Franco Rol
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 Italy
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| First start: | Monaco Grand Prix 1950 | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1952 Italian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1950 Officine Alfieri Masersati 1951 OSCA Automobili 1952 Officine Alfieri Maserati | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | - | ||||||||
| Podiums : | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | - | ||||||||
Franco Rol (born June 5, 1908 in Turin , † June 18, 1977 in Rapallo ) was an Italian racing driver .
Career
Franco Rol was an Italian aristocrat who started out in motorsport as a gentleman driver in the 1940s. His Alfa Romeo had a special, short chassis and Rol led the 1948 Grand Prix of Sicily with it before an engine failure stopped him. In 1949 he was third in the Mille Miglia .
Rol joined Formula 1 in 1950 . He became a team-mate of Louis Chiron at Maserati . He made his debut at the Monaco Grand Prix , where he was involved in the first lap collision. The races in France and Italy also ended without a countable result for Rol.
In 1951 he moved to the OSCA team , but only contested the race in Monza , which he finished ninth.
In 1953 Franco Rol's career ended after a serious accident in a road race in Sicily . Rol survived a heavy impact in a wall with serious injuries, was able to recover completely, but did not race anymore.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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| 1950 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati 4CLT / 48 | Maserati 1.5 L4s | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| 1951 | OSCA | Osca 4500G | Osca 4.5 V12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| 1952 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati A6GCM | Maserati 2.0 L6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| total | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
Single results
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| 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 |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who, 3rd Edition . Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .
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| SURNAME | Rol, Franco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1977 |
| Place of death | Rapallo |