Chico Landi

Chico Landi

Nation:	Brazil
Automobile world championship
First start:	1951 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1956 Grand Prix of Argentina
Constructors
1951 Scuderia Ferrari  1952 Escuderia Bandeirantes  1953 Escuderia Bandeirantes - Scuderia Milano  1956 Maserati
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-25. ( 1956 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 6th - - -
World Cup points :	1.5
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Francisco Sacco "Chico" Landi (born July 14, 1907 in São Paulo ; † June 7, 1989 there ) was a Brazilian racing driver. Chico Landi was the first Brazilian who could make an impression on the professional world in the Formula 1 era of the 1950s.

Career

Chico Landi's motorsport career began in the 1930s with races in Brazil, he won the Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix three times (1941, 1947 and 1948). This was held on the demanding, serpentine Gávea race track, nicknamed "the devil's springboard". He became internationally known at races in Argentina in 1947, and so he was the first Brazilian to compete in Europe. In 1948 he won the Formula 2 - Gran-Premio di Bari (against such well-known drivers as Luigi Villoresi , Achille Varzi , Tazio Nuvolari and Giuseppe Farina ).

In the 1950s he drove either private Ferraris or Maseratis on various missions. He achieved his best placement in the 1956 World Automobile Championship at the Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires , when he achieved 4th place on a Maserati 250F , replaced by Gerino Gerini in the race .

A little later he turned more to his actual job: Like many of his English and French driver colleagues at the time, he also ran a car spare parts and repair shop in his hometown.

For motorsport but returned Landi at the end of his life as a functionary back. As manager of the Interlagos racing circuit , the 78-year-old was responsible for the consolidation of the circuit from 1985 onwards. Four years later the newly elected mayor of that city removed him from his post. Only a few months later, Landi died, who had at least lived to see three compatriots in Formula 1 racing for the title - Emerson Fittipaldi , Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1951	Francisco Landi	Ferrari 375/50	Ferrari 4.5 V12	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1952	Escuderia Bandeirantes	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.0 L6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1953	Escuderia Bandeirantes	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	Scuderia Milano	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-
1956	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	1.5	25th
total				6th	-	-	-	-	-	1.5

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1951
						DNA	DNF	DNA
1952
				DNA			9	8th
1953
								DNF	DNF
1956
	4th

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
1956	Maserati	Maserati 300S	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
			DNF

Web links

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