Lucchini Engineering

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Lucchini SR2-Alfa Romeo 3.0 12V in the 2005 Spa-Francorchamps 000 km race.
Lucchini LMP2 / 08 at the Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race in 2009 .

Lucchini LMP2-08 Lucchini Engineering is an Italian sports car manufacturer and operator of the Lucchini Corse racing team .

history

The motorsport company was founded in 1980 by Giorgio Lucchini in Porto Mantovano and produces a large number of open sports car prototypes that are used in hill climbs in the CN group and in the Le Mans prototype series for long-distance races. The various vehicles were powered by engines from Alfa Romeo, BMW, Ford, Opel, Judd or Nissan.

Lucchini has had a number of successes over the years, including winning the FIA ​​Sportscar Championship Team and Constructors' Championship in the SR2 class in 2002 and 2003. Lucchini's vehicles have also won various European hillclimb championships, including Swiss Philippe Darbellay in 1991 a Lucchini S289. In 2006 Filippo Francioni won the Italian prototype championships with a Lucchini-Alfa Romeo 12V. Giampiero Consonni drove in the Italian championships with sports prototype vehicles from Lucchini in the 1990s and also won a few races.

From 2008 LMP2 prototypes with Judd engines that were used in the Le Mans Series were manufactured. The drivers were the Italian drivers Marco Didaio, Filippo Francioni and Mirco Savoldi.

Although there are still numerous Lucchini racing cars around the world, the whereabouts of the sports car manufacturer is unclear, and production probably stopped in 2009. Numerous Lucchini vehicles can still be found in historic motorsport races. A well-known vehicle from 1986 (series SN86) is owned by the German racing driver Helmut Bross .

Racing cars produced

Excerpt: Model name , engine , year of construction :

  • SN86-33, Alfa Romeo 2.5, 1986
  • SP288-050, BMW, 1988
  • S289 / 055, Alfa Romeo, 1989
  • SP390 / 072, according to customer requirements , 1990
  • SP390 / 073, Alfa Romeo 3.0 24V, 1990
  • SP90 / 077, Alfa Romeo, 1990
  • SP91 / 084, Alfa Romeo 3.0 12V, 1991
  • SP91 / 085, according to customer requirements , 1991
  • P394 / 102, Alfa Romeo 3.0 24V, 1994
  • P3-94M-105, BMW, 1994
  • P3-95M-111, BMW, 1995
  • P3-96 / 116, Alfa Romeo, 1996
  • P3-96M-124, BMW, 1996
  • P1-97 / 130, BMW, 1997
  • P1-98 / 132, BMW, 1998
  • P1-98 / 133, Alfa Romeo, 1998
  • P1-98 / 136, BMW, 1998
  • SR1-98 / 138, Ford, 1999
  • SR2-99 / 139, Alfa Romeo 3.0 12V, 1999
  • SR2-99 / 140, Alfa Romeo, 1999
  • SR2000 / 141, Alfa Romeo, 2000
  • SR2000 / 142, Alfa Romeo, 2000
  • SR2001 / 143, Alfa Romeo, 2001
  • SR2001 / 144, Alfa Romeo, 2001
  • SR2001 / 145, Alfa Romeo, 2001
  • SR2001 / 146, Alfa Romeo, 2001
  • SR2002 / 147, Alfa Romeo, 2002
  • SR2002 / 148, Nissan, 2002
  • LMP2-04 / 152, Judd, 2004
  • LMP2-04 / 157, according to customer requirements , 2006
  • LMP2-04 / 158, according to customer requirements , 2006
  • LMP2-08 / 165, Judd, 2008
  • LMP2-08 / 166, Judd, 2008

Web links

Commons : Lucchini Engineering  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucchini - Judd 2008 ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on europeanlemansseries.com
  2. ↑ Photo Helmut Bross with Lucchini SN86
  3. ↑ Model and chassis numbers on racingsportscars.com