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Even with lots of work still do be done this list have reached a state
where it must be considered one of the most complete and accurate ever assembled on
the subject. This has only been possible due to the tremendous help from people
all over the world, each of them experts of their local drivers and events.
Short biographies of drivers with BLUE background, will come up in due time.
If you have any information about any driver with GREEN background, please
contact me!
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Sandro Fabbri (I) |
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Raced a T26 Maserati in the 1933 Mille Miglia.
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1933: DNA Bordino GP
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Bernardo Carlo Alberto Fabbricotti (I) |
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* 1 Dec 1900
† ? 1979
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Carrara
Monte Carrara |
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Raced in 1926-1927.
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1926: DNF Alessandria GP (1100cc)
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Luigi Fagioli (I) |
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* 9 Jun 1898
† 20 Jun 1952
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Osimo, Ancona
Monte Carlo |
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Fagioli's family had a substantial interest in a pasta-making factory in Osimo near Ancona (Marche region). This allowed him to run
the typical life of a well-to-do bourgeois of bygone provincial Italy: shooting, hunting birds and boars and racing cars.
He went to a high school which gave him a low-rank accountant degree.
The hot tempered, cocky Fagioli was a fast driver whose aggressive style on and off the track was probably more appriciated by the
spectators than by teammanagers and competitiors.
Fagioli took up racing as a hobby in 1926 with a 1.1L Salmson but the breakthrough came in 1930 when
he signed on as works driver for Maserati. He won the minor Coppa Principe de Piemonte and then the Coppa Ciano and followed it up with a
victory at the Coppa Castelle Romani. Next year he was 2nd at Monaco and Tunis and won the Monza GP. In 1932 he won the Rome GP and was 2nd at
the Italian, Czech and Monza GPs. In 1933 Fagioli raced for Scuderia Ferrari and scored a series of fine results: 1st Coppa Acerbo, 1st Comminges GP,
2nd Marseille, 1 Italian GP, 2nd Czech GP and 2nd Spanish GP. For 1934 Fagioli signed on for Mercedes-Benz and remained there for three colorful
years, often having clashes with Neubauer and Caracciola regarding team orders and equal treatment. He had 3 victories both in 1934 and 1935
but 1936 proved to be a catastrophe. The car was problematic and Fagioli suffered from rheumatism. He signed on for Auto Union for 1937.
The bad feelings against Caracciola surfaced at the 1937 Tripoli GP where after the race, at least according to Neubauer, Fagioli attacked
Caracciola with a wheel hammer. The rheumatism got worse and Fagioli was a non starter in several races,
he used to wear a large girdle on top of his overalls.
Finally he was forced to walk with a aid of a stick and retired from racing. Fagoli made a comeback in 1950 joining Fangio and Farina as on of the three "F"s in the victorious Alfa Romeo
team. he took 4 second places in the World Championship races that year. In 1951 he won the French GP together with Fangio becoming the oldest
F1 winner ever. All together he did 7 championship starts and collected 32 points. In 1952 he took 3rd place at the Mille Miglia in a Lancia Aurela
beating the 300SL of arch rival Caracciola. During practice for the Monaco sports car race Fagioli crashed his Lancia in the tunnel braking an arm
and a leg. First it seemed he would be ok but three weeks after the accident things got worse and Fagioli died at a Monaco hospital.
The nickname "Abbruzzi robber" remains a bit of mystery.
The sentence has very little meaning in Italian and Fagioli had nothing to do with the Abruzzi region. Just as with
Bonetto the nickname is impossible to find in contemporary Italian sources but it possibly has to do with Nuvolari being "robbed"
of a victory back in 1933.
Click here for more.
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1925: 3 Coppa Perugina (1100cc) /
2 Coppa Acerbo (1100cc)
1926: DNA Savio Circuit (1100cc /
DNF Coppa Perugina (1500cc) /
2 Coppa del Marchese Ginori (1100cc) /
6 Coppa Acerbo (1100cc) /
2 Coppa Montenero (1100cc)
1927: 2 Targa Florio (1100cc) /
5c/10 Savio Circuit (1500cc) /
2 Coppa Perugina (1100cc) /
2c/8 Bologna Circuit (1100cc) /
2 Coppa Acerbo (1100cc)
1928: DNF Tripoli GP (1100cc) /
7 Pozzo Circuit /
7 Targa Florio /
6 Mugello Circuit /
5 Rome GP /
DNF Cremona Circuit /
7 Coppa Acerbo /
DNA Coppa Montenero
1929: 2 Tripoli GP (1100cc) /
10 Alessandria GP /
DNF Targa Florio (1100cc) /
DNF Rome GP (2000cc) /
DNS/1 Pozzo Circuit (1100cc) /
DNF Mugello Circuit (1100cc) /
DNA Coppa Ciano
1930: 5 (heat) Tripoli (Voiturette) /
DNF Alessandria GP /
DNA Targa Florio /
DNF Rome GP /
1 Coppa Ciano /
DQU Coppa Acerbo /
5 Monza GP
1931: 2 Tunis GP /
2 Monaco GP /
7*/DNF Alessandria GP /
DNF Targa Florio /
6 Rome GP /
DNF* French GP /
DNF German GP /
3 Coppa Ciano /
5 Coppa Acerbo /
1 Monza GP /
DNF/DNF* Czech GP
1932: DNF Tunis GP /
3 Monaco GP /
1 Rome GP /
DNF Targa Florio /
DNF AVUS GP /
2* Italian GP /
3 Circuito di Avellino (sports car) /
5* Coppa Acerbo /
1 Circuito di Senigallia (sports car) /
2 Czech GP /
2 Monza GP /
6 Marseille GP /
2 Circuito di Bolsena (sports car)
1933: DNF Tunis GP /
DNF Monaco GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNA AVUS GP /
DNA Eifel GP /
DNA French GP /
4 Nice GP /
1 Coppa Acerbo /
1 Comminges GP /
2 Marseille GP /
1 Italian GP /
2 Czech GP /
2 Spanish GP
1934: DNS AVUS GP /
DNF Eifel GP /
DNF French GP /
2 German GP /
DNS Belgian GP /
1 Coppa Acerbo /
6 Swiss GP /
1* Italian GP /
1 Spanish GP /
2 Czech GP
1935: 1 Monaco GP /
3 Tripoli GP /
1 AVUS GP /
4 Eifel GP /
4 French GP /
1 Penya Rhin GP /
2* Belgian GP /
6 German GP /
2 Swiss GP /
DNF/DNF* Italian GP /
2 Spanish GP /
DNA Czech GP
1936: DNF Monaco GP /
3 Tripoli GP /
DNS Eifel GP /
5* German GP /
DNA Coppa Ciano /
DNF/4* Swiss GP
1937: 5 Tripoli GP /
DNF AVUS GP /
DNS Eifel GP /
DNA Belgian GP /
DNS German GP /
4 Coppa Acerbo /
7* Swiss GP
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Nils Falkenberg (S) |
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* 15 Aug 1914
† 20 Nov 1944 |
Stockholm
Stockholm |
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1936: DNA Swedish GP
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Maurice Fitzgerald Laing Falkner (GB) |
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* 10 Mar 1911
† 2 Dec 1966 |
Knutsford, Cheshire 1911
Walsall, Staffordshire |
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Name often incorrectly spelled "Faulkner".
Died in a road accident at Walsall 1966.
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1936: DNC* JCC 200 (Voiturette) /
11* Donington GP
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Anthony Alfred Fane Peers Agabeg "AFP Fane" (GB) |
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* 8 Nov 1910
† 18 Jul 1942 |
Sijua, Jharkhand, India
Duxford, Cambridgeshire |
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Born in India. His family surname was Agabeg, he changed it later to Fane.
Joined RAFVR at the outbreak of the war. 1942 as an Flight Lieutenant attached to No.1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit flying a Spitfire back from a mission
to photograph the U-Boat yards at Flensburg in Germany he fatally crashed near Duxford.
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1932: DNF German GP (Voiturette)
1934: DNF Mountain
1937: DNA Mountain
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"Fani" (Hans Holm Adolf Theobald Kaspar von Wedelstaedt?) (D) |
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* 24 Dec 1903
† 17 Feb 1971
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Charlottenburg, Berlin
Bad Wiessee |
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We are not 100% sure of the identification of the pseudonym "Fani", but he was possibly Hans von Wedelstaedt, son of an army officer, who studied law at the
Rostock university in 1924, owned property in Silesia and during WW2 was a member of a Panzer tank division. He married Ilse Pioletti in
Berlin on 2nd May 1935 and they had two sons in 1936 and 1938.
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1932: DNF AVUS (Voiturette)
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Dr. Giuseppe "Nino" Farina (I) |
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* 30 Oct 1906
† 30 Jun 1966
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Torino (Turin)
Aiguebelle, Savoie, France |
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Son of the oldest of the brothers who founded the "Pininfarina" coachbuilding company.
He became doctor of political science (some sources say engineering) and he also excelled in sports like
riding, skiing, athletics, football and cycling.
He started off with an old Alfa Romeo but crashed hard in his first race. He then cut short a career as cavalry
officer in order to concentrate on motor racing and in 1933 he made a comeback, racing Maseratis and Alfas
for Gino Rovere as a privateer before joining Scuderia Ferrari for the 1936 season.
With Nuvolari as tutor Farina's career soon took on speed, his greatest achievement being a victory at the Naples
GP in 1937. When Alfa Corse returned to racing in 1938 Farina became their head driver. Farina became Italian
Champion in 1937, 1938 and 1939. After the war he rejoined Alfa Romeo but left the team after the 1946 season
because of a disagreement over team leadership. He raced private Maseratis and works Ferraris in 1948-49
and then returned to Alfa once more to become the first Formula 1 world champion in 1950. In 1952-55 he raced Ferraris
before retiring from GP racing. He made plans to race at Indy 500 in 1956 & 1957 but they came to nothing.
After that Farina worked as an agent for Jaguar and Alfa Romeo and also became involved with Pininfarina.
But on his way to the 1966 French GP he lost control of his Lotus-Cortina near Aiguebelle in the Savoy Alps, crashing fatally against
a telegraph pole. Farina's racing style with extended arms and the head held back became a norm for the post war generation
of GP drivers as the ultimate smoothness and precision, but Farina actually was a driver who crashed quite often. At his peak
howewer he was a fast and stylish driver and that he is less known than some other World Champions has much to do with the
fact that Farina hated any kind of publicity.
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1934: DNA Bordino GP /
6 (heat) Vichy GP /
6 Coppa Ciano /
3 Biella GP (1 Voiturette) /
1 Czech GP (Voiturette) /
2 Modena GP (Voiturette 1100cc) /
4 Napels GP
1935: DNF Monaco GP /
5 Tunis GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
2 Bergamo GP /
5 (heat) AVUS GP /
3 Biella GP /
DNA Eifel GP /
4 Turin GP /
5 Dieppe GP /
8* Dieppe (Voiturette) /
DNA Comminges GP /
DNF Nice GP /
8 Swiss GP /
DNS Italian GP /
DNF Modena GP /
DNA Czech GP /
DNF Donington GP
1936: DNA Pau GP /
DNF/5* Monaco GP /
DNA Tripoli GP /
DNA Tunis GP /
3 Penya Rhin GP /
4 Eifel GP /
3 Milan GP /
DNF Deauville GP /
DNF Coppa Acerbo /
DNF Swiss GP /
DNF Italian GP /
3 Modena GP /
DNF Vanderbilt Cup
1937: 2 Turin GP /
1 Napels GP /
9 Tripoli GP /
DNA AVUS GP /
DNF Eifel GP /
2 Milan GP /
5* Vanderbilt Cup /
DNF German GP /
6 Monaco GP /
DNF* Coppa Acerbo /
DNF Swiss GP /
DNF/7* Italian GP
1938: DNA? Pau GP /
DNA Cork GP /
DNF Tripoli GP /
DNF German GP /
2 Coppa Ciano /
2 Coppa Acerbo /
5 Swiss GP /
2 Italian GP
1939: DNF Tripoli (Voiturette) /
1 Antwerp GP (sports car) /
DNF Belgian GP /
1 Coppa Ciano (Voiturette) /
3 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette) /
1 Swiss GP (Voiturette)
1940: 1 Tripoli (Voiturette)
1950: FORMULA 1 WORLD CHAMPION
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Salvatore Fasone (I) |
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From Messina.
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1926: DNF Coppa Vinci
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de Faucamberge - SEE: Couiteas
Faulkner - SEE: Falkner
Maurice Faure (F) |
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* 15Jan 1896
† 17 Dec 1965 |
Paris
Bertrichamps in Meurthe-et-Moselle |
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1932: DNF Comminges (Voiturette)
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Giovanni Federico (I) |
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From Palermo. Raced in Sicily from 1927 to 1929.
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1925: DNF Coppa Etna (>3000cc)
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Robert Felten (D) |
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A Mannesmann works driver, he won the 1926 Eifelrundfahrt overall with his 1500cc Mannesmann sports car.
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1926: DNS Eifel GP (1500cc)
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Antonio Ferrando ( ) |
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Not in the official list of licensed Italian racing drivers
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1931: DNA Coppa Ciano (1100cc)
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Albino Ferrara (I) |
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* 1909
† 25 May 1937 |
Caltanissetta, Sicily
Velletri, Rome |
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Sicilian motorcycle racer. He died 1937 in a road accident at Velletri. He was driving the Sport Balilla, which he had just raced in the
Targa Florio and was going back to his home at that time in Milano.
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1935: 11 Targa Florio
(1st Targa Florio Voiturette 1100cc) /
4 Coppa Ciano (1100c)
1937: DNA Targa Florio (Voiturette) /
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Pietro Ferraro (I) |
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From Venezia.
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1935: DNA Cosenza GP
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Ferreira - SEE: Ribeiro Ferreira
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Max Georg Fiedler (D) |
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Was involved in the Bolle & Fiedler Motorenfabrik. Berlin-Charlottenburg 1923-26.
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1926: DNF German GP (1500cc)
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George Field (GB) |
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Born in Southport,Lancashire?
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1936: 8* Donington GP
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John Frederic "Jack" Field (GB) |
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* 27 Aug 1904
† 31 May 1996 |
Wyke, Bradford Yorkshire
Shrivenham, Berkshire |
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Started racing in 1928.
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1932: DNA Empire Trophy (2000cc)
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Alberto Filippi Gabardi (I) |
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* ?
† 24 May 1941 |
Carpi, Modena
16 km off the coast of Sicily |
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Lived in Reggio Emilia. Purchased Belmondo's 1934/35 ex-Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Monza in 1936 but apparently never
raced it. He was one of 1300 soldiers who died when Italian troop ship SS Conte Rosso on its way to Tripoli was
torpedoed by British submarine HMS Upholder off the coast of Sicily.
(He is not to be confused with Alessandro Gaboardi, an Alfa Romeo mechanic, who took part in 1947 Italian GP)
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1937: 6 Turin GP (Voiturette)
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Luigi Filippone (I) |
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From Napoli (Naples).
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1935: DNA Cosenza GP
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"Fiorello" - SEE: Giuseppe Cortese
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Adolfo Fiume (I) |
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* 23 May 1889
† 8 Feb 1934 |
Syracuse
Brescia |
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Doctor in natural and industrial sciences, he was an aviator and captain of the Savoia Cavalleria. He moved from Rome to Brescia in 1925 and was very active in public life. Used the
pseudonym "Aerfero Capo" from 1928.
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1925: DNA Garda Circuit (1500cc)
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Richard William Cumberland Le Fleming (GB) |
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* 21 Jul 1901
† 19 Jan 1985 |
Rydal, Westmorland
Marylebone, London |
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Owned an Alfa Romeo "Monza".
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1937: DNF* Campbell Trophy
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Charles Flohot (F) |
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* 10 Jul 1888
† 30 Mar 1927 |
Clichy-la-Garenne, Haut-de-Seine
Paris |
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1925: DNF Provence GP
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Maurice Folville (B) |
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Belgian engineer, was the first husband of German lady-driver Ines Keil-Folville. In the Taunus-Rennen domicile is listed as Frankfurt/Main
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1925: DNF Taunus GP (2000cc)
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Petrus Antonin Fontaine (F) |
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* 8 Jun 1900
† 23 Jan 1979 |
Villeurbanne, Rhône
Saint-Laurent-d'Agny, Rhône |
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1929: 4 Marne GP (1100cc)
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Eugenio Fontana (I) |
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* 20 May 1908
† 23 Jun 1991. |
Lucca
Lucca |
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Amateur driver, he raced fast sports cars until the 1950s, mainly in races held in his native Tuscany. He owned an
important manufacture of olive oil and derived products.
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1930: 5 Coppa Ciano
1931: DSQ Coppa Ciano
1932: DNF Coppa Ciano
1933: 8 Coppa Ciano
1935: DNF Lucca GP
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Bruno Achille Fontanini (I) |
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* 22 May 1901
† 17 Dec 1958 |
Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Verona |
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Fontanini won three early editions of the classic Bolzano-Mendola hillclimb, in 1930, 1932 and 1933, driving different Alfa Romeos.
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1930: 7 Coppa Acerbo
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Luis Goncalves Fontès (BR/GB) |
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* 26 Dec 1912
† 12 Oct 1940 |
Hampstead, London
Llysworney, Glamorgan,Wales |
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Luis Fontès' father was a Brazilian shipping tycoon and and his mother British.
In 1933 he inherited his father's considerable fortune. A Jekyll - Hyde type of character with such an appearence that many people could not
imagine him as a race driver. Behind the wheel the heavely bespectacled youngster turned into an incredibly competitive
driver. His after race parties also became infamous (as when he was balancing on the window ledge four stories up with a
girl on his shouders!). He hired an ex-Lewis Alfa Romeo Monza for the 1935 International Trophy
as his MG had an engine failure and sensationally went on to win the race. Later he bought the Alfa and entered it in a few events.
His greatest moment was his 1935 Le Mans victory in a Lagonda with Hawker test pilot John Hindmarsh.
But then was involved in a fatal road accident under the influence of alcohol and was tried, convicted and sent to jail for three years for manslaughter.
At the war Fontes joined the RAF, flying for the Air Transport Auxiliary, and flying a Wellington bomber he was killed in an airplane crash in
Llysworney, Glamorgan 1940.
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1935: 1 JCC International Trophy (Handicap) /
3 Mannin Moar /
1 Le Mans 24 H (sports car) /
1 Limerick race /
DNA Donington GP
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John Ludovic Ford (GB) |
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* 20 Dec 1906
† 20 Jan 1957 |
Edinburgh, Scotland
Southfield, Falmouth, Jamaica |
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Scottish driver. In 1933 he drove with Maurice Baumer an MG C
type (CO291) at Le Mans. This was the first MG ever to
finish at Le Mans, finishing 6th overall and winning its class.
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1933: DNC Mannin Beg (Voiturette)
1934: DNF (heat) Dieppe GP
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Eric Forrest-Greene (RA/GB) |
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* 9 Oct 1903
† 25 Jan 1954 |
Rosario, Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Forest-Green was born in Argentina in a British family.
He went to school in England where he raced a Bentley. Later he returned to
Argentine where he became the importer of Rolls Royce, Bentley and Jowett and raced
sporadically until the war winning the 1928 Rafaela 500 miles race.
His Buenos Aires garage housed the cars of the British drivers that came to Argentina
for the early post WWII Temporadas. He used to entertain the foreign drivers
that invariantly acknowledged his and his wife Dora's hospitality.
In 1952 he acted as go-between BRM and Fangio, being able to make Gonzalez
part of the package. Cooper team manager for the 1953 Argentinian GP, he wanted
to resume racing and was able to drive an Aston-Martin in the 1954 Buenos Aires
1000 kms sports car race. Sadly his car burst in flames after leaving
the road early in the race; nobody helped him to extinguish the fire
from his clothes and he did not survive the burns and died 24 hours later.
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1941: 6 Buenos Aires GP
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Theodor Fork (D) |
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Listed as from Berlin. Contrary to what has been speculated earlier it has now been proved that Theodor Fork was NOT a pseudonym of German parlament member,
SS-Gruppenführer Philipp Bouhler, Hitler's chief of chancellery of NSDAP.
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1934: 5 AVUS (Voiturette) /
DNS Eifel (Voiturette)
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Raffaello Fortuna (I) |
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Bugatti driver from Lucca, with some sporadic entries. Raced in 1930 only.
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1931: DNA Coppa Ciano
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Thomas Scrymsoure Steuart "Tim" Fothringham (GB) |
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* 5 Apr 1907
† 9 Sep 1979 |
Edinburgh Scotland
Edzell, Angus, Scotland |
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1932: DNA Empire Trophy (2000cc)
1933: DNF Mannin Moar
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Jacques Paul Marie Fouchet (F) |
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* 23 Jan 1901
† 18 Nov 1986 |
Berlin, Germany
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1925: DNF San Sebastian GP
1926: DNF GP du Salon
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Pierre / Marcel Foucret (F) |
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* 25 Nov 1904
† 22 Dec 1975. |
Paris
Paris |
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To be sorted out!
Pierre and Marcel are different drivers.
Pierre: Paris 1904 - Champagney 1964, Marcel: Paris 1904-1975.
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1932: DNF Marseille GP
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Jean-Gilbert Foury (F) |
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* 14 Nov 1907
† 12 Jul 1978 |
Paris
Baincthun, Pas-de-Calais |
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Sports car driver. Race at the 1935 Le Mans 24h with a Bugatti. Traveled 1937 to Brazil with the Bugatti to race in the Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix.
Took part in the French restistance during the war under the pseudonym "Edwin".
Raced at Le Mans 24h 1956 and 1957.
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1936: 2 Frontières GP
1937: DNF Rio de Janeiro
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Franceschi - SEE: De Franceschi
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Arnaldo Franchetti (I) |
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* 1906
† 7 Mar 1993 |
Lucca
Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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Son of the opera composer Alberto, Arnaldo was a Physics graduate. Baron Arnaldo Franchetti studied music late, already in his thirties, proving to be a gifted musician,
composer of serious music and a music professor in American Universities for thirty years. Franchetti had purchased one of the first T26 Maseratis. He did not finish the
Coppa Perugina on May 29th, 1927, and was second and third in class respectively at the Rimini Flying km and at the Coppa della Collina Pistoiese. He let the newcomer
Carlo Pintacuda, entered as his relief , drive in his stead at the Montenero race. Franchetti did not take the wheel as claimed by most sources and quit racing
afterwards.
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1927: DNF Coppa Perugina (1500cc) /
DNA Rome GP /
DNF Coppa Montenero (1500cc)
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Emil Frankl (A) |
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* ?
† 3 Jun 1934 |
?
Adenau |
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Emil was the younger brother of Oskar Frankl, an engineer who during the sixties managed a Peugeot dealership in Vienna,
Oscar had raced motorcycles in the mid twenties before he started racing touring cars in 1928 with a 750 cc BMW Dixi.
He was not seen racing after Emil's death.
The younger brother, Emil, first appeared at the 1927 Semmering with a touring Bugatti.
He was then seen again in 1929 and early 1930 with an old former works Steyr 5.0-liter racer,
which he entered at mountain climbs. During 1931 he acquired a 1.5-liter Bugatti T37A and the following year
he raced a 2.3-liter T35B. He entered the T35B at the Brooklands 500-Mile Race but retired.
The 1934 Eifelrennen was his first race that year and also his last.
After presumed contact with another car immediately after the start the Bugatti left the road at more than 100 mph.
The unfortunate driver was ejected through the air and landed on the concrete with a cracked skull.
Emil succumbed to his injures after he was brought to the Adenau hospital.
After his death the Bugatti T35B was acquired by Adolf Brudes in Breslau.
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1930: DNA Monaco GP /
DNA Rome GP
1931: DNF Marne GP (Voiturette) /
DNF La Baule GP /
DNA Czech GP
1933: DNF Spanish GP
1934: DNF Eifel GP
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Archibald Goodwin "Archie" Frazer-Nash (GB) |
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* 30 Jun 1889
† 10 Mar 1965 |
Hyderabad, Sind Province, India
Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey |
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1927: DNF Boulogne GP /
DNF JCC 200
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Etienne Eugène Henri Frètet (F) |
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* 4 Jun 1897
† 4 Mar 1980 |
Hovecourt, Vosges
Creil, Oise |
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Henri Frètet was a French sports car driver with Delage and Delahaye. He was a Delage mechanic in the
Twenties and acted as Divo's riding mechanic in the 1924 GP de l'ACF in a Delage. In the thirties Fretet became
"chief tester" for Delage. In 1931 Fretet teamed up with Robert Sénéchal in his own Delage for the European Championship.
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1931: DNC* Italian GP /
5* French GP
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Ernest Jules Friderich (F) |
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* 23 Oct 1886
† 22 Jan 1954 |
Paris
Nice |
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Better known under his French name Ernest Friderich. From Alsace (Elsass) but born in Paris. Bugatti’s earliest and closest collaborators. After 2 years of
military service he followed Bugatti to Molsheim, then in Germany. Before the war started he returned to France to join the 8th Artillery. He remained Bugatti
works driver from 1911 to 1924. After that he opened a Bugatti agency at Nice, 21 Rue de Rivoli, with heavy support of Le Patron, which rapidly grew to
second-largest Bugatti dealer behind Bugatti’s own affiliate at Paris. Besides sales and showroom Friderich had a large workshop capable to service and
overhaul also race cars on a level similar to the factory itself. Friderich continued racing for fun at smaller events in his area. He also sponsored young
and talented drivers with cars from his inventory, e.g. René Dreyfus.
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1924: 8 European GP
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Edith Frisch (D) |
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* ?
† 17 Aug 1934 |
Berlin
Vöhrenbach, Baden-Wuttenberg |
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Fatal accident in the Schwarzwald Höhenfahrt reability run. Her 2-litre Opel overturned at a level railway crossing and she was trapped under the wreck.
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1933: 6? Eifel (Voiturette) /
DNF Czech (Voiturette)
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Edgardo Mario "Edgar" Fronteras (I/GB/USA) |
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* 20 Feb 1899
† 23 Aug 1960 |
Napoli (Naples)
Evanston, Illinois, USA |
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Edgar Fronteras was a very colorful character. He had been wounded and decorated as a Captain during WWI. Fronteras appeared in British as a self-styled friend of the Maserati brothers
and claiming to have raced in Italy before moving to England, something of which there is no evidence. He started a brokerage firm for Italian imports, from Maserati cars to Isotta-Fraschini engines.
Several British Vosper and Thornycroft motor torpedo boats built at that time were supplied with two or three Isotta Fraschini ASSO engines. At that time
Fronteras was also the managing director of the Caproni Agency with offices in Piccadilly. His masterpiece was the set up for two visits of the acquisition committee of the R.A.F. to the Caproni
factory near Milan at the beginning and at the end of 1939 with resulted in an order of 100 Caproni light reconnaissance bombers to R.A.F.. The order was later enlarged and then ceased when Italy entered the war.
In the 1950s Fronteras was in USA as the importer of Italian sports cars such as OSCA. He raced at Sebring and in the SCCA races of that period.
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1932: DNA Monza GP
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Bernhard Frye (D) |
Merchant from Düsseldorf.
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1932: DNA Eifel GP
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Joseph (later: Giuseppe) Furmanik (I) |
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* 13 Mar 1903
† 5 May 1959 |
Horgen, Switzerland
Milano (Milan) |
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Joseph Furmanik was of Polish descent and was born in Switzerland. His father was a works manager in a carpentry. His mother died 1910. Living in Colombier-Fontaine in France near the Swiss border,
on 1st August, 1914, 11 year old Joseph played "war" with his schoolmates. One team shouted "Vive la France!" and the other "Vive l’Allemagne !"
Later at home he hear someone shout "Vive la France!". Beliving it is his mates he answers "Vive l’Allemagne!" In the next second French soldiers entered the house and arrested Joseph and his father, sending them to prison.
Later they were interned to Corsica. Joseph was released in 1916 and sent to Vienna. After the war he managed by chance to find his father and they emigrated to Italy, Joseph changing his name to Giuseppe.
In Naples he married a wealthy Italian girl. He trained as an engineer and was co-designer of a parachute called the Salvator. In the early 1930s he
had been an occasional racing driver, although he was better known for his speed record-setting activities using various Maseratis,
his exploits presumably financed from patent royalties on his parachute designs. Acquainted with Il Duce since the mid-1920s and already the recipient of three gold medals for
his efforts, in 1937 Furmanik succeeded Count Vicenzo Florio as president of the RACI's Commissione Sportiva Automobilistica Italiana, so he now represented the RACI at AIACR meetings
as their delegate on the CSI: although the RACI still nominally controlled the Italian racing calendar via the CSAI the real power now lay with Furmanik, who had a foot in both camps.
Alongside Count Bonacossa, who ran motorcycle racing in Italy, he was therefore pretty much the Italian equivalent of Adolf Hühnlein.
The CSAI was re-formed (and reformed) in 1945 under Count Brivio and a number of other pre-war drivers who were - to a greater or lesser extent -
untainted by association with the Fascisti. Furmanik was - understandably - not involved.
In early 1945 Corriere dello Sport reported that Furmanik had donated a "substantial" amount of money to Corriere dello Sport's fund to reconstruct and rehabilitate Italian sport.
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1932: 3 Rome GP (Cyclecar)
1933: DNF (heat) Bordino GP /
3 Coppa Ciano (Voiturette 1100cc) /
3 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette 1100cc)
1934: DNF Coppa Ciano (Voiturette 1100cc) /
4 Coppa Acerbo (Voiturette 1100cc)
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