Evasio Lampiano
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Evasio Lampiano (born May 21, 1888 in Turin , † June 14, 1923 in Gex ) was an Italian racing driver .
Career
Lampiano is described as small and stocky. In his hometown of Turin, which was a center of automobile construction at the beginning of the 20th century , he came into contact with racing at an early age . From 1907 - at the age of only 19 - Lampiano competed in important races as the co-driver of important men’s drivers (including Matteo Ceirano ), including the Targa Florio in Sicily .
Evasio Lampiano was employed by Fiat in 1911 . There he worked as a mechanic, running in, testing and developing the vehicles. A little later he moved to the racing department of the Turin company, for which he in 1914 as co-driver of the British pilot Jack Scales at the French Grand Prix on the Circuit de Lyon participated. The duo dropped out of the race with technical problems.
After the end of the First World War , Lampiano was involved in Fiat's resumption of racing activities and, in addition to his role as test driver, competed again as driver and co-driver. As a pilot, he specialized in mountain races , where he mostly competed in the displacement category of up to 1500 cm³ and developed into one of the most prominent racing drivers in Europe in this class. At the Targa Florio in 1921 he was a co-pilot of Pietro Bordino on a Fiat 801 . A little later, he was third in the Italian Grand Prix at the Circuito di Montichiari near Brescia as the co-driver of Louis Wagner in a Fiat 802 . In 1922 he celebrated a class victory in a Fiat 501 SS at the Targa Florio. At the Parma – Poggio di Berceto hill climb , he also won a class as well as the Course de Côte de la Faucille . At this event at the Col de la Faucille , he came third in the overall standings just behind the 3-liter Ballot by Giulio Foresti and the 5-liter Delage by René Thomas .
Evasio Lampiano acted as copilot for Pietro Bordino , Louis Wagner and above all Felice Nazzaro , with whom he formed a very well-coordinated team. Shortly before the French Grand Prix in 1922 on the Circuit de Strasbourg , the Nazzaro / Lampiano duo had a serious accident. During a test drive on a public road that was customary at the time, Nazzaro at the wheel of the Fiat 804 Grand Prix car near Bruino near Turin had to avoid a horse-drawn cart loaded with hay that crossed the road at top speed . In doing so, he lost control of the car and crashed into an embankment. Nazzaro escaped uninjured, and Lampiano broke his arm so badly that he was unable to take part in the French Grand Prix.
After several weeks in plaster of paris, Lampiano was able to intervene again in the racing scene in late summer 1922. At the II Gran Premio delle Vetturette on the high-speed railway from Monza on September 3, 1922, he came third behind his Fiat colleagues Pietro Bordino and Enrico Giaccone . Carlo Salamano completed the quadruple success of the 502 SS factory car.
In the late spring of 1923 Lampiano celebrated two impressive victories at the Jura Cup and the Gurnigel mountain race in Switzerland on a 502 SS. He then returned to Turin, where he received a new works car for the hill climb on Col de la Faucille , which was scheduled for June 17, 1923. This vehicle was the 2-liter 804 with which his friend and teammate Biagio Nazzaro had a fatal accident at the French Grand Prix last year. The news that Nazarro's wife had also died in a traffic accident at the beginning of June 1923 shocked Lampiano all the more on his return.
Deadly accident
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In the early afternoon of June 14, 1923, during free practice on the Course de Côte de la Faucille , Lampiano lost control of his 804 about 600 meters after taking off at the exit of a double curve. The car hit a curb at about 100 km / h , then crashed into an embankment and overturned. While his co-driver Morgante was thrown out of the car and escaped injured in the accident, Lampiano was trapped under the vehicle. Both were admitted to Gex Hospital, where Dr. Dumas could only determine Lampiano's death. He had already died at the scene of the accident from severe spinal and head injuries.
Evasio Lampiano was 35 years old. He left behind his wife and five-year-old daughter Rinuccia. The funeral took place on the evening of June 23rd, attended by thousands of people. Among the mourners were Lampiano's father Domenico, his brother Leone, Giovanni Agnelli , his son Edoardo , Vittorio Valletta , other top representatives and many simple workers from Fiat, numerous racing driver colleagues and even representatives of the Juventus football club .
Evasio Lampiano was the second of three Fiat factory drivers who had a fatal accident with the 804 within just 13 months. On July 15, 1922, Biagio Nazzaro died in a racing accident at the French Grand Prix and two months after Lampiano's death, Enrico Giaccone had an accident during a test drive in Monza.
References
Web links
- Evasio Lampiano. www.motorsportmemorial.org, accessed June 18, 2017 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 13 ^ TARGA FLORIO. www.targaflorio.info, accessed June 18, 2017 (Italian).
- ↑ II Gran Premio delle Vetturette. (No longer available online.) Www.teamdan.comg, archived from the original on May 4, 2009 ; accessed on June 18, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hans Etzrodt: HILL CLIMB WINNERS 1897-1949, Part 2 (1915-1923). www.kolumbus.fi, accessed on June 18, 2017 (English).
- ^ Il corridore Lampiano della Fiat morto in un accidente automobilistico. In: La Stampa . www.archiviolastampa.it, June 15, 1923, accessed June 18, 2017 (Italian).
- ^ I funerali del corridore Lampiano. In: La Stampa . www.archiviolastampa.it, June 24, 1923, accessed June 18, 2017 (Italian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lampiano, Evasio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1923 |
| Place of death | Gex |