Gianfranco Comotti

Gianfranco Comotti

Nation:	Italy
Automobile world championship
First start:	1950 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1952 French Grand Prix
Constructors
1950  Scuderia Milano  • 1952  Gianfranco Comotti
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Gianfranco "Franco" Alessandro Maria Comotti (born July 24, 1906 in Brescia , † May 10, 1963 in Bergamo ) was an Italian racing driver . He was the husband of the racing driver Anna Maria Peduzzi .

Career

Comotti remained an amateur driver throughout his life, which does not say anything about his driving qualities. His main occupation was in the oil business, and occasionally he worked as a test driver, as which he was in great demand. However, he lacked the consistency for the great successes in motorsport.

His first race was the 1928 Italian Grand Prix in a Talbot , after which he only appeared again in the Alfa Romeo team from 1932 to 1935 . His greatest success was winning the Grand Prix du Comminges in 1934 . He was then a test driver and occasional pilot at Talbot-Lago and Delahaye .

During the Second World War he was an informant in German-occupied northern Italy and only narrowly escaped execution by the National Socialists . After the war he still appeared in Maserati cars and a private Ferrari , but concentrated more and more on his business, which he pursued as a BP employee in North Africa until his death .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1950	Scuderia Milano	Maserati 4CLT / 50	Maserati 1.5 L4s	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1952	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 166F2	Ferrari 1.5 V12	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1950
						DNA	DNF
1952
				12

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	WD	withdrawn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

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1938	Ecurie Bleue	Delahaye 145	Albert Divo	failure	Gearbox damage

Web links

Commons : Gianfranco Comotti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gianfranco Comotti at Racing Sports Cars
• Leif Snellman: Gianfranco "Franco" Alessandro Maria Comotti (I). www.kolumbus.fi, February 25, 2020, accessed on March 28, 2020 (English). 
• Gianfranco Comotti. www.24h-en-piste.com, accessed on March 28, 2020 (French). 
• Franco Comotti in the Internet Movie Database (English)