Nello Pagani

Nello Pagani

Nation:	Italy
Automobile world championship
First start:	Swiss Grand Prix 1950
Last start:	Swiss Grand Prix 1950
Constructors
1950 ( Maserati )
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Cirillo "Nello" Pagani (born October 11, 1911 in Milan , † October 19, 2003 in Bresso ( MI )) was an Italian motorcycle and automobile racer .

Career

During his extraordinarily long career, which lasted from 1928 to 1955, Pagani was known for his versatility. In addition to motorcycle road races, he competed in speedway, off-road and automobile races.

Pagani won the world championship title in the 125 cc class in the first season of the motorcycle world championship in 1949 .

His son Alberto Pagani was also a motorcycle racer and in 1972 was 500 cc vice world champion on MV Agusta behind Giacomo Agostini .

Motorcycle racing

Nello Pagani started his motorcycle career before the Second World War and was able to achieve many victories in both national and international races. For example, he won the Italian 250 cm³ championship in 1934, 1937 and 1938 and in 1939 the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring in the 250 cm³ class on Moto Guzzi .

In 1949 Pagani became the first 125 cm³ world champion in the history of the motorcycle world championship. When he won the Swiss Grand Prix , he also won the first ever 125 cc Grand Prix. Overall, Pagani won two of the three races held on FB-Mondial and at the end of the season had 27 points, almost twice as many points as the vice world champion, his compatriot Renato Magi . In the 500 cc class, he was runner-up behind the British Leslie Graham on Gilera . Although he was able to get more points than Graham in the course of the season, this won the world championship because only the three best results came into the world championship standings.

Until 1955 Nello Pagani competed on Mondial, Gilera and later on MV Agusta in the classes up to 125 cm³ and up to 500 cm³, but could not win a single race. After the end of his active career, he worked as a sports director at MV Agusta.

In 1967 Pagani returned to the saddle of a racing machine and won the Motogiro d'Italia on a 750 cc Norton .

Nello Pagani has contested a total of 22 motorcycle Grand Prix in his career, won four of them and made it onto the podium eleven times.

motor race

Nello Pagani also competed successfully in automobile races in his career. In 1947 and 1948 he won the Grand Prix de Pau .

On June 4, 1950, Pagani contested his only automobile world championship run at the Swiss Grand Prix . He finished on Maserati the Scuderia Achille Varzi of Achille Varzi seventh. At the Gran Premio di Modena in the same year he was fourth.

statistics

title

• 1934 - Italian 250cc champion on Miller Balsamo
• 1937 - 250 cc vice European champion on Moto Guzzi
• 1937 - Italian 250cc champion on Moto Guzzi
• 1938 - Italian 250cc champion on Moto Guzzi
• 1946 - Italian 500cc champion on Gilera
• 1949 - 125 cc world champion on FB Mondial
• 1949 - 500 cc vice world champion on Gilera
• 1951 - Italian 500cc champion on Gilera
• 4 motorcycle Grand Prix victories

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	Result	machine	Victories
1949	125 cc	World Champion	FB Mondial	2
	500 cc	2.	Gilera	2
1950	500 cc	4th	Gilera	0
1951	125 cc	-	FB Mondial	0
	500 cc	5.	Gilera	0
1952	500 cc	8th.	Gilera	0
1953	500 cc	15th	Gilera	0
1954	500 cc	-	MV Agusta	0
1955	500 cc	20th	MV Agusta	0

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1950	Scuderia Achille Varzi	Maserati 4CLT / 48	Maserati 1.5 L4s	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1950
				7th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953		Fiat 1100	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
				DNF
1954		Stanguellini S1100	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
					DNF

Web links

Commons : Nello Pagani  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Nello Pagani on the official website of the motorcycle world championship (English).
• Nello Pagani on the Isle of Man TT official website.
• Article about Nello Pagani at lanotizia.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mick Walker: Giacomo Agostini - Champion of Champions . Ed .: The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited. Scotprint, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland 2004, ISBN 1-85983-400-0 , pp. 108 .