receiving fatal wounds in his neck from a sharp wooden object.
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| (Info supplied by Hans Etzrodt and Walter Bäumer Jr.) |
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1932: 4 AVUS (Cyclecar) /
DNF Eifel GP (Cyclecar) /
DNF German GP (Cyclecar)
1933: DNF AVUS (Voiturette) /
? Eifel (Cyclecar)
1934: DNF AVUS (Voiturette)
1935: DNA Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
DNS? Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
1936: 5 Eifel (Voiturette) /
6 Swiss GP (Voiturette)
1937: DNS German GP /
DNF (heat) Swiss GP (Voiturette)
1938: DNF* German GP /
DNS/10* Swiss GP /
DNF Donington GP
1939: DNS French GP /
DNF* Belgrad GP
1940: 1* Mille Miglia (Sports car)
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Werner Bäumer (D) |
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* 4 Dec 1909
† 20 Apr 1972 |
Bünde, Westfalen (Westphalia)
? |
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Werner Bäumer was a motorcycle racer alongside his older brother Walter.
Later he became Walter's manager and business adviser.
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1932: ? Eifel GP (Cyclecar)
1934: DNF AVUS (Voiturette)
1936: DNS Eifel (Voiturette)
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"Bauru" - SEE: Amaral jr.
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Francis Bayard (F) |
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1938: DNA Pau GP
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Luigi Beccaria (I) |
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Active in motor racing 1922-1935. A Genoese car dealer, for a period he was also the agent for Bugatti, with a ‘showroom’ in Via Cesarea in the city centre. Beccaria took part in races with the various marques
he handled, proving to be a driver of good class, even if the promotional aspect of his participations sometimes induced him to a certain caution, ‘we therefore believe that Beccaria could have lapped even a
little faster than his fellow marques’, wrote the ACI magazine on the occasion of the 1926 Circuito del Montenero. He belonged to a long list of Genoese amateur drivers who were very active between 1920 and
1940. He had begun in the early 1920s at the wheel of Fiat 501S cars, then, above all, Ceirano, whose dealer he was and whose new 1500 cc 150S he raced. He then drove Lancia Lambdas, followed by a Maserati
T26 and the inevitable Alfa Romeo 8C. In the 1928 season, he participated in a few races at the wheel of a Bugatti T37. Beccaria is best known for the fast Balilla spiders with which he raced on the road and
track in 1934 and 1935. He was one of the promoters of the Scuderia ‘Gruppo Genovese San Giorgio’ in 1934.
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1925: DNF Coppa Monteneroi (1500cc)
1926: 3 Alessandria GP (1500cc) /
4 Coppa Montenero (1500cc)
1927: 4c/8 Alessandria GP (1500cc)
1928: DNF Pozzo Circuit /
5 Alessandria GP /
DNF Mugello Circuit /
DNF Coppa Montenero
1929: DNF (heat) Monza GP (Voiturette)
1930: DNS Alessandria GP
1934: DNA Targa Florio /
6 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette 1100cc)
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Antonio Becchi (I) |
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Wealthy man from Genoa, was an intermittent racer from 1922 to 1924 mainly driving Diatto cars. During the 1930s he became a power boat pilot at the international level, driving boats personally designed and owned.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1923: 5 Targa Florio
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Adolf William Karl "Bill" von der Becke (GB) |
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* 18 Apr 1907
† 7 Mar 1979 |
Handsworth, Staffordshire
Cropthorne, Worcestershire |
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1935: NC* Donington GP
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Bègue - SEE: Le Bègue
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Attilio Belgir (I) |
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From Milan. Owner of a warehouse for furnishing fabrics, in Milan. Motor-boat pilot, then sports commissioner and manager (president of the Sports Commission Motonautical Federation in 1953). Active in motor
racing from 1924 to 1927, then in 1930. In the first edition of the Mille Miglia (1927) he achieved an excellent result for an unsutably Bugatti car when, paired with Giulio Binda, they came first in the
1500 class and twelfth overall in a lone T40. They beat the heavily favoured Ceirano 150S, in particular the one driven by the very strong Beccaria-Cattaneo duo, by just 10 minutes after one day of racing.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1926: DNF Tripoli GP (1500cc)
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Richard Robert Michael "Mike" Milbank, Marquis de Belleroche (GB) |
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* 20 Feb 1909
† 9 Dec 1976 |
Martock, Somerset
Blythburgh, Suffolk |
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"Mike" Milbank's ancestors had fled to England in 1685 from Louis XIV's persecution of Huguenots.
Photographer.
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1932: DNF German GP (Cyclecar)
1937: DNF* Campbell Trophy
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Rigoletto Belli (I) |
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* 3 Jan 1888
† 12 Nov 1951 |
Pontedera, Toscana
Roma (Rome) |
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Well-known sportsman from Terni. Cyclist racer before the Great War, then motorcyclist. Active with a Fiat 501 and then 509 from 1923 to 1928 in races in central Italy. Owner Autogarage, Terni,
Via Frattini 55-58 Fiat dealer, Terni, Via Cesare Battisti.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1925: DNA Savio Circuit (1100cc)
1927: 5 Coppa Perugina (1100cc)
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Vezio Bellincioni (I) |
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Lived in Tunis. Director of the Banco Italiano di Credito in Tunis. Wrongly denounced by the fascist regime, for a secret request for French naturalisation and in addition for anti-fascism and
inveterate Freemasonry.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1927: 3 Tripoli GP (1100cc)
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Geremia Bellingeri (I) |
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Owner of a farm. Active in motor racing from 1929 to 1934, mainly with a rare Itala mod. 65.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1931: DNA Alessandria GP
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Luigi Bellucci (I) |
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* 19 Mar 1905
† ? |
Napoli (Naples)
? |
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A car dealer in Naples, Bellucci raced for no less than 32 years. He began in 1928 with a 3-litre Diatto, followed by a Lancia Lambda and two Maseratis (tipo 26 and 4CS). Lancia and Maserati became the dominant marques of
his sporting life. After 1937 he drove all sorts of Lancia Aprilias, having become a concessionaire for the company in Naples. He was Italian Champion for the 1500cc sports car "Nazionale class (stock block, un-super- charged)
in 1939 with a special Lancia Aprilia with Touring body, prepared by Sabatino Paganelli. Post-war, he raced from 1948 to 1952 with success, driving a sports car built by Paganelli, with Lancia Aprilia-derived engines of various
displacements, 1.5, 1.7 and 2-litre, and various Lancia Aurelias. In a brief diversion during 1953, he drove an Alfa Romeo 1900TI and the 2-litre Disco Volante now in the Mulhouse Museum. Two A6GCS Maseratis brought him his
last successes from 1954 to 1959, with an intermission during 1956 as Maserati works driver in a 200 SI. In 1959, he purchased three WRE-Maseratis, for an outfit that he had created in Naples, the Sportclub Autonautico. He
finally retired from racing in 1960.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1938: 4* Napels (Voiturette)
1939: 7 Napels (Voiturette)
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Vittorio Belmondo (I) |
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* 1 Jan 1912
† 25 Jun 1962 |
Torino (Turin)
Torino (Turin) |
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Industrialist and merchant. He started with a mechanical workshop with six workers, the ‘VBT (Vittorio Belmondo Torino): Corso Moncalieri 27, Fiat transformations and special torpedo-type bodywork’. Vittorio Belmondo is of
considerable importance in the history of motorisation, as he built the first Italian scooter, the Simat (with a 98 cc Sachs engine), and an evolution of it, the Velta, in 1939. The prototypes of the famous Vespa (1944/45)
are a reproduction of these models. After the war he was represented by Veedol oil within the company VAMA (Vendita Applicazioni Manufatti Autarchici), based at Via Galilei in Milan for marketing mechanical parts and
lubricating oils. His company was dissolved in 1958.
The rights to build the scooter were sold to Volugrafo, a Turin-based factory of pumps, tanks and trailers, whose partners included two other Belmondo's, whose relationship with Vittorio is unknown. This fact has created
confusion in the sources as to the paternity of the scooter.
As a driver, Belmondo did not win much, but was remarkably regular and respectful of mechanics. In his ten races for 1500 cc voiturettes he finished once second, twice third, once fourth and twice fifth, retiring four times.
In the second half of the 1937 season, he made the big leap into Grand Prix racing, purchasing an 8C-35 Alfa Romeo, serial number 50011, and finishing sixth at Pescara. The car was converted into a type 308 model for the
new 1938 International Formula. With the new car Belmondo placed third at Livorno and fourth at Pescara. After a Monza retirement, Belmondo quit motor racing.
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| (Info supplied by Luigi Lago and Alessandro Silva) |
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1935: 7 Targa Florio /
1936: DNF Milan GP /
3 Milan (Voiturette) /
DNS Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
DNF Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
DNA Lucca GP /
2 Lucca (Voiturette)
1937: DNA Turin GP (Voiturette) /
5* Napels (Voiturette) /
DNF Tripoli GP /
4 Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
3 Genua GP (Voiturette) /
DNF Florence GP (Voiturette) /
5 Milan (Voiturette) /
12 German GP /
6 Coppa Acerbo /
10 Italian GP
1938: 4 Coppa Ciano /
3 Coppa Acerbo /
DNF Italian GP
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Auguste Paul Benazet né Guizard (F) |
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* 13 Jun 1907
† 6 Dec 1971 |
Paris 14e
Bois-Le-Roi, Seine-Et-Marne |
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Paul Benazet shared a Delahaye 135 CS with "Jacques Seylair" for the
1937 season.
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| (Info supplied by André Reine) |
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1937: 5 Frontières GP
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Aldo Benedetti (I) |
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* 23 Sep 1901
† 6 Jan 1975 |
Firenze (Florence)
Firenze (Florence) |
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Owner and manager with his brother Aldemaro of Officina meccanica ‘Garage Bologna’, (Florence, Via Fiesolana), for the preparation and construction of sports cars. 1946 Elaboration of barchetta Fiat 1500 ex-MM40,
1948 Elaboration of torpedo Fiat 1100, from 1949 with Ermini twin-camshaft engine. 1952 - Lancia B.20 ex-Biagiotti elaboration - lowered pavilion, Nardi manifold and six Dell'Orto carburettors.
Another brother (Elio Benedetti), owned a similar workshop for tuning sports cars in Florence, (Via del Mille). Winner of the 1949 Giro di Sicilia-Targa Florio with Clemente Biondetti, in a Ferrari.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1937: DNS Florence GP (Voiturette)
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Jean Bénéjean (F) |
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French, living in Algeria. Bought a ex-Marcel Lehoux Bugatti T51. Only raced once, at the 1934 Picardie GP where
he lost control when braking for the sharp Chicane de Brie. The car rolled over and the luckless driver was
thrown out, suffering injuries that made him lose a leg.
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| (Info supplied by Jimmy Piget) |
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1934: DNF Picardie GP
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Enrico Benini (I) |
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* 25 Dec 1905
† 13 Apr 1930 |
Firenze (Florence)
Buonconvento, Siena, Toscana |
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The son of Pietro, owner of the important ‘Nuovo Pignone’ mechanical industry, he began his automotive career at a very young age in 1928. He immediately showed that he was much faster than a normal amateur driver, so much
so that he was considered a hope in motor racing. Unfortunately, he was unable to fulfil his promise, as he fatally crashed during the 1930 Mille Miglia. Benini hit the parapet of a bridge at Buonconvento, plunging four metres into the ravine.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1928: 5 Mugello Circuit
1929: 3 Mugello Circuit (2000cc) /
9 Coppa Ciano
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Joseph Dudley Benjafield (GB) |
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* 6 Aug 1887
† 21 Jan 1957 |
Edmonton, Middlesex
Marylebone, London |
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| (Info supplied by Adam Ferrington) |
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1927: DNF JCC 200 (1100cc)
1928: 5 Grand Prix Bugatti
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Hans Gunnar Bennström (S) |
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* 4 May 1914
† 9 Sep 1963 |
Linde, Västmanland
Stockholm |
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1937: DNF Flaten (Ice race)
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Sven Olof "Olle" Bennström (S) |
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* 16 May 1904
† 31 May 1968 |
Rättvik, Vikarbyn, Dalarna
Västerås, Västmanland |
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Born in the county of Dalarna. The family moved to Västerås in 1914. Winner of the 1932 Swedish Winter Grand Prix. Retired from racing after a crash at the infamous 1933 Swedish Grand Prix.
Started in 1934 with a capital of 5000 kr a car company that would later employ 40 persons. Died, probably due to cancer, in 1968.
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| (Info supplied by Håkan Gelin) |
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1932: 1 Swedish Winter GP (Ice race)
1933: 3 Swedish Winter GP (Ice race) /
3 Finnish GP /
DNF Swedish Summer GP
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Maurice Joseph Jules Béquet (F) |
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* 10 May 1889
† 3 Feb 1943 |
Sainte-Adresse, Le Havre
Deauville |
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1922: 3 Coppa Florio
1926: DNS Provence GP
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Hervé De Berc (F) |
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Address: 31 rue de Liège, Paris.
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| (With thanks to Hugo Boecker) |
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1929: 9 Dieppe GP
1930: 6 Picardie GP
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Tore Berg (S) |
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* 2 Oct 1910
† 31 Jan 1982 |
Nedre Ullerud, Värmland
Guldsmedshyttan, Lindesberg, Västmanland |
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Engineer, living in Lindesberg, Västmanland, near Örebro. Bought Eugen Bjørnstad's Alfa Romeo Monza #2111041.
Won the "Finlandsinsamlingen Karlskoga" ice race in 1940.
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1939: DNF Finnish GP
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Moris Bergamini (I) |
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* 1911
† 1965 |
Mantua
? |
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The sporting career of Bergamini, born into a family of landowners, lasted only three years. He had started with the 1934 Mille Miglia, wrecking his Fiat Balilla, with two months in hospital as a consequence. He persevered
with the Balilla nonetheless, later buying a Maserati 4CS 1.1L for the 1935 season (4CS 1123). The 4CS was joined by a single-seater 4CM (1127) later that year. Driving the latter, Bergamini became Italian Champion for the
1100 Corsa class, a feat he repeated the following year. A more modern Maserati (6CM 1534) was purchased for the 1937 season. However, Bergamini promptly retired from racing at the end of 1936, probably under pressure from
his family, and his three Maseratis were sold; 4CM 1127 to Ciro Basadonna, the new one, 6CM 1534 to Francesco Severi, while 4CS, 1123 was returned to the factory.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1935: DNF Coppa Ciano (1100c) /
5 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
3 Modena GP (Voiturette)
1936: 7 Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
5 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
DNF Lucca (Voiturette) /
5 Modena (Voiturette)
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Tersilio Bergese (I) |
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From Turin. Fiat used for its official team mostly drivers who had risen through the ranks of mechanics and test drivers from the very beginning of its participation in racing, which also coincided with the beginning of the
marketing of its products. Tersilio Bergese worked in the Experience Department and was an official test driver in 1922/23, although he was the least documented of the Fiat drivers. He was part of a new generation of factory
drivers who cut their teeth on the Fiat model 501. After the presentation of the car, it was naturally thought to add validity to the publicity battle by having it participate in races. Soon the works team was using various
special versions up to one equipped with the brilliant 403 engine., a very different unit from the original 501 engine. Fiat very casually used the victories of this car in the advertising of the ‘normal’ 501. Bergese won
the 1500 class at the Parma Poggio di Berceto in 1921, placing second the following year.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1921: 1 (11) Targa Florio (2000cc)
1922: DNF Targa Florio (1500cc)
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Armando Bergonzoni (I) |
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Bergonzoni drove an unusual 3L Sport Beccaria. The Beccaria 18/30HP Sport of 1915 was designed by Giuseppe Cravero and built by the Officine Meccaniche Beccaria of Turin. For a brief period the marque had taken the name
Florio, due to an interest of Vincenzo Florio in the capital.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1925: DNA Mugello Circuit (2000cc)
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Walter "Waltsu" Bergström (FIN) |
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* 13 Dec 1909
† 6 Feb 1985 |
Helsinki
? |
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Sales manager. Motorcycle racer who also raced cars. Started racing in 1928 and raced util the end of the 1950s.
Winner of the Eläintarha 500cc class 1958 & 1959. In 1948 he he won all Finnish races he took part in.
Also raced 500cc "Effyh" F3 cars after the war. Worked also as international referee,
team manager and chairman for the Helsinki motor club.
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1939: 4 Finnish GP
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Eugenio Beria d'Argentine (I) |
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* 3 Aug 1887
† 18 Oct 1984 |
Revigliasco, Torino
Torino |
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Active in motor racing since 1911, factory test driver: Aquila Italiana (1913-1914); Ansaldo (1920/21); SPA (1923/24); Itala 1929. Lieutenant pilot (33rd fighter squadron?) in World War I. Bronze Medal. He seems to have
been the only sportsman in a family consisting of generations of jurists, some of them distinguished. The Aquila Italiana team fielded a group of scions of Turin's good society. He was a friend of the Conelli brothers,
he founded the Golf Club Torino with them.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1924: DNA Targa Florio (4500cc) /
3 Coppa Acerbo
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de Bernardinis - SEE: De Bernardinis
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Ricardo Bernasconi (F) |
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* 6 Nov 1904
† 15 Aug 1993 |
Solbrate?
Marseille 8e, Bouches-du-Rhône |
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Garage owner at rue Paradis, Marseille. He bought a Bugatti T35C
c/n 4871 ex-Jannine Jennky on 2 March 1932, painted it red!? and entered it in local races. The 1932 Monza GP was
the high point of his career. Reported racing a Bugatti T35B! he finished last in his heat and next to last in the repechâge
but that didn't really matter. That day he had raced at Monza against Nuvolari, Taruffi, Fagioli, Chiron, Brivio...
There are men who from a single event can draw enough inspiration to last for the rest of the life.
Bernasconi owned his Bugatti until 1958.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva and André Reine) |
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1932: 11 Torvilliers Circuit /
7 Lorraine GP (2000cc) /
DNF La Baule GP /
7 (heat) Monza GP
1933: DNA Picardie GP /
2 Provence Trophy
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Ippolito Berrone (I) |
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* 1901
† 1972 |
Genova (Genoa)
Sestri Levante, near Genova |
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The list of the prominent Italian amateur racing drivers of the 1930s who lived in Genoa is quite long. Particularly distinguished among them was Ippolito Berrone, despite him being something of an outsider among the local
racing milieu. Coming from an affluent family, his father having founded a bank in Argen- tina, he could afford to race a series of good cars, mainly Maseratis, (4CS 1516, 4CM 1528, 4CM 2011) after some initial seasons
with 6C and 8C Alfa Romeos. Berrone’s cars were well prepared, providing him with a win at Modena in 1935 and class wins at La Turbie hillclimb near Nice. Despite this, he was a better yachtsman than a racing driver.
He owned beautiful boats among which there was Blue Marlin, a racing 12-metre craft which Berrone himself skippered from England to Genoa in 1951. He was certainly one of the Maserati brothers’ most valued customers,
with them loaning him an 1100cc works OSCA for a one-off return to competition in 1950, at the event closest to the hearts of drivers from Genoa: the Pontedecimo-Giovi hillclimb.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1933: DNA Monza GP
1934: DNF Finnish GP /
DNA Modena GP
1935: DNA Turin GP /
5 Dieppe (Voiturette) /
DNA Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
1 Modena GP (Voiturette)
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Franco "Franz" Bertani (I) |
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* 8 Jan 1913
† 28 Oct 2006 |
Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia |
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Franco Bertani was born into a rich family from Reggio Emilia and was a law-school graduate. He was a very good driver, much faster than the usual "wealthy amateur" cliché, but it is clear that he was not interested in
moving into higher classes of racing. After the Maserati 4CS 1529, he drove a Fiat 1100 Stanguellini in 1938 and 1939, fitted with body by Torricelli, with great success, the first winning car built by the Modenese constructor.
He was still racing it in 1946, when, although at the twilight of his racing career, he was still the fastest in the crowded 1100cc sports car class, winning no less than eight times. He took his most famous victory at
the 1946 Belgian Grand Prix at Brussels, beating Amédée Gordini's very fast car in a very wet race. He then retired from racing.
He was then behind the Ala d'Oro project, a racing coach builder in Reggio Emilia which opened in 1945. Bertani’s idea was to employ the highly specialized workforce which had been laid off by the Officine Reggiane, a large
manufacturer of military aircraft, which was undergoing a painfully slow redirection of its production. The Ala d’Oro bodied sports cars, most numerous among which were the Fiat-Stanguellini 1100s, were a common sight on the
grids of the Italian races of the period 1946 to 1950.
Bertani then became a life-long executive director of the Reggio Emilia Automobile Club. He kept very strong ties with Vittorio Stanguellini, often acting as special counsellor to the Modenese firm. He staged a brief
comeback in 1954/1955 driving an Alfa Romeo 1900 TI saloon, showing that none of his old speed had been lost, but he soon retired again, this time for good. A funny episode characterizes the last years of his activity as
a sports car builder. Like many Italians he had been very much impressed by Stirling Moss’ drive in the Cooper- JAP at the Garda race in 1949 so he ordered a car from Coopers on the spot. After inspecting the car upon its
arrival, he found it so different from the standards of Italian racing design that he immediately had theJAP engine grafted into the front of a Topolino chassis. Despite sporting a very pretty Ala d’Oro body, this strange
concoction was unsuccessful.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1937: DNF Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
7 Lucca (Voiturette)
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Umberto Berti (I) |
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* 8 Jul 1893
† 1974 |
Terni, Umbria
Città di Castello, Umbria |
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Born in Terni, Umbria, he moved with his family to Citta di Castello.
Mechanic. Owner of an auto repair shop (Garage Berti, later ‘Autogarage Triferno’, Corso Vittorio Emanuele) with garage, rental and driving school (the only one in town).
He started racing in 1928 in an O.M. 665, results including a 4th at Circito della Marche and a 24th at Mille Miglia.
He did not race in 1929 for family reasons and then specialized in Mille-Miglia, with nine participations (1927, 1930/1937) with a best result of sixth overall in 1933 Motorbike racer.
Racing a Alfa Romeo he finished 7th in 1932, 6th in 1933 (in an Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 spider Touring), 8th in 1934 and 13th 1935. With a Fiat he was 19th in 1936 and 30th in 1937.
He returned to Mille Miglia after the war finishing 4th in 1948 and 22th in 1949 with a Fiat and also took part in the
1952 race with a Ferrari, finishing 170th . He finished his racing career with the 1952 and 1953 Tour Auto Umbria and then
concentrated on his buisness full time.
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| (Info supplied by Giuseppe Prisco / Alessandro Silva) |
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1932: DNA Coppa Ciano
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Luigi "Gino" Bertocci (I) |
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From Follonica (Grosseto). Garage and repair shop owner in Follonica. Motorbike racer and manager of Moto Club Follonica. Founder and vice-president of the AC Grosseto. .Active in 1925/27 with an Alfa Romeo RLTF23
modified to RLTF24, he achieved two important class victories, at the Premio Reale di Roma in 1926 and at the Circuito del Montenero in 1927, albeit against not irresistible opponents
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1925: 1925: 6 Savio Circuit /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
DNC Coppa Montenero
1926: DNC Rome GP /
DNF Savio Circuit
DNF Coppa Montenero
1927: DNF Coppa Perugina /
12 Coppa Montenero
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Oliver Henry Julius Bertram (GB) |
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* 26 Feb 1910
† 13 Sep 1975 |
Kensington, London
Barnstaple, Devon |
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Educated at Cambridge Oliver Bertram became a barrister at law practising in London.
He started racing in 1929 and was much a Brooklands specialist, known for his record attempts with the huge
Barnato-Hassan special. He became the Brooklands outer lap record holder in August 1935 only to loose it
two months later to Cobb (Napier Railton ). Bertram was awared the 1935 and 1938 Gold Star.
Got married in 1943 and had two children.
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| (Info supplied by Adam Ferrington) |
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1933: DNF Empire Trophy
1937: 1* BRDC 500 km (handicap)
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André Victor Besaucèle (Besaucelle) (F) |
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* 11 Oct 1891
† 3 May 1979 |
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne |
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André Victor Besaucèle was born 1891 in Toulouse. He was the 2nd son of Henri Philippe Victor Besaucelè, a well known medical doctor.
Became a lawer. Got married in 1922. Amateur driver who took part to the 1926 Comminges GP under the pseudonyme "André Victor".
Entered a Ballot in a few races 1929-1931.
Died on May 3, 1979.
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| (Info supplied by Marc Ceulemans) |
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1929: DNC French GP /
3 Comminges GP
1930: DNA Comminges GP
1931: DNF Comminges GP
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Giulio Bettoia (I) |
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From Rome. Owner Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio, Via Cavour 18, Rome, one of the best in the City in his time. Founding member of the Automobile Club of Rome. Mayor of the municipality of Montecatini Val di Cecina, Pisa (1944-45).
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1931: DNA Coppa Ciano
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Aldo "Tino" Bianchi (I) |
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Tino Bianchi - a well known mechanic from Milan - worked for Luigi
Castelbarco before the war. He modified the latter's Maserati 1500
mounting an independent suspension with which Castelbarco won the
1934 Eifelrennen. During 1946 he raced the ex-Bellucci Lancia
Aprilia. In 1948/49 he built a couple of Cisitalias D46 with Lancia
Aprilia engine. In the early fifties he worked for Gastone Crepaldi,
importer of French cars in Milan, and then Ferrari concessionaire.
Bianchi built for Crepaldi a series of extremely successful small sports
cars with Dyna Panhard engine and with bodies made by the best
coachbuilders such as Colli or Zagato, which were raced under the banner
of Italfrance. Around 1956 Bianchi opened a new workshop called
Autocorse. He associated once more with Crepaldi to build a rear engined
FJ car in 1960. This car, the Bianchi-Jano-Crepaldi, showed some promise
but was never developed. It was one of legendary Vittorio Jano's last endeavours .
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1931: DNS Italian GP
1934: 6 (heat) Biella GP
1936: 10 Milan (Voiturette) /
DNF Modena (Voiturette)
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Ettore Bianco (I) |
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* 3 Jun 1900
† ? |
Savona, Liguria
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Bianco was one of the many amateur racing drivers living in Genoa, who were active during the 1930s, but he stood out from that crowd because of his speed and his aggressive driving style, more akin
to that of a professional driver. He had distinguished himself at the wheel of a Fiat Balilla Sport in 1934 and then of his 1100cc 4CS Maserati (4CS 1126). Two outstanding performances in the 1935
and 1936 Mille Miglia (6th and 7th overall with that car), placed Bianco among the most interesting Italian drivers of the period. After that, he devoted himself to single-seater racing in the
voiturette class, in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. His six-year long (1934-1940) racing career reached its height as Maserati works driver at the Italian Grand Prix of 1936, where he shared
the wheel of a V8Ri car with Carlo Felice Trossi, obtaining a final placing of seventh. Bianco, a Fiat concessionaire in the Genoa district of Sampierdarena (via Carducci, today via Cantore),
disappeared from the racing scene after the war, when he only made two entries to the 1947 and 1948 Mille Miglia, both with Fiat "Topolinos", on neither occasion of which did he take the start.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1935: 2 Coppa Ciano (1100c) /
2 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
DNF Modena GP (Voiturette) /
DNF Czech GP (Voiturette) /
3 Cosenza GP
1936: DNF Monaco (Voiturette) /
4 Milan (Voiturette) /
4/DNF (heat) Albi (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
10 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
4 Lucca (Voiturette) /
7* Italian GP /
DNF Modena (Voiturette)
1937: 4* Turin GP (Voiturette) /
5* Napels (Voiturette) /
DNF Tripoli GP /
3 Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
DNS AVUS GP /
DNS Genua GP (Voiturette) /
3* Florence GP (Voiturette) /
DNA Milan (Voiturette) /
4 (heat) San Remo (Voiturette) /
2 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
DNF Lucca (Voiturette) /
DNF Campione D'Italia (Voiturette)
1938: 4 / 9 Tripoli (Voiturette / GP) /
DNF Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
2 Picardie (Voiturette) /
4* Napels (Voiturette) /
DNF Albi (Voiturette) /
DNA Varese (Voiturette) /
DNA Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
2 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
DNA La Baule (Voiturette) /
DNF Lucca (Voiturette) /
6 Milan (Voiturette)
1939: DNF Tripoli (Voiturette) /
DNF Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
5 Napels (Voiturette) /
DNA Swiss GP (Voiturette)
1940: 13 Tripoli (Voiturette) /
4 Targa Florio (Voiturette)
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Luigi Emilio Rodolfo Bertetti "Gino" Bianco (I/BR) |
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* 22 Jul 1916
† 8 May 1984 |
Torino (I)
Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro (BR) |
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Gino Bianco was born in Turin, but has been living in Rio since 1928 while still holding an Italian citizenship. He was "discovered" by the Argentine-based Italian driver Vittorio Rosa and grew to
become one of the most distinguished Brazilian drivers. Bianco, who owned a garage in Rio, later shared with Landi and Cantoni the Scuderia Bandeirantes experience of a World Drivers Championship
season in 1952. He quit racing in 1954 dedicating himself to a new sport, fishing, but came back for just one race during 1961. He died of cancer in 1984. Bianco was a specialist of the Subidas,
the short hillclimbs held in the district of Rio: he won 19 of them from 1946 to 1953 together with two Brazilian Formule Libre races. Gino Bianco was a shortening of his full name: Luigi
Emilio Rodolfo Bertetti Bianco.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva and David Webb) |
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1938: DNF Circuito de Gávea
1939: DNF Circuito de Gávea
1940: DNF Circuito de Gávea
1941: ? Rio de Janeiro GP
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Jean Bielovucic - SEE: "Valcourt"
Ulrich "Ulli" Bigalke (D) |
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* 1 Jul 1910
† 12 Aug 1940 |
Essen
English Channel |
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Born in Essen, Bigalke studied in Berlin-Charlottenburg for an engineering's degree.
He came to sudden fame when he entered a 2000 km race in 1934 in a 1 litre Fiat Ballilla
sports car and won. In the summer of 1935, Bigalke joined Auto Union as Willi Walb's assistent.
He also drove a 2-liter Audi in local races.
He made himself generally useful to the team doing the travelling arrangments, reservations,
being a truck driver, timekeeper, pit helper etc. He made all of Auto Union's
racing reports, which served as information for the firm's management. His hobby was photography and
he made two films about the team both in 1936 and 1937. He worked as assistant engineer in
chassis and brake research. His ability as a race driver was noticed at the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup as
he made some competitive lap times when he had to break in the cars. After a test drive he was selected as
reserve for the 1938-39 seasons. His only start for the team was the 1939 Eifelrennen as the team prefered Meier as driver.
In Italy the ladies called him "Vesuvio".
At the war Bigalke joined Luftwaffe and died during the Battle of Britain (Junkers Ju88-A1 - III/KG 51, probably shot down by a Spitfire from 152 Squadron RAF during an attack on Portsmouth).
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| (Info supplied by Hans Etzrodt) |
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1938: DNS French GP
1939: 6 Eifel GP /
DNS Belgrad GP
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Amedeo Bignami (I) |
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24 Aug 1904
† 21 Aug 1954 |
Mantova
Verona |
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had been Nuvolari’s mechanic before joining Achille Varzi at the beginning of the 1930s. After Varzi’s death he managed the early European visits of the Argentinean drivers supported by
the A.C.A. and, for a while, he played the same role for Fangio as he had done for Varzi, but they soon parted company, as the Argentinean did not get along with him. Then Bignami tried
to follow in Abarth’s footsteps, building special mufflers for production cars, but died whilst still young, soon afterwards.
Bignami was more than a mechanic for Varzi, being also his friend and manager. It is curious that while the role of manager of top drivers was not unheard of in the 1930s it was not
referred to as such. Nuvolari and Varzi for instance had “Secretaries” who had a role somewhat similar to that of present day managers. The job of mediation and liaison between drivers,
teams and organisers, though deemed necessary, was perhaps viewed as a bit ‘shameful’ and generally overlooked in press reports.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva and Simon Davis) |
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1929: DNF Cremona Circuit
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Mario Bilotti (I) |
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From Cosenza. He raced intermittently in Calabrian races before the war and then switched to regular national activity, at the wheel of various sports cars. Many of them were prepared by Sabatino
Paganelli in Naples.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1928: DNA Pozzo Circuit
1931: DNA Alessandria GP
1935: 5 Cosenza GP
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Giulio Binda (I) |
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* 27 Dec 1899
† 8 May 1984 |
Milano
Chiari, Brescia |
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Industrialist (paper mills). World War II pilot. Active in motor racing from 1923 to 1932 and in 1934. Winner of the 1927 MM class (see Belgir). Married Franco Mazzotti's sister in 1935 and
collaborated in the organisation of the Mille Miglia after World War II.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1923: 1 (4) Garda Circuit (1100cc)
1925: DNA Coppa Acerbo (1500cc)
1926: 2 Tripoli GP (1500cc)
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René Maurice Biolay (F) |
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* 25 Jul 1906
† 3 Mar 1945 |
Saint-Martin-des-Besaces, Normandie
Buchenwald, Thüringen, Germany |
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Delahaye driver. Took part at the 1938 & 1939 Le Mans with Louis Villeneuve finishing 4th and 6th. Died in the Buchenwald concentration camp 1945.
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| (Info supplied by Jean-Charles Colombier) |
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1938: 4 Frontières (Voiturette)
1939: 7 Pau GP /
10 Coupe de Paris /
DNA Frontières GP
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Antonio Biondo (I) |
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From Messina He died at the age of 100 years.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1927: DNF Coppa Messina
1928: 9 Coppa Messina
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"B. Bira" (Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh) (T) |
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* 15 Jul 1914
† 24 Dec 1985
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Bangkok, Siam
Hammersmith, London |
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Birabongse was a member of the Royal Thai family. He came to England in 1927 to study at Eton and Cambridge. He started racing
in 1935 with a Riley and a MG Magnette and showed such promise that his cousin and supporter Prince Chula
Chakrabongse bought him a ERA for his 21st birthday. Entered under the pseudonym "B. Bira" for Chula's
"White Mouse Stable", Birabongse became one of the top names in the Voiturette class in 1935-1936, with a record
including three victories. In 1937, the team unsuccessfully tried to rebuilt Seaman's
old Delage with a limited budget. As a result car preparation suffered and "Bira" won just one race.
For 1938 and 1939 "Bira" raced a ex works ERA-C and once again proved to be victorious as he raced mostly in Britain,
the car being no match against the latest Italian Voiturettes. "Bira" also raced in some GP races but his origin made
him unsuitable for a works drive by the top teams.
After the war "Bira" continued racing Maseratis and Simca-Gordinis. He raced Maseratis and Maserati-OSCAs for
Enrico Platé from 1949 onwards. He also raced for Gordini and Connaught teams and as a privateer Maserati driver before
retiring in 1955. His Formula 1 record includes 19 championship starts and 8 points. Extremly short sighted and always
racing with glasses or special built goggles, "Bira" was considered to be a good and very consistent driver if not among the very fastest.
Bira was also interesting in sailing, taking part in the four Olympic Games (see details here).
He was also an accompished sculptor and his art works can be seen on the base of a fountain at the Silverstone track.
Prince Bira had heart attack at the Barons Court London Underground station and died at the Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham, 24 December 1985.
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1935: 2 Dieppe (Voiturette) /
2 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
5 Donington GP /
3 Mountain
1936: 1 Monaco (Voiturette) /
1 JCC International Trophy (Handicap) /
2 Isle of Man (Voiturette) /
3 Eifel (Voiturette) /
1 Picardie (Voiturette) /
1 Albi (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
DNF Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
DNF JCC 200 (Voiturette) /
5 Donington GP /
3 Mountain
1937: DNF Turin GP (Voiturette) /
2 Napels (Voiturette) /
1 Campbell Trophy /
DNS Campbell Trophy (Voiturette) /
1 Isle of Man (Voiturette) /
DNF Florence GP (Voiturette) /
DNF* Milan GP /
DNF Milan (Voiturette) /
DNC (heat) Picardie (Voiturette) /
1 London GP /
1* Donington 12 Hours (sports car) /
3 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
2 JCC 200 GP /
DNF Dublin (Voiturette) /
4 Czech GP (Voiturette) /
6 Donington GP /
1 Imperial Trophy (handicap)
1938: 1 Coronation Trophy (handicap) /
1 Campbell Trophy /
2 Cork GP /
1 Cork (Voiturette) /
1 (heat)/DNF Picardie (Voiturette) /
1 London GP /
1 Nuffield Trophy (handicap) /
14* Swiss GP /
DNF Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
2 (1 GP class) JCC 200 (Voiturette + GP) /
1 Siam Challenge (Voiturette)
1939: 1 JCC International Trophy (handicap) /
1 Sydenham Trophy /
1 Nuffield Trophy (Voiturette) /
DNS French GP (Voiturette) /
3 Albi (Voiturette) /
2 Campbell Trophy
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Hans Birk (D) |
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Technical Director at the RABAG factory at Mannheim. Works driver with a Bugatti T13 Brescia Course badge-engineered as RABAG.
After the bankruptcy of RABAG in early 1926 together with his commercial collegue Hans Balduf he established Birk & Balduf GmbH at Mannheim
and took over the remaining parts and equipment to assemble an unknown number of Rabags, including a race car for himself,
which he sporadically raced until 1927. According to Erwin Tragatsch this car was highly competitive at 60 hp, and "Motor und Sport"
reported that at the 1927 Krähberg hillclimb the car was supercharged. After 1927 Birk popped up only once at the
Wachenburg hillclimb near Weinheim on 3 May 1935 where he achieved 3rd place in the race car class, behind Steinweg
and only a few seconds slower than Hummel with his quick Amilcar C6.
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| (Info supplied by Michael Müller) |
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1925: 1 Solitude GP (1500cc)
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Sir Henry Ralph Stanley "Tim" Birkin 3rd Baronet (GB) |
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* 26 Jul 1896
† 22 Jun 1933 |
Basford, Nottinghamshire
Marylebone, London |
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Birkin was a small man who stuttered badly and had a car wrecking driving style.
Still for the 1920s British racing enthusiasts Birkin became the prototype for the heroic British driver, a fearless guy with a a blue white
spotted scarf around his neck. Birkin was one of the "Bentley Boys".
Tim Birkin was born into a wealthy Nottingham family.
During World War he joined the Royal Flying Corps, ending up as a Lieutenant. In Palestine
he contracted malaria that he was to suffer from for the rest of his life.
Tired of civilian office work he tried motor racing in 1921 as a relief, racing a DFP at Brooklands. However business forced him to
give up serious competition until 1927. Racing a Bentley with Jean Chassagne he finised 5th at the 1928 Le Mans 24h race.
The next year Birkin and Woolf Barnato won Le Mans in a Bentley "Speed Six".
Birking became a supercharger enthusiast and backed up by Dorothy Paget he sat up a factory at Welvey. The 4.5 litre supercharged "Blower Bentley"
made its debut in the 1930 Essex Six hours at Brooklands. Birkin persuated Bentley to produce a series of 50 supercharged cars to quality the model for
Le Mans. However the model while spectacular proved fragtile and Birkin had to retire the 1930 Le Mans. Birkin finished second in the 1930 French GP.
at Pau. He also set a series of speed records at Brooklands that year.
In April 1931 Tim Birkin became Sir Henry Birkin. For 1931 he raced Maseratis in Grand Prix races and Maseratis in sports cars events. He came fourth at the Belgian GP and with Earl Howe won Le Mans for a
second time. In 1932 he continued setting lap records at Brooklands, won at Phoenix Par in a Alfa Romeo and won a famous duel against Cobb's
Delage at Brooklands. For 1933 took delivery of a 3 litre Maserati. He came third at Tripoli but during his race he burnt his hand against
the exhaust-pipe. The wound turned septic and combined with malaria the illness proved fatal. Birkin died in the Countess Carnavon Nursing Home, London 1933.
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1930: 2 French GP
1931: DNS Monaco GP /
4* French GP /
4* Belgian GP /
10 German GP /
1 Mountain
1932: DNF Empire Trophy /
DNA AVUS GP /
DNA French GP /
3* Spa 10h (sports car)
1933: DNF Monaco GP /
DNA Bordino GP /
3 Tripoli GP /
DNA Frontières GP /
DNA French GP
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Otakar Bittmann (CS) |
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* 27 May 1891
† 13 Sep 1945 |
Kamenice
Brno |
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Famous physician, gynecologist and surgeon, but also known racing driver and pilot. He bought his first racing car, a brand new Bugatti T37, in 1928 . Raced in many hill climbs
with Bugatti or with Austro-Daimler in touring car category, often breaking records. Bittmann started in the 1928 German GP (sports cars) but retired after Cenek Junek's fatal crash. Later that year he bought a
Bugatti T35C from Elisabeth Junek. At the beginning of 1929 he was considered best Czech driver. In Targa Florio that year he gave up and passed his car to Mario Lepori. Next year he finished 12th.
He started in Grand Prix of Nations on Nürburgring in 1929, but retired with broken valve spring. In that time he became one of the initiators of new Masaryk circuit in Brno. The first race on Masaryk
circuit (September 1930) was his last. In memory of Cenek Junek he established "Bittmann prize" of 5000 CZK for driver with best performance on 7th lap. The prize was given for several years
(e.g.1932 received by Nuvolari). Bittmann then focused on his career and became professor of Brno University and senior doctor in Olomouc gynecology hospital.
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| (Info supplied by Jiri Mewald) |
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1929: DSQ Targa Florio
1930: 12 Targa Florio /
DNF Czech GP /
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Arthur Norman Black (GB) |
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* 17 Nov 1894
† 23 Feb 1973 |
Leicester
Hove, East Sussex |
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Norman Black left shool at age 13 to work in his Father's Boot Factory in Leicestershire.
Was a stretcher bearer and later MC orderly during WWI. In the 1920s he raced motorcycles and
competed in eight Motor Cycle TT's and in many 6-day Trials, Speed Trials, Hill Climbs. Won many cups & trophies on motor cycles
during 1920-31. Turned to car racing in 1931.
He won the 1931 Phoenix Park GP and the Tourist trophy at Ards and was awarded the 1931 Gold Star.
He continued racing hillclimbs, sports cars (Including Le Mans 1932-37) and rallies (including the Monte Carlo Rally) until 1950.
During WW2 he worked as a factories inspector.
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1932: DNA Mountain
1934: 1 Mannin Beg (Voturette)
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Aimery Louis Jules Henry Blacque-Bélair (F) |
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* 21 Aug 1898
† 15 Jul 1989 |
Reims
Paris |
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Son of a general and cavalry instructor, he enlisted in the French army in 1915 and after WW1 became a jockey. He was Secretary General of the L’Intransigeant
newspaper and ran for political office. He succeeded in becoming Deputy of the Seine region from 2nd December 1928 to 31st May 1936 which appears to have
curtailed his motor racing exploits. He was then appointed Director in the Franco-Moroccan administration. At the outbreak of WW2 he rejoined the army and was
assigned to the aviation group. After many missions he crashed and after the armistice rejoined the Franco-Moroccan administration. He was involved with the
American landings in North Africa and became a paratrooper, seeing action at Normandy. After the war he took over the management of cultural affairs in Rabat,
Morocco. He was awarded the Légion d’honneur and married Marie Anne de Godziemba Godebska in 1925 but she died in 1949.
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| (Info supplied by Simon Davis) |
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1928: 7 (heat) Grand Prix Bugatti /
1 La Baule GP /
DNF European GP
1929: DNA Burgundy GP
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Robert Blondiaux né Ruys (F) |
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* 21 Jun 1909
† 9 Sep 1996 |
Valenciennes, Nord, Hauts-de-France
Henin-Beaumont, Pas-de-Calais |
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1934: 8 Albi GP /
DNA Comminges GP
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Franco Boggio (I) |
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From Biella. Fascist "black shirt".
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1923: 3 Cremona Circuit
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Gaspare Bona (I) |
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* 18 Dec 1895
† 25 Nov 1940 |
Carignano
Torino |
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Industrialist. Owner of the Bona e Delleani textile mill located in Carignano (prov. of Turin) founded in the second half of the 20th century, which expanded to such an extent that the village
became a one-company-town, thus decreeing its deep crisis when the wool mill closed in the 1970s. After serving as an artillery officer throughout the First World War, Gaspare Bona trained
abroad in technical and commercial matters, before returning to the company in the early 1920s, becoming its driving force from 1933 until his death. Passionate about music, Gaspare Bona
studied the violin, later switching to piano and composition. Some of his works, generally dating back to the 1920s, were played and performed in public.
He was very sporty. Since his assiduous presence at the factory was proverbial, it is difficult to imagine how he could add to all his activities that of a keen sportsman. He began as
a footballer in the Juventus youth team, in which his brother Valerio played at Serie A level. His father Valerio Massimo was a well-known mountaineer, and Gaspare was also a mountain
enthusiast. After a switch to motor boating and motorbikes, he devoted himself to motor racing from 1923. He began with a Lancia Lambda with which he scored several class victories.
His driving style was decisive and left much to instinct, somewhat contradictory for the business theorist and musician. In fact, he suffered many accidents, road and racing, for a
total of fifteen! Switching to a Bugatti 2-litre in 1925, Bona began to make a name for himself before acquiring a powerful Bugatti T35B, with which he won at Alessandria, Pozzo and
Savio in 1927. His best race was the Coppa della Perugina that year, in which he severely challenged the winner Materassi, repeatedly setting the fastest lap but destroying the gearbox.
Bona switched to an Alfa Romeo 1500 the following year, distinguishing himself at the Targa Abruzzi. From 1929 onwards, his motor racing activities thinned out, partly as a result of an
extremely serious accident at the Sestrière regularity race, caused by a cyclist. He resumed sporadically until the mid-1930s at the wheel of the inevitable 6- and 8-cylinder
Alfa Romeos.
He had in fact taken up flying, an activity that increasingly absorbed his enormous energies, until he bought his own plane. A fighter pilot and specialist in aerobatic
flying, he had enlisted as a volunteer in 1940 with the rank of Maggiore (Major). Over the Caselle airfield, Turin, during a test flight his Fiat CR42 Falco suffered a failure.
Avoiding crashing into the town, he maneuvered to bring the plane to an open field, but that cost him his life after a late parachute jump.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1924: DNF Cremona Circuit
1925: 2 Alessandria GP /
DNF Savio Circuit (2000cc)
1926: DNF Alessandria GP /
DNF Savio Circuit (2000cc) /
DNF Coppa Perugina
1927: 1 Pozzo Circuit /
1 Alessandria GP /
1 Savio Circuit (2000cc) /
DNF Coppa Perugina /
4 Rome GP /
3 Bologna Circuit /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
4 Milan GP (heat) /
DNF Garda Circuit
1928: DNF Pozzo Circuit /
DNS Alessandria GP /
7 Mugello Circuit /
DNA Rome GP /
DNF Cremona Circuit /
6* Coppa Acerbo
1929: 9 Alessandria GP
1931: DNF Coppa Ciano
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Miloš Otto Bondy (CZ) |
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* 1895
† 1942 |
Prague
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Born into the family of a wealthy Jewish businessmen.
After graduating he became partner in road transport company that hovever went bankrupt. Was then part owner of the "Avia"
aircraft factory (1921-28) and involved in several other projects including a moorcycle factory "MB-Miloš Bondy".
He started racing in 1921 with a Praga. Raced an Austro-Daimler in 1922.
For the 1928 season he bought a new Bugatti T37 from he Prague representative Vladimír Gut and raced it during 1928-31 seasons.
Winner of the 1928 and 1929 Brno-Soběšice and 1928 Ecce-Homo hillclimbs.
He resided Paris at the begining of the war. He failed to get a French citizenship but cooperated with the French intelligence.
Moved Budapest, where he led an intelligence group. Was arrested on 19 February 1940, accused and convicted of treason and executed 1942.
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1930: 7 Czech GP
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Felice Bonetto (I) |
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* 9 Jun 1903
† 21 Nov 1953 |
Brescia
Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico |
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Bonetto raced a Alfa Romeo Monza 1933-35 without bigger success except for a 3rd place in the
infamous 1933 Monza GP. Bonetto's greast successes came later in his career, in the late 40s and early 50s.
In 1948 he raced for Cisitalia in Formula 2, winning the Nuvolari Cup at Mantua.
In 1949 he raced for Scuderia Ferrari both in Formula 1 and Formula 2 and with Carpani he took a Ferrari to
2nd place at the 1949 Mille Miglia.
In 1950 he raced Maeratis for Scuderia Milano and in 1951 he signed for Alfa Romeo. In 1952 he raced some F1 for Maserati and
sports car for Lancia taking the the victory at the Targa Florio. In 1953 he did a full GP season for Maserati
and continud racing Lancia sports cars. He won the Portuguese GP at Lisbon but at the Carrera Panemericana in Mexico, passing the
village of Silao, Guanajuato, he crashed the Lancia into a lamppost with fatal results.
Bonetto was known as a fearless and aggressive driver.
He took part in 15 World Championship GP starts and collected a total of 17.5 points.
Interestingly Alessandro Silva has pointed out to me that it is impossible to find contemporary Italian sources mentioning the name
"Il Pirata" (the Pirate) often seen in post war racing litterature.
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1933: 3 Monza GP
1934: DNF (heat) Bordino GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNS Coppa Acerbo
1935: DNF Tripoli GP /
DNQ Bergamo GP /
DNF (heat) Turin GP
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Giovanni Bonmartini (I) |
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* 18 Jan 1886
† 21 Dec 1974 |
Padova (Padua)
Roma (Rome) |
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Military man. Aviator. Intermittent racing driver (1921-1927), with Salmson, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Mercedes Benz among others). Industrialist. Founder: CNA- Coop. Nazionale Aeronautica,
Roma (1920), later Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica(1922-1935); Soc.An. Costruzioni Aeronautiche Pegna-Bonmartini (1922).
Vice Presidente Reale Automobile Club Roma. Creator and promoter Aeroporto and Autodromo del Littorio (1928/1930).
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1924: 1 Coppa Acerbo (2000cc)
1925: DNS Rome GP (2000cc)
1926: 3* Rome GP
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Claude Bonneau (B) |
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* ?
† 1943 |
?
? |
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Raced a MG cars in 1938 and 1939 at Le Mans and Spa. Died during the war.
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1934: DNF Picardie (Voiturette)
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Jules "René" Bonnet (F) |
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* 27 Dec 1904
† 13 Jan 1983 |
Vaumas, Allier, Auvergne
Épernay, Marne |
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Bonnet was a central figure in French racing in the middle
of the 20th century. He was the son of a cabinet-maker and had been
always very keen on mechanical things. In the 1930s he moved to
Champigny-sur-Marne to help in his sister's family garage. There he met
Charles Deutsch, a gifted engineer who had put his mechanical shop for sale
and Bonnet had shown up for the purchase. The two became friends
and partners in a business which specialised in tuning engines and
building special parts. Deutsch was very interested in front wheel drive
so it was natural that their attention turned to the Citroën Traction
Avant when they decided to build a sports car in 1938. Their cars were
going to be called DB-Citroën. Chassis 1 was ready for the Monthléry 12
hours race in 1938. A total of nine racing cars with Citroën engines,
out of which up to 75 bhp were extracted, were built until 1949. DB
switched to Panhard engines in 1950. The achievements of the tiny and
ingenious DB-Panhard in the World Constructor Championship and in
several single-seater feeder formulae are well known. In 1962 René
Bonnet struck an agreement with Renault while Deutsch did not seem any
longer interested in the good functioning of the DB partnership. Matra
purchased Bonnet's works at Champigny in 1964.
Bonnet died in an road accident at Épernay, Marne in 1983.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1939: 3 (heat) Angouleme
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Pietro Bordino (I) |
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* 22 Nov 1887
† 15 Apr 1928. |
Torino (Turin), Italy
Alessandria, Italy |
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Probably the finest driver of his generation Pietro Bordino preceded Nuvolari as the great Italian hero. Bordino was born 1887 in Turin, Italy. In 1904 he started as a 17-year old teenager with the FIAT
factory as riding mechanic to Vincenzo Lancia and Felice Nazzaro. He made his debut as driver at the 1908 Château-Thierry hill climb. In 1910 he won the 1-mile Modena speed trial. The following year he appeared at
the Brooklands oval to set records with the 300 hp Fiat. He finished in the 1913 Targa Florio in a Lancia. After the war, he retired in the 1921 Targa Florio with a 3-liter and led the Italian GP at
Brescia before having to retire. In 1922 he shipped a Fiat to the USA and raced at six Californian speedway events. Back in Europe at the 1922 he continued racing Fiat, winning two races at the opening of the
new Monza autodrome. In 1923 Bordino and Giaccone had a serious practice accident at Monza, where Giaccone was killed while Bordino survived with a broken arm.
He and Nazarro finished third in the 1924 Targa Florio. Late that same year he again took a Fiat to the USA where he raced until 1925 finishing 10th at the Indy 500. In 1927 he won the Gran Premio Milano.
When Fiat withdrew from racing and he changed to Bugatti buying a T35C (#4866) from Molsheim in March 1928. During practice for the Alessandria GP, near the mill at San Michele on Sunday, April 15, a large Alsatian dog ran
into his car, blocking the steering, causing his car to skid off the dirt road down the steep ravine into a tributary channel of the Tanaro River, killing Bordino and his mechanic.
See also: Epitaph
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1921: DNF Targa Florio /
DNA French GP /
DNF Italian GP
1922: DNF French GP /
1 Italian GP
1923: DNF French GP /
DNF European GP
1924: 3 Targa Florio (1500cc) /
DNF European GP
1927: 1 Milan GP /
DNA European GP /
DNA British GP
1928: DNF Pozzo Circuit /
DNA Alessandria GP
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Edvard William Börjesson (S) |
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* 25 Sep 1900
† 14 Apr 1979 |
Stockholm
Stockholm |
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Worked in the automotive industry and was a fully qualified pilot.
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1931: DNS Swedish Winter GP (Ice race)
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Sven Arthur Alfred Börjesson (S) |
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* 4 Apr 1903
† 21 Jun 1978 |
Stockholm
Stockholm |
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| (Info supplied by Håkan Gelin) |
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1932: DNA Swedish Winter GP (Ice race)
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Bossu - SEE: "Barowski"
Léon Boucard (F) |
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Drove a Salmson before and after WW2.
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1937: DNF Frontières GP
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Pierre Abel Bouchez (F) |
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* 18 Jan 1892
† 18 Apr 1965 |
Reims, Marne
Paris 16e |
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1926: DNF Marne GP
1927: 10 Marne GP
1928: DNF Marne GP
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Bouillin - SEE: "Levegh"
Georges Bouriano (RO/B) |
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* 20 Aug 1901
† ? |
?
? |
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Bouriano was a Romanian emigré who started racing in Italy in the early
twenties, before moving to Belgium where he initially raced a
"Speedsport", a Special with a model T Ford engine with a 16-valve
special head built by Jean Bartsoen.
He drove this car in speed trials at Ostenda, Spa, Chimay, during 1926.
He later raced a EHP, a French cyclecar, together with the Speedsport.
In 1929 he acquired a T35C Bugatti, which he extensively raced in Italy,
France and Spain, taking second place in the first Monaco Grand Prix
behind "Williams", probably the best achievement of his career. It is
clear that at this stage Bouriano was considering taking up a
professional career, so he bought a Type 35B Bugatti new from factory in
March 1930. He raced without luck at Monaco, Alessandria and Dieppe,
suddenly disappearing from records afterwards. The Bugatti T35B was sold
to Legat in 1934.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1929: DNF Antibes GP /
DNA Riviera Circuit /
2 Monaco GP /
DNA Alessandria GP /
DNF Rome GP /
DNA Pozzo Circuit /
DNF Mugello Circuit /
7 Dieppe GP /
7 San Sebastian GP
1930: DNF Monaco GP /
DNF Alessandria GP /
DNA European (Belgian) GP /
DNF Dieppe GP /
DNF Comminges GP /
DNA French GP
1932: DNF Frontières GP
1933: DNA Frontières GP
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Raymond Edmond Bourlier (F) |
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* 15 oct 1897
† 25 Mar 1936 |
Arcueil, Île-de-France
Puteaux, Île-de-France |
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Joined the Talbot team in 1923. Won the 1500cc class of the 1926 Provence GP. Moved to Delage for Grand Prix racing and did some good results including winning the 1927
La Turbie. Became an independent Bugatti driver after Delage withdrev from racing. In the spring of 1936 he decided to end his own life after being ill for a long time.
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| (Info supplied by Jean-Charles Colombier) |
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1926: DNF Provence GP (1500cc) /
DNA French GP /
2* European GP
1927: 2 French GP /
3 Spanish GP /
DNF La Baule GP /
2 British GP
1928: DNS /DNF* San Sebastian GP
1929: 5 San Sebastian GP /
DNS Monza GP
1931: DNF* French GP
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Robert Lawrence "Bobby" Bowes (GB) |
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* 1 Apr 1908
† 12 Jan 1993 |
Waukegan, Illinois, USA
Torquay, Devon |
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1930: DNS Monaco GP /
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Joseph "Joe" Boyer Jr. (USA) |
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* 30 May 1889
† 2 Sep 1924 |
St. Louis, Missouri
Tipton, Pennsylvania |
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Winner of the 1924 Indianapolis 500.
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1921: DNF French GP
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Francis Georges Achille ""Jacques Achille" Boyriven (F) |
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* 30 Jan 1889
† 4 Apr 1945 |
Paris 9e
Avallon, Yonne |
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| (Info supplied by André Reine) |
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1929: DNS Algerian GP
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Charles Edgar Mills Brackenbury (GB) |
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* 1 Feb 1907
† 2 Nov 1959 |
South Elkington, Lincolnshire
Woking, Surrey |
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Charles Brackenbury had a garage near the Brooklands racetrack, and he started his racing career
there in 1929 with an old French BNC. From 1930 - 1933 he drove a red Bugatti T37, and 1933 - 1934 a MG Midget.
From 1935 on he raced with an ex-Mme. Hellé-Nice Bugatti T35C. Sometimes he raced others cars
such as Dixon's Riley or Martin's Alfa Romeo in 1936-37, and at Brooklands he
could sometimes be seen in a a 11-year-old Sunbeam!
In 1938 he started with different Bugattis (T37A, T35C and T51) and in 39 with an ERA and
a works-Lagonda. After the war he continued entering races and hillclimbs until 1953, when he retired. He died
ten years later. His greatest successes were third places at the Le Mans 24h in 1935 and 1939.
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| (Info supplied by Jörg Bensemann) |
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1933: DNF Mannin Moar /
DNA Albi GP
1935: 7 Mannin Moar
1937: DNF Coronation Trophy (Voiturette)
(5) Campbell Trophy /
7* JCC 200 GP /
4* JCC 200 (Voiturette)
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Louis Braillard (CH) |
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* 25 Dec 1906
† 1996 |
Renens, Vaud
? |
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Started racing in GP events in 1932 with a private Bugatti T35B. In 1933 he changed to a Bugatti T51,
winning at Albi. The same year, he formed a racing team with Benoit
Falchetto, financed by Louis' sister Nelly. In January 1934, the team bought two Maserati 8CM and
endered them under the name Ecurie Braillard. Braillard drove this car the following years and had some good races but no major wins.
When Braillard stopped racing in 1934, Robert Brunet replaced him. Ecurie Braillard
carried with the same drivers and cars till the end of 1935.
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1932: 7 Marseille GP
1933: 11 Tunis GP /
5 Nimes GP /
DNF Marne GP /
6 La Baule GP /
1 Albi GP
1934: 4 Picardie GP /
DNF Montreux GP /
DNF Albi GP
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Cesare Brambilla (I) |
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* 3 May 1885
† 3 Mar 1954
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Bernareggio
Milano |
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Brambilla had been Bianchi's works driver in 1908 and 1909, driving the 120HP Grand Prix car designed by Giuseppe Merosi. Brambilla had resumed racing in 1923, at the wheel of a
one-litre, twin-cylinder Anzani cyclecar, with which he scored two good class wins. Taking into account the arrival of the fast Salmson cars on the cyclecar scene, Brambilla, who
had switched to GAR, did not disappoint in the two-year period 1924/25, achieving four class victories, including a notable one at Garda on Clerici. It is not certain to this day
whether Cesare Brambilla was the same as the cycling racer Cesare Luigi Brambilla who raced for the Bianchi team at the same time as Cesare Brambilla drove for the same company,
although this seems likely. The Cesare Brambilla cyclist was the winner of the important 1906 Giro di Lombardia.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1923: DNF Garda Circuit (1100cc)
1924: DNC Cremona Circuit (1100cc) /
DNF Garda Circuit (1100cc)
1925: 2 Alessandria GP (1100cc) /
DNA Coppa Acerbo /
1 Garda Circuit (1100cc)
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Josef Brázdil (A/CS) |
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* 26 Oct 1904
† 28 Sep 1934
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?
? |
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Brázdil from Bratislava loaned money to buy a Maserati 6C-34. Died in a bizarre accident at the 1934 Czech GP.
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1934: DNS Czech GP
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Raffaele Breda (I) |
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* 14 Dec 1900
† 17 Apr 1978 |
Turrivalignani, Pescara
Pescara |
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Graduate engineer. Aviator. Captain Royal Air Force. 1930, Founder and President of the Aero Club of Pescara, later (1955) named after him. Active in motor racing 1926 and 1931/32.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1926: DNF Coppa Acerbo (1500cc)
1931: DNA Coppa Acerbo
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Jean Alexandre Breillet (F) |
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* 4 Aug 1903
† 20 Mar 1980 |
Paris 12e
Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes |
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Raced a team Gordini Simca at LeMans 1938 & 1939.
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| (Info supplied by André Reine) |
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1935: DNF Dieppe (Voiturette) /
7 La Baule (Voiturette)
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Heinz Brendel (D) |
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* 16 Jan 1915
† 1 Dec 1989 |
Frankfurt am Main
? |
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Supported by his father, who also was a racing driver, Brendel started racing at an age of 17.
In 1935, he started in his first major race, the Eifelrennen, finishing second in the 1.1-liter sports
car class. More victories came with a 1.1 litre Fiat in local events before Brendel was invited to the
Mercedes "driver school" at the Nürburgring. There he crashed a W25 GP car,
suffering minor injuries while the car started burning.
For 1937, Neubauer selected him to join in the tests at Monza and he signed for the team as a reserve driver.
Tested the Mercedes-Benz W125 during practice for the German GP 1937.
Entered the German GP 1939 as fourth driver. He made a sensational practice session
and started 5th on the grid. During the race he was asked to come in to give over the car to Lang but instead
he continued and crashed. When he phoned for someone to pick him up, Neubauer replied that Brendel could start
walking. That proved to be the only race of his GP career.
Shortly after the race during a training session at Nürburgring, the saddle tank caught fire at
Döttinger Höhe. Brendel just had enough time to steer into the low bushes
and jump from the moving car, waking up the next day at hospital.
He was nominated as reserve driver for the Swiss GP.
After the war, Brendel raced an 1.1 litre Porsche.
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| (Info supplied by Hans Etzrodt) |
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1937: DNS German GP
1939: DNF German GP /
DNS Swiss GP
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von Breslau - SEE: Adolf Brudes
Albert Edouard Antoine Bret (F) |
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* 9 Nov 1907
† 3 May 1996 |
Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes
Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes |
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Born in Cannes 1907 Bret's father was a lawyer, city councillor and owner of the Hôtel des Anglais, whilst his mother was the hotel
manager. In 1923 he precociously achieved his first victory driving an Amilcar. He also competed in a Georges Irat and a BNC as well as on a Smart motorcycle. He acquired
a Bugatti touring car before purchasing a Bugatti T35C (#4855) from the factory in June 1927. He also used a T37 Bugatti. At the 1929 London Motor Show he exchanged the T35 Bugatti for
a De Havilland Gipsy Moth biplane with Sir Malcolm Campbell. He ceased motor racing and developed into an accomplished professional test pilot and instructor. On the
outbreak of WW2 he was called up by the French Air Force until the 1940 armistice with Germany. In 1942 he escaped to Portugal via Spain and joined the Free French Forces.
He travelled to Ireland in 1943 and then joined the British Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. In recognition of his services he received the Croix de Guerre and Légion
d’Honneur from the French and the MBE and OBE from the British. (Regarded also as an Englishman might have possessed dual nationality) He joined the board of
Silver City Airways in 1948, after getting married the previous year. He became the tourism assistant for the Cannes City Council in 1950; founded the
Automobile Club de Cannes and was chairman of the Cannes Yacht Club from 1956 to 1978. Died in Cannes 1996.
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| (Info supplied by Simon Davis & André Reine) |
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1927: 5 San Sebastian GP
1928: DNA Saint Raphaël /
2 Riviera Circuit /
DNF Antibes GP
1929: DNS Antibes GP /
1 Riviera Circuit /
DNA Marne GP (Voiturette) /
DNF La Baule GP (Voiturette)
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Andrea Brezzi (I) |
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* 31 Jul 1910
† 21 Dec 1940. |
Ollomont, Val d'Aosta
Albania |
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Was born in a prominent family originally from Alessandria but based in Turin, his father Giuseppe being a Senator and a high-ranking manager in industry and in insurance. Andrea was a
graduate engineer from the Turin Polytechnic, where he specialized in processing hard metals, a totally new subject in Italy during the 1930s. He was also an accomplished sportsman, in
skiing and athletics (long jump), taking part in various motor races, driving cars provided by his affluent Turinese friends, from 1937 to 1940. He became an aviator, as his father had
once been, and served his military service in the Ethiopian war as a bomber pilot. At the outbreak of WWII, he was exempted from service, because his job had been deemed crucial for the
national war effort.
However, he soon volunteered as a Lieutenant (Tenente) in Regia Aeronautica and was assigned to fly in an elite unit (96 Gruppo) of German JU87 "Stuka" dive bombers, operating under
Italian command. On December 21st 1940, he volunteered to fly to the rescue of a plane lost in a mission over difficult terrain over Vajussa Valley near the Albanian-Greek border.
Hit by anti-aircraft fire, with his plane in flames, he chose not to parachute, but instead attempted a crash-landing. Unfortunately, his plane exploded in the process,
killing its pilot. Andrea Brezzi was a multi-decorated soldier (one gold, one silver, two bronze medals).
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1937: 7 Genua GP /
7 Milan GP
1938: DNS Varese (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
10 Lucca (Voiturette) /
DNF Milan (Voiturette)
1939: 6 Tripoli (Voiturette)
DNA Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
3 Coppa Ciano junior (Voiturette) /
DNF Coppa Acerbo junior (Voiturette)
1940: 7Tripoli (Voiturette) /
DNF Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
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Douglas Lewis Briault (GB) |
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* 20 May 1901
† 13 Jul 1976 |
Hampstead, London
Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia |
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Voiturette ERA driver. In March 1942, commanding torpedo motor launch ML 341 he was assigned to take part
in the famous St Nazaire raid but the launch struck engine trouble and had to return to England.
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1936: DNF Vila Real /
3* JCC 200 /
13* Donington GP
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Willi Briem (D) |
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* 23 Oct 1901
† ? 1974 |
Mörchingen, Elsaß-Lothringen
? |
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Briem owned a driving school in Ludwigsburg, Germany. During 1933, he raced a
1928 model 1.1 litre Amilcar in mountain races with good results. In the autumn of 1936,
he took part in the Mercedes "driver school" at Nürburgring but proved to
be too slow in the GP car. In the late thirties, Willi drove a few races with a BMW 328
and took part in the shortened 1940 Mille Miglia, finishing 5th.
He made a comeback after war and raced twice in 1949. He came second at the Norisring and 6th at the Kölner Kurs with a BMW engiened Holbein sportscar HH47.
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| (Info supplied by Hans Etzrodt & Hugo Boecker) |
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1933: DNF AVUS (Voiturette)
1934: 6 AVUS (Voiturette) /
? Swiss GP (Voiturette)
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Llewellyn Rolls "Puck" Briggs (GB) |
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* 25 May 1897
† 15 Nov 1960 |
Lower Camden, Chislehurst, Kent
Lambeth, London |
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Later known as "Puck", Briggs joined the British Army at the start of WW1 and was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps.
On 11 September 1916 his D.H.2 #7901 (24 Squadron RFC, Bertangles) was shot down behind enemy lines when he lost height due to engine trouble.
He was wounded and became POW before repatriation in December 1917. He retired from RAF 1928 as a Flight Lieutenant and moved to County Antrim, Northern
Ireland together with his wife, whom he married in 1924. Briggs joined his wife’s family business and was appointed to the board of the Belfast,
Mersey & Manchester Steamship Company. Briggs was also an inventor and had three patents in the early 1920s concerning aircraft and tools.
In their spare time, Briggs and his wife got involved in local amateur dramatics. In April 1933 he purchased an MG J2 and later that year started to
compete in Irish hillclimbs and races, both north and south of the border. For the 1936 season he upgraded to an MG K3 Magnette.
He rejoined the RAF in WW2 and left with the rank of Group Captain. In 1947 he moved to Kenya and became a farmer and a politician.
He represented European settler interests and opposed decolonization. In 1959 he founded the United Party but failing health led to his death in 1960.
He died at St Thomas’s Hospital in Lambeth 1960.
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| (Info supplied by Simon Davis and Adam Ferrington) |
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1936: NC Isle of Man (Voiturette)
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Gastone Brilli-Peri (I) |
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* 24 Mar 1893
† 22 Mar 1930 |
Montevarchi, Italy
Tripoli, Libya |
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Gastone Brilli-Peri, son of a countess, was born in Montevarchi 1893. Starting with bicycle racing in 1907 he raced motorcycles from 1912 onwards and and started racing cars in 1920, first with a Nazarro and then a Fiat.
He was second at Mugello in 1922 and won several hill climbs. During 1922 he crashed at the TArga Florio receiing serious injuries. He raced mainly the Steyr until the end of 1924. He won at Mugello
and Parma-Poggio di Berceto hill climb in a 4.5-liter Fiat. In 1925 he joined the Alfa Romeo Factory team, culminating with his victory in the 1925 Italian Grand Prix, which won Alfa Romeo the World Championship.
Between 1925 and 1927 he raced a Ballot in some smaller events, winning the 1925 Perugia Cup and the Savio Circuit in 1926. In a Alfa Romeo P2 he was second at Rome. In 1928 he drove for Bugatti, with a second
place in Rome and fourth at the Nürburgring. Disappointed, with the team he left Bugatti in mid-season and changed to a 1.5-liter Alfa Romeo and also one of the 1.5-liter Talbots of Emilio Materassi's Ecurie Italienne.
In 1929, racing for Scuderia Materassi, he won at Tripoli and Mugello. With Alfa Romeo he came third in the Targa Florio, second at Rome, fifth in the Coppa Ciano, fourth in the Italian Grand Prix and won at Cremona
and Tunis. On Saturday practice for the 1930 Tripoli GP Brilli-Peri was going flat out in fourth gear through the fast Suk el Giuma turn, where others used third. He lost control.
When the car overturned he was catapulted out and was killed on the spot.
See also: Epitaph
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1921: DNF Garda Circuit /
DNF Mugello Circuit /
DNF GP Gentlemen
1922: DNF Targa Florio (4500cc) /
2 Mugello Circuit /
DNF Autumn GP
1923: DNF Targa Florio /
1 Mugello Circuit (>3000cc) /
4 Coppa Montenero
1924: 11 Targa Florio (4500cc) /
DNF Mugello Circuit
1925: DNF Rome GP /
DNA Savio Circuit (2000cc) /
1 Coppa Perugina /
DNF Mugello Circuit /
DNF European GP /
DNF French GP /
1 Italian GP
1926: 2 Rome GP (2000cc) /
1 Savio Circuit /
DNF Coppa Perugina /
5 Milan GP
1927: DNF Savio Circuit /
DNF Coppa Perugina /
DNF Coppa Acerbo
1928: DNF Targa Florio /
DNS Mugello Circuit /
2 Rome GP /
DNA San Sebastian GP /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
DNF European GP
1929: 1 Tripoli GP (Voiturette) /
13 Alessandria GP /
3 Targa Florio /
2 Rome GP /
1 Mugello Circuit (1500cc) /
5 Coppa Ciano /
4 Monza GP /
1 Cremona Circuit /
1 Tunis GP
1930: DNS Tripoli (Voiturette)
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Édouard Henri Brisson (F/RA) |
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* 18 Nov 1882
† 17 Apr 1949 |
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Seine, France |
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Although a Frenchman, Brisson was born in Argentina as his parents lived there.
He lived in both France and Argentina and it is possible that he held dual nationality. His interest in motor racing was inspired by his father Henri, who was an
early member of the Automobile Club de France. Édouard is best known for his exploits at Le Mans 24h finishing second in 1924 and 1928 and third in 1925 and 1926.
In 1933 he suffered from ill health and never raced again. He was the French representative for Stutz. He married twice in 1920 and 1934. He died in Buenos
Aires? but was buried in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
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| (Info supplied by Simon Davis & André Reine) |
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1929: DNA French GP
1931: DNA French GP
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Marquis Antonio "Tonino" Brivio Sforza (I) |
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* 27 Dec 1905
† 30 Jan 1995
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Biella
Milano |
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Antonio Brivio, Marquis Sforza was born in the family of the Milan rulers of the XVth
and early XVIth centuries. Started racing in 1927. Raced Talbot-Darracq 1928.
Joined Scuderia Materassi. Alfa Romeo sportscar driver 1932-33.
Works Bugatti driver in 1934. Scuderia Ferrari from authumn 1934 - 1937.
Took part as a bobsled racer in the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Retired from racing after his marriage in 1937. A consistent driver, he turned down
an offer from Auto Union in 1936 to stay with Ferrari, with whom his main successes were
scored in Alfa Romeo sportscars. A Spa 24hrs race, two Targa Florios, a
Mille Miglia and two minor international Grands Prix are his main
victories. His decision to quit met with Ferrari's sarcasm. Brivio was,
after the war, chairman of the Sporting Commission of the Italian
Autoclub and, with Lurani, Filippini and Aymo Maggi, gave a big help to
the re-birth of Italian racing and to regain a world-wide prominence.
Some source say that Brivio, as a member of FIA since 1948, had made the
initial proposal for a WDC early in 1949. If this fact could be proved,
it would make Brivio one of the more important personalities in the
history of motor racing. It is certain, however, that Brivio was the FIA
representative at WDC races for many years.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1927: 2c/5 Alessandria GP (1100cc) /
6c/11 Savio Circuit (1500cc) /
3 Coppa Perugina (1100cc) /
DNA Bologna Circuit /
DNF Coppa Montenero (1500cc) /
DNA Milan GP
1928: DNA Tripoli GP /
DNF* Pozzo Circuit /
8 Alessandria GP /
DNF Mugello Circuit /
DNF European GP
1929: DNA Alessandria GP /
DNA Mugello Circuit
1930: 5 Alessandria GP /
DNF Coppa Ciano /
4 Coppa Acerbo /
DNF (heat) Monza GP
1932: 2* Mille Miglia (sports car) /
4*/DNF Targa Florio /
2 Coppa Messina (sports car) /
7*/9* Italian GP /
1* Spa 10h (sports car) /
7 Coppa Ciano /
4 Coppa Acerbo /
3 Circuito di Senigallia (sports car) /
4 Czech GP /
7 Monza GP
1933: 3 Bordino GP /
1 Targa Florio /
2 Coppa Ciano /
1 Swedish Summer GP /
DNA Coppa Acerbo /
DNF/5* Italian GP /
DNF Czech GP /
DNS Spanish GP
1934: DNS Tripoli GP /
DNS AVUS GP /
2 Belgian GP /
3 Coppa Acerbo /
4 Biella GP /
DNS Italian GP /
11 Spanish GP /
2 Napels GP /
2* Alger GP
1935: 3 Monaco GP /
1 Targa Florio /
DNS Tunis GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
4 Penya Rhin GP /
2 Turin GP /
DNF German GP /
2 Coppa Ciano /
3 Coppa Acerbo /
4 Modena GP /
4 Czech GP /
1 Cosenza GP
1936: 1* Mille Miglia (sports car) /
DNA Pau GP /
5* Monaco GP /
7 Tripoli GP /
DNF Tunis GP /
DNF Penya Rhin GP /
3 Eifel GP /
DNA Hungarian GP /
4 Milan GP /
3 German GP /
2 Coppa Ciano /
4 Coppa Acerbo /
DNF Lucca GP /
3 Vanderbilt Cup
1937: 1 Turin GP /
10 Tripoli GP /
DNA AVUS GP /
3 Rio de Janeiro GP /
DNF Monaco GP /
6 Czech GP
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Nevill Seymour Brocklebank (GB) |
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* 14 Jun 1913
† 11 May 1999 |
Pyrford, Surrey
Leybourne, Kent |
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1936: DNF JCC 200
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Paul Jacques Brosselin (F) |
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* 24 Oct 1900
† 30 Jan 1978 |
Paris 08e
Baraize, Indre |
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From Paris. Bought one of the Lyon T35 from Bugatti’s Paris showroom which he raced until end 1925.
In 1927 he popped up at Reims with a T37, possibly on loan.
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| (Info supplied by André Reine) |
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1926: DNF Provence GP (heat) /
2 Marne GP (1500cc)
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Luis Enrique Brosutti Fantini (RA) |
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* 4 Nov 1903
† ? |
Santa Fe
? |
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1936: 3 Buenos Aires GP
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Adolf Brudes (D) |
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* 15 Oct 1899
† 5 Nov 1986 |
Kotulin, Schlesien (Silesia)
Bremen |
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Born in Kotulin, some 100 km SE of Breslau (then in Germany, nowadays in Poland).
He started racing NSU motorcycles at an age of 20 finishing second in his first race. Competed in hillclimbs with motorcycles and a Bugatti T35B.
Founded a workshop in Breslau in 1930. Finished third at the 1940 Mile Miglia with a BMW 328. Worked for Borgward after the war and took part in racing as well for Borgward.
Moved to Bremen where he died in 1986.
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1930: 2 Eifel (Voiturette)
1932: DNF AVUS (Voiturette)
1933: DNF AVUS (Voiturette) /
DNA Eifel (Voiturette)
1934: 8 AVUS (Voiturette) /
DNA Czech GP (Voiturette)
1936: DNA Eifel (Voiturette)
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Brune - SEE: Maillard-Brune
Désiré Charles Armand Brunet (F) |
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* 17 Jun 1895
† 11 Jun 1949 |
Combray, Calvados
Lisieux, Calvados |
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Charles Brunet mainly drove in the West of France from 1927 to 1934. He was seen at La Coupe Florio in 1927 (Talbot), then in a Sport
Bugatti in 1930 - 1931 - 1932, concentrating in hillclimb (Lisieux, La Valette, Harfleur, Torigni, Château Thierry, Bagneux) or sprint (Vernon).
Charles Brunet was in the entry list of the La Baule GP but was replaced by Matile.
In 1934 he bought a new Bugatti 55 and took part in the 24-Hours of Le Mans race with "Renaldi" (André Carré).
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| (Info supplied by Marc Ceulemans & André Reine) |
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1930: DNA Dieppe GP
1933: DNS (2000cc) La Baule GP
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Robert Eugène Brunet (F) |
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* 8 Mar 1903
† 31 Jan 1981 |
Bordeaux
Garches, Île-de-France |
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Two accidents during Brunet's boyhood had the consequence of two
trepanations of his skull. It is difficult to say if this fact had
influence on Brunet's personality, but it is certain that he looked
rather extravagant and sometimes a bit screwy. Women were the main
interest of Brunet's entire life; in this matter he could undoubtedly
put to effect his good looks. Of modest birth, Brunet married a young
and very rich noblewoman, the Countess of Choisel, in 1926. After some
sporadic starts in a Bugatti in the circuits held in fashionable resorts
at the beginning of the 1930s, he started racing seriously in 1933,
having purchased the ex-Wimille T51.
He raced among other for Ecuire Braillard replacing Louis Braillard.
Then he raced a Maserati 8CM until 1936 and switched to a Delahaye sports car for 1937, showing good
competence at the wheel of all these cars. During the war Brunet became
the owner of a factory which built accumulators for motorcars. He was
totally inept at business, but this factory just fell into his
hands. Business was so prosperous - thanks to contracts with the French
Army - that Brunet's factory had 400 employees by 1947. Still, women and
parties were his main concerns, so the firm, left by itself, folded
rapidly and declared bankruptcy in 1950. Meanwhile Brunet had given a
down payment for the 12th and last chassis of the Talbot Lago T26 Grand
Prix car and was expecting it for late 1948, but the car was not ready
for the last race at Monza. Brunet never took delivery owing to his
worsened financial situation, so this car was sporadically raced by the
works. Two further bankruptcies marred Brunet's professional life in
later years, but beautiful women were never missing from his side until
the last days of his life.
Brunet succumbed to cancer in 1982.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva & Jean-Charles Colombier) |
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1931: DNA Dieppe GP (Voiturette)
1933: DNF Pau GP /
DNF Tunis GP /
DNF Picardie GP /
DNA Nimes GP /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
10 Italian GP
1934: 9 Casablanca GP /
3 Picardie GP /
6 Penya Rhin GP /
DNF Marne GP /
DNF (heat) Vichy GP /
6 Albi GP /
9 Nice GP /
7 Comminges GP /
2 GP de l´U.M.F. /
DNF Spanish GP
1935: 5 Pau GP /
DNF Tunis GP /
DNF Picardie GP /
5 GP de l´U.M.F. /
DNA Lorraine GP /
7 Dieppe GP /
DNA Comminges GP /
DNF Nice GP
1936: DNF Pau GP
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Pietro Brunori (I) |
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From Rome. Amateur driver. Drove a Ceirano in 1925/27 and Maseratis in 1928 as he had bought no less than four Maseratis in the period 1928 up until early 1929, that were the 25% of
the output of the factory. He briefly teamed with Carlo Tonini, then founded an ephemeral Scuderia Brunori in early 1929 that was liquidated a few weeks after the announcement
and was never seen racing again. Brunori won the important sports car race at Caserta in 1928 in a Maserati.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1928: DNC Tripoli GP
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Jacques Paul Marie Joseph (du) Brusles De Rouvroy (F) |
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* 23 Jun 1907
† 21 Oct 1972 |
Calais, Pas-de-Calais
Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais |
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1939: 2 Frontières GP /
DNF (heat) Angouleme
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Konrad Bryde (N) |
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* 6 Nov 1912
† 19 Mar 1984 |
Bærum
? |
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Norwegian racing driver and top FIA administrator.
Took part in ice-, dirt track- and road racing in the 1930s. Won the 1932 Norgesløpet in an Studebaker but usually raced a Wanderer.
Took a class victory at the 1933 Monte Carlo Rally being 11th overall. Retired from the 1934 Monte Carlo Rally after someone had put sugar in the
fuel tank. Also took part in the 1952-53 Monte Carlo Rallies.
Bryde's organizational abilities were soon discovered and he became a member at the sports committee of the Royal Norwegian Automobile Club (KNA)
at an age of 22. After the war he became fully committed to KNA and FIA. He worked as member (and also vice president) of CSI in 1948-60 and remained
listed as deputy member into the 1970s. In 1981 he was appointed FIA "Vice-Président d'Honneur". Was also vice president of FIA traffic committee.
He became vice president for KNA in 1947 and worked as president in 1963-67. Honorable member in 1974. Became member of KNA sports commission in 1957 and
led it from 1962-80. Later President d'Honneur. Was one of the founders of "Nordisk Bilsportkomite" in 1949. Chairman for KNA delegates 1969-73. Also worked for several years
as chairman of the national motor sports court of appeal and was member of the international court of appeal.
Also worked on several race organizational committees.
Knight of the Grimaldi order (Monaco), NAF, NMK & KNA gold medals of honor.
Died in 1984. One of his pet projects, Rudskogen Motorsenter, Norway's first real race track became reality six years after his death.
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| (Info supplied by Anne Karine Bryde) |
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1935: 8 Norwegian GP (Ice race)
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Angelo Joseph Bucciali (F) |
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* 19 Dec 1887
† 2 Sep 1946 |
Arras
Rueil, Paris |
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Older brother of Paul-Albert Bucciali. The brothers created their own Buc racing cars and luxurious Bucciali road cars.
Committed suicide 1946.
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| (Info supplied by Simon Davis) |
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1928: DNS Algerian GP
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Paul-Albert Bucciali (F) |
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* 27 Feb 1889
† 1 Jul 1981 |
Arras
Paris |
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Younger brother of Angelo Bucciali. The brothers created their own Buc racing cars and luxurious Bucciali road cars.
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| (Info supplied by Simon Davis) |
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1927: DNA Provence GP
1928: DNF Algerian GP
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René François Philippe de Buck (B) |
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* 1885
† 8 May 1927 |
?
Chimay |
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Bugatti agency at Bruxelles, 51 Blvd. de Waterloo.
Bought one of the works Bugatti T35T that had raced at 1926 Targa Florio and raced it himself.
Fatal accident May 1927 testing an Imperia racing car at the Chimay circuit, Belgium.
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| (Info supplied by Michael Müller) |
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1926: DNF Spanish GP
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"lo Bue" - SEE: "Lo Bue"
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Marcel Buffy (F) |
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* 1903
† ? |
?
? |
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1935: DNF Orleans GP
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Ernst Günther Burggaller (D) |
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* 21 Mar 1896
† 2 Feb 1940
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Berlin
Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg |
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The stocky built Ernst Burggaller from Berlin was a quiet, confident and reliable but also fast driver.
He had been a fighter pilot and member of the famous von Richthofen's "Circus" during WW1.
After the war he started a driving school in Berlin. In 1922, Burggaller started racing motorcycles winning 24 times
in 3 1/2 years. In 1928 he started car racing with a Bugatti T37. The next year he changed to Emil Bremme's T35B
sports car, finishing second to Caracciola in the 1930 European Mountain Championship for Sports Cars.
From 1930 to 1932, he formed the German Bugatti Team with H.J. von Morgen and Price zu Leiningen.
With a T51 engine in a T35B chassis rebuilt to monoposto, Burggaller proved to be the top German driver of the 1933 season,
finishing second 3 times in the Voiturette class. He was offered an Auto Union contract for 1934 but refused as he did not
belive he was good enough. On a special arrangement he took part at the German GP when Prince zu Leiningen was ill.
After some further Voiturette racing he joined Luftwaffe again as a Major in 1938. Leading Jagdgruppe II / JG51 he was
doing target practicing on Bodensee, some 4 km east of Meersburg, on 2 Feb 1940, when his Messerschmitt 109E went too low, touched the water and
after that crashed into a retaining wall.
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| (Info supplied by Hans Etzrodt) |
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1930: DNF Monaco GP /
DNF (heat) Monza GP /
2 Czech GP
1931: DNF Monaco GP /
6 Alessandria GP /
DNF Eifel GP /
DNF German GP /
DNF AVUS GP
1932: DNA Eifel GP (Voiturette) /
DNA Lwow GP /
DNF German GP (Voiturette) /
? La Baule GP /
1 Czech GP (Voiturette)
1933: 2 AVUS (Voiturette) /
2 Eifel (Voiturette) /
DNA Frontières GP /
2 Lwow (Voiturette) /
DNA La Baule GP (Voiturette) /
1 Czech (Voiturette)
1934: 2 AVUS (Voiturette) /
3 Eifel (Voiturette) /
DNF* German GP /
3 Swiss GP (Voiturette) /
2 Czech GP (Voiturette)
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Edmond Prosper Burie (F) |
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* 8 Mar 1903
† 11 Nov 1970 |
Neuf Mesnil
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Bruxelles, Belgium |
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Born in Neuf Mesnil near the French-Belgian border 1903.
Listed as Emile Burie at the 1930 Belgian GP but obviously the same person.
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| (Info supplied by Jean-Charles Colombier) |
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1930: DNF European (Belgian) GP
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Carlo Felice Buzio (I) |
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* 2 Mar 1886
† 11 Mar 1977 |
Casale Monferrato
Varese |
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Engineer. At Diatto in 1906/1907. He raced for Diatto-Clément, Isotta Fraschini and Franco in the years 1906/1908 before devoting himself to aviation by designing engines. In 1910 he founded the Rebus
together with Enrico Restelli, a garage owner in Milan. An engine they built equipped the airplane that won the first sport aviation event held in Italy, in Brescia in 1910. Having abandoned Rebus
and wishing to take part in a Ministry of Defence tender, for which he needed the support of a mechanical industry, he persuaded F.lli Macchi of Varese to enter the newly-born aeronautical industry
by partnering with the French company Nieuport. Buzio became the driving force of the Macchi workshop during the war period, designing several airplanes and hydroplanes. In 1921 Buzio opened a car
dealership, Garage Buzio, selling Alfa Romeos in Via Orrigoni in Varese. After WWII the business was moved and transformed into a larger dealership of Innocenti scooters and cars, Mini Morris and BMW.
He was active in motor racing up until 1938.
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| (Info supplied by Alessandro Silva) |
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1925: 3 Garda Circuit (1100cc)
1926: DNF Alessandria GP (1100cc)
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