Luigi Musso
Nation: | Italy | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1953 Italian Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1958 French Grand Prix | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1953–56 Officine Alfieri Maserati · 1956–58 Scuderia Ferrari | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | World Cup third ( 1957 ) | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | 44 | ||||||||
Podiums : | 7th | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | 6 over 65.6 km |
Luigi Musso (born July 28, 1924 in Rome , † July 6, 1958 in Reims ) was an Italian Formula 1 and sports car racing driver.
Career
The diplomat's son
Luigi Musso was the youngest of three sons of an Italian diplomat who had served his country primarily in China . The family was wealthy so he could afford all the sports of a " gentleman ". Musso was considered a talented marksman, rider and fencer.
He was enthusiastic about motorsport from a young age and was particularly shaped by the successful ambitions of his oldest brother Giuseppe in this area. So Luigi Musso bought a small 750 cm³ Giannini to take part in the 1950 “Giro Sicilia”. This first race ended with a crash in the monument to the national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi and a gearbox defect.
Breakthrough with the Maserati youth team
It was not until 1952 that Musso was able to convince one of his brothers to entrust him with his Stanguellini , with whom he showed promising achievements. But his real breakthrough came when Maserati was planning a sports car team with three young drivers : Sergio Mantovani , Emilio Giletti and Luigi Musso. Musso soon won the title in the 2.5-liter sports car class. The first trips in a Grand Prix monoposto followed at the end of 1953. In 1954 he competed in international sports car races as well as occasionally in Formula 1 races with a Maserati 250F , where he drew attention to himself with second place at the Spanish Grand Prix won the non-World Cup Pescara Grand Prix .
The move to Ferrari
In 1955 he stayed with Maserati and was again Italian champion. But at the beginning of the Automobile World Championship in 1956 , Ferrari hired him , where he - as was common with almost all drivers at the time - completed both sports car and Formula 1 races. In Argentina , Juan Manuel Fangio took over his car and won the race, so that he shared the victory with it. In the 12-hour race at Sebring , he reached the second place in the Mille Miglia third. Another victory would have been achievable, but after an accident at the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring , he had to pause for many weeks. In September he had recovered somewhat. At the Italian Grand Prix he refused to give his car to Fangio. After an eventful race with many changes in leadership and defects, he was in the lead and was on the way to victory when the steering lever of his car broke three laps before the end of the race and he was eliminated.
After these relative disappointments, however, he stayed with Ferrari as a regular team member and won the 1000 km race for sports cars in Buenos Aires in 1957 and participated in various Grand Prix. A victory at the renowned Targa Florio rounded off his success. His best year was the automobile world championship in 1957 , in which he was third in the world championship with 16 points. He also won the Reims GP that was not part of the world championship that year.
In his 24 Formula 1 races, Musso often demonstrated his versatility and reliability, especially in Argentina and France he showed his best performances and was absolutely equal to Fangio or Hawthorn. In addition to the victory in Buenos Aires in 1956 , five second places, a third, a fourth and a fifth place testify to his class.
The fatal accident in Reims
At the 1958 French Grand Prix in Reims , Musso kept close ties with his teammate Mike Hawthorn when his car shot into a ditch in a long, fast corner at around 200 km / h and he himself was thrown out of his seat. He died of serious injuries a few hours later in a city hospital .
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
Grand Prix victories
- 1956: Argentina ( Buenos Aires )
general overview
season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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1953 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati A6GCM | Maserati 2.0 L6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
1954 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 6th | 8th. |
1955 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati 250F | Maserati 2.5 L6 | 6th | - | - | - | - | - | 6th | 10. |
1956 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari D50 | Ferrari 2.5 V8 | 4th | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4th | 11. |
1957 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari D50 A | Ferrari 2.5 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 3. |
Ferrari 801 | 5 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | |||||
1958 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari Dino 246F1 | Ferrari 2.4 V6 | 5 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 12 | 8th. |
total | 24 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 1 | 44 |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 |
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1953 | |||||||||||
- / 7 | |||||||||||
1954 | |||||||||||
DNF | DNF | 2 | |||||||||
1955 | |||||||||||
7 / DNF | DNF | 7th | 3 | 5 | DNF | ||||||
1956 | |||||||||||
1/- | DNF | DNF | DNF | ||||||||
1957 | |||||||||||
DNF | 2 | 2 | 4th | DNF | 8th | ||||||
1958 | |||||||||||
2 | 2 | 7th | DNF | † |
Legend | ||
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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 |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1955 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati 300S | Luigi Valenzano | failure | Gearbox damage |
1957 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 335S | Mike Hawthorn | failure | Engine failure |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1954 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati A6GCS / 53 | Ferdinando Gatta | failure | Brakes |
1956 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 860 Monza | Harry Schell | Rank 2 | |
1957 | Ferrari Factory | Ferrari 315 Sport | Alfonso de Portago | Rank 7 | |
1958 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 250TR / 58 | Olivier Gendebien | Rank 2 |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th |
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1953 | Maserati | Maserati A6GCS | SEB | MIM | LEM | SPA | ONLY | RTT | CAP |
DNF | |||||||||
1954 | Maserati | Maserati A6GCS | BUA | SEB | MIM | LEM | RTT | CAP | |
6th | DNF | 3 | 5 | ||||||
1955 | Maserati |
Maserati A6GCS Maserati 300S |
BUA | SEB | MIM | LEM | RTT | TAR | |
DNF | DNF | 5 | DNF | ||||||
1956 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Ferrari 410 Sport Ferrari 860 Monza Ferrari 290MM |
BUA | SEB | MIM | ONLY | KRI | ||
DNF | 2 | 3 | DNF | ||||||
1957 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Ferrari 290MM Ferrari 315S Ferrari 335S |
BUA | SEB | MIM | ONLY | LEM | KRI | CAR |
1 | 7th | DNF | 4th | 2 | |||||
1958 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 250TR | BUA | SEB | TAR | ONLY | LEM | RTT | |
2 | 2 | 1 | 4th |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Speedweek - website: Luigi Musso. At: www.speedweek.de , accessed on November 6, 2012 .
- ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the sports car world championship 1956. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 6, 2012 .
- ^ Grandprix - Internet site: Grand Prix Results: Italian GP, 1956. At: www.grandprix.com , accessed on November 6, 2012 .
- ↑ Classicscars - Internet site: Race results of the sports car world championship 1957. At: www.classicscars.com , accessed on November 6, 2012 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Musso, Luigi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Formula 1 racing driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome , Italy |
DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1958 |
Place of death | Reims , France |