Mario Tadini

Mario Tadini (* 1905 in Bologna ; † August 1983 ) was an Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver .

Career

Tadini owned a chain of clothing stores in the 1920s and co-founded Scuderia Ferrari . At a dinner in Bologna in November 1929, Tadini agreed to financially support Enzo Ferrari's ambitions to found his own racing team. Tadini was also a talented amateur racer who achieved some success before World War II . In 1933, for example, he was third in the Grand Prix races in Bordino, Modena and Naples. He won the Lucca Grand Prix in 1935 and 1936 and the Coppa della Colonnetta sports car race in 1932.

In the 1930s he was an excellent mountain driver and won, among other things, the Grand Mountain Prize of Austria on the Grossglockner in 1935 and the Parma – Poggio di Berceto mountain race in 1937. In 1933 he had won the overall ranking of the sports car class of the European Hill Climb Championship. After the war he attempted a comeback and drove a few races in the Ferrari 212F2 before finally retiring from racing in the mid-1950s.

statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Mario Tadini	Jaguar C-Type	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
				DNF

Web links

• Tadini, Mario. www.technischesmuseum.at, accessed on July 27, 2014 . 
• Mario Tadini, Italy. www.racingsportscars.com, accessed on May 24, 2015 . 
• Leif Snellman, Felix Muelas: Mario Tadini (I). www.kolumbus.fi, April 16, 2015, accessed on May 24, 2015 . 
• Mario Tadini - winner 1935 - in 14:42, 72 minutes www.grossglockner-grandprix.de
• Image: Mario Tadini