Luigi Piotti

Luigi Piotti

Nation:	Italy
Automobile world championship
First start:	1956 Grand Prix of Argentina
Last start:	1957 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1956 Officine Alfieri Maserati and Luigi Piotti 1957 Luigi Piotti
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Luigi Piotti (born October 27, 1913 in Milan , † April 9, 1971 in Godiasco ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

The Ferrari 250 Monza with the Luigi Piotti together with Maurice Trintignant , the 12-hour race in Hyeres 1,954 won

Luigi Piotti, an Italian businessman who raced for pleasure, had some success in sports car racing early in his career. In 1952 he celebrated a class win at the Tour de Sicilly with a privately registered OSCA and surprisingly came third at the Targa Florio in 1954 . In the same year he won the rarely driven Hyères 12-hour race in a works Ferrari together with Maurice Trintignant .

In 1956 he made his debut in the Formula 1 World Championship . In 1955 he had finished seventh at the Gran Premio di Siracusa and his strong performance earned him a Maserati factory car for the Argentine Grand Prix . In the race, to the astonishment of the professional world, the Italian fought his way up to the top group before colliding in his Maserati 250F with the Ferrari 555 Supersqualo from Peter Collins . At the Italian Grand Prix , he caused a stir again when he unceremoniously pushed the Stirling Moss Maserati, which had broken down without petrol, into the pits. Moss won the race, Piotti finished sixth, three laps behind, and narrowly missed a championship point.

He drove his Maserati regularly until 1958 in monoposto races. At the end of the season he retired from racing and dedicated himself to his business. Piotti celebrated successes in sports car racing , where he achieved five overall victories in endurance races .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1956	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	Luigi Piotti	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-
1957	Luigi Piotti	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1955
							DNS
1956
	DNF							6th
1957
	10	DNQ					DNF	DNF
1958
		DNQ

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

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953		Ferrari 166 MM	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
				24
1954		Osca 2000S	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
					20th
1955		Ferrari 750 Monza	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
					DNF			DNF
1957	Maserati Osca	Maserati 350S Osca S1500	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
			5			DNF
1958		Osca S1500	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Luigi Piotti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Luigi Piotti at Racing Sports Cars