Fabio Buzzi

Fabio Buzzi (* 28. January 1943 in Lecco , † 17th September 2019 in Venice ) was an Italian motor boat - design engineer , motor boating world champion .

Life

Fabio Buzzi was born in Lecco in 1943. In 1960 he played his first motorboat competitions. He finished his mechanical engineering studies at the Polytechnic University of Turin in 1971 with a thesis on a vehicle he designed himself. For his work as a motorboat designer, Fabio Buzzi founded a design brand, FB Design .

Fabio Buzzi started motorboat races on the open sea in 1978 and won the Italian and European championships in Class 3. The following year he set the world speed record for diesel motor boats with a VM engine with a top speed of 191.58 km / h.

In 1986 he developed the Seatekmotor and was co-founder of a company that produces these diesel engines with a very high output. With this engine he became Italian champion as well as European and world champion in the open class in 1988.

With his boats he won a total of 52 world titles and seven times the Harmsworth Trophy. He set 40 world speed records. Buzzi himself has won ten world championships.

In 1992 he set the speed record for diesel boats with a boat powered by a Seatek engine at 252 km / h.

In 2004, at the age of 61, Fabio Buzzi became P-Class World Champion in Key West , won the Harmsworth Trophy, set two long-distance records ( Venice - Monte Carlo and Tampa - Miami ) and won the Pavia- Venice race at an average speed of 198 km / h with a boat powered by a gas turbine.

In 2008 he won the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race with 182 miles in a restored Cesa 1882 boat . He finished the race in 2 hours 18 minutes and 5 seconds at an average speed of 91 mph.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 3 people die in a speedboat accident off Venice. In: Südtirol Online. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Seatek high performance engine. Retrieved May 19, 2013 . 

Web links

• Fabio Buzzi. Archived from the original on February 8, 2014 ; accessed on May 19, 2013 (English).