Angelo Pallavicini

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Angelo Pallavicini (born July 29, 1948 in Dietikon ) is an entrepreneur and former Swiss racing driver.

Career

Angelo Pallavicini started his racing career in touring car motorsport in 1972. He gained his first motorsport experience in individual races and in the European Touring Car Championship in which he competed in a few races with a BMW 2002 and later a BMW 3.0 CSL until 1974 . In 1975 he drove a Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.0 in the European championship for GT vehicles and in the 2nd division of the German Automobile Round Trip Cup (DARM). A year later he started with a Porsche 934in the GT European Championship. In the 1976 season he achieved his best result in this racing series with 5th place. That year, Pallavicini celebrated his first overall victory in an individual race in a Porsche 934 at Hockenheim. After the end of the European GT Championship, he competed in various races in the German Automobile Circuit Cup and the European Touring Car Championship in 1977, in which he raced a Porsche 934 and a BMW 2002. In 1981 he drove a BMW 320i on the Salzburgring and in Brno his last Grand Prix races in the European Touring Car Championship. He was able to repeat his victory at Hockenheim in two further GT individual races in 1977 and 1981.

From 1972 to 1981 he drove in the German Racing Championship (DRM). Until 1974 he competed there with a BMW 2002 in the 2nd division. After an interruption in 1975, he switched to a Porsche 934 in 1976, with which he took part in a few races, mostly in Hockenheim, until 1980, and achieved a few placings among the top ten drivers. In 1981 he drove his last DRM race in Hockenheim with a BMW 320i Turbo in the 2nd division, which he finished in sixth place.

Pallavicini contested his first endurance race in the sports car world championship in 1977 together with Claude Haldi in the 6-hour race at Brands Hatch. There they both drove their Porsche 934 in 6th place and the GT class win. In the following year he was able to continue his racing successes together with his driver colleagues such as Marco Vanoli , Enzo Calderari , Peter Bernhard and Edi Kofel and celebrate victory in the GT class in the 6-hour races in Dijon, Misano and Vallelunga. In 1979 he won another GT class victory with Marco Vanoli in a Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.0 at the 6-hour race in Mugello. In addition, he started with Enzo Calderari and Marco Vanoli in the 24-hour race of Daytona in a Porsche 934 in the GTO class and achieved 10th place overall. This result was also his best placement in Daytona. In the following two years, he and Herbert Müller and Edgar Dören achieved three more victories in the brand world championship races at Brands Hatch, at the Nürburgring and in Pergusa in the GT class. In 1982 Pallavicini switched to a Porsche 935 with which he drove two sports car world championship races in Group 5 without success. In 1984 he started together with Vittorio Coggiola (“Victor”) , Gianni Giudici and Bruno Rebai in a Porsche 935 in the GTX class and won the class victory in the 1000 km races at Brands Hatch, Spa-Francorchamps and Imola. In 1986 he switched to a URD C83 and drove with Jens Winther in his last brand world championship 1000 km races at the Nürburgring and in Spa-Francorchamps in Group C in 9th and 17th place.

In the following two years he drove an Alba AR2 and Tiga GT285 in the Daytona 24-hour race and the Sebring 12-hour race in Group C Lights of the IMSA racing series. In these two IMSA races, he had already participated irregularly since 1981, initially with a Porsche racing car and in 1984 with a BMW M1 . In 1988, in his last race at Sebring, he drove his Tiga GT285 to 13th place. Then he ended his racing career.

His greatest motorsport success was in 1979, together with his driver colleagues Herbert Müller and Marco Vanoli, fourth overall and victory in the GT + 3.0 class at the Le Mans 24-hour race . Overall, he competed four times in Le Mans from 1977 to 1985, of which he was only able to finish the race in 1979.

Today Pallavicini runs a car dealership in Dietikon.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1977 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Schiller Racing Porsche 934 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Claude Haldi SwitzerlandSwitzerland Florian Vetsch failure Engine failure
1979 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Lubrifilm Racing Team Porsche 934 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Herbert Mueller SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marco Vanoli 4th place and class win
1983 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Angelo Pallavicini BMW M1 GermanyGermany Leopold Prince of Bavaria DenmarkDenmark Jens Winther failure circuit
1985 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Angelo Pallavicini BMW M1 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Enzo Calderari SwitzerlandSwitzerland Marco Vanoli failure Engine failure

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1981 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Angelo Pallavicini Porsche 934 AustraliaAustralia Neil Crang United StatesUnited States Dan Simpson failure malfunction
1982 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Angelo Pallavicini Porsche 935 AustraliaAustralia Neil Crang United KingdomUnited Kingdom John Sheldon failure malfunction
1984 CanadaCanada Bieri Racing BMW M1 CanadaCanada Uli Bieri CanadaCanada Matt Gysler Rank 30
1987 CanadaCanada Bieri Racing Alba AR2 CanadaCanada Uli Bieri United StatesUnited States David Murry failure Engine failure
1988 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Gaston Andrey Racing Tiga GT286 CanadaCanada Uli Bieri ItalyItaly Paolo Guatamacchi ItalyItaly Martino Finotto Rank 13

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Touringracing.net - Internet site: European championship race results for GT vehicles 1976. On: touringcarracing.net , accessed on November 25, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Teamdan - website: race results and overall placements of the DRM 1976. (No longer available online.) On: www.teamdan.com , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved November 30, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Teamdan - website: race results and overall placements of the DRM 1977. (No longer available online.) On: www.teamdan.com , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved November 30, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Teamdan - website: race results and overall placements of the DRM 1980. (No longer available online.) On: www.teamdan.com , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 30, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Teamdan - website: race results and overall placements of the DRM 1981. (No longer available online.) On: www.teamdan.com , archived from the original on March 15, 2012 ; Retrieved November 30, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the Sports Car World Championship 1977. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Racing results from the 1978 World Sports Car Championship. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the Sports Car World Championship 1979. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the sports car world championship 1980. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Racing results of the sports car world championship 1981. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Racing results of the sports car world championship 1984. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  12. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Racing results from the 1986 World Sports Car Championship. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  13. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: IMSA 1984 race results. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  14. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: IMSA 1988 race results. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
  15. ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Le Mans race results 1979. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 30, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Pallavicini, Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dietikon