Giampiero Biscaldi

The Alfa Romeo T33 / 2 with Giampiero Biscaldi at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1968 was at the start

Giampiero Biscaldi (born September 2, 1937 in Milan - † November 6, 2014 ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

Giampiero Biscaldi was known as a successful sports car driver in the 1960s, and his appearances in the monoposto were rare. The Italian began his career in the 1950s and drove his first international race in 1962 in Montlhéry ; he finished the 1000 km race in Paris in 16th place overall.

In 1963 he became a works driver for Abarth . After a sixth place in the Consuma hill climb and a fourth final place up on the Rossfeld , he made his debut at the 24-hour Le Mans race for Scuderia St. Ambroeus in the summer . In the race he was disqualified for unauthorized refilling of oil too early on the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato. His best result for Abarth was third overall on an Abarth-Simca 1300 at the Coppa Inter-Europa .

In 1965 he received a two-year contract from Enzo Ferrari and competed for Scuderia in the World Sports Car Championship . The great successes failed to materialize in these two years; the best result he achieved together with Giancarlo Baghetti was 13th in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring in 1965 .

At the end of the 1960s he had the most successful phase in the world championship. He spent his last years as an active driver, in 1968 and 1969, with the Alfa Romeo works team . He celebrated his greatest success in motorsport with a non-Italian team. In the Targa Florio in 1967 was in the works - Porsche 910 second behind teammate Paul Hawkins and Rolf Stommelen . Biscaldi's teammate was Leo Cella .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1963	Scuderia St. Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	Sergio Pedretti	Disqualified
1964	Scuderia St. Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulietta TZ	Giancarlo Sala	Rank 15
1965	SPA Ferrari SEFAC	Ferrari 275P2	Lorenzo Bandini	failure	Engine failure
1966	Ed Hugus	Ferrari 275 GTB	Michel de Bourbon-Parma	failure	Clutch damage
1968	Autodelta SpA	Alfa Romeo TT33 / 2	Mario Casoni	Rank 6

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1963	Abarth Corse	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	Piero Frescobaldi		failure	Engine failure
1964	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ	Roberto Bussinello	Consalvo Sanesi	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1962	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulietta	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
																	16
1963	Abarth Scuderia St. Ambroeus	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Fiat-Abarth 1000	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
					DNF	DNF				6th	6th	DNF			16	15th			15th	6th	3
1964	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo TZ Alfa Romeo Giulietta	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
				DNF					13		15th								DNF			17th
1965	Ferrari Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Ferrari Dino 166P Ferrari 275 GTB Ferrari 275P2	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
							DNF		DNF		13			DNF					3
1966	Scuderia St. Ambroeus Ed Hugus	Ferrari Dino 206S Ferrari 275 GTB Abarth 1300 OT	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
					DNF	14th			DNF	DNF
1967	Porsche	Porsche 910 Porsche 906	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
							2				5
1968	Autodelta Racing Team VDS	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			7th			DNF	6th					6th
1969	NART Picchio Rosso	Ferrari Dino 206S Porsche 907	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			DNF						28

Web links

Commons : Giampiero Biscaldi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Giampiero Biscaldi at Racing Sports Cars
• Giampiero Biscaldi at F1Stats

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Coppa Inter-Europa 1963