Mauro Martini

The Toyota 94C-V of Eddie Irvine , Jeff Krosnoff and Mauro Martini at the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans

Mauro Martini (born May 17, 1964 in Alfonsine ) is a former Italian racing driver .

Career

Mauro Martini began his career in 1985 in the Italian Formula 3 championship and celebrated his first race win in this racing series in 1987 on a Dallara 387 . He was also involved in this racing series in 1988, but in the same year he also contested all races in the European Formula 3 Cup . Martini finished second overall in both championships at the end of the year. In 1989 he entered the Japanese Formula 3000 championship, in which he remained active until 1996. In 1990 he was third overall.

In 1991 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . He achieved his best placement on the Sarthe in 1994 when he finished second overall, which he achieved together with Eddie Irvine and Jeff Krosnoff in a Toyota 94C-V .

After a race in Formula Nippon and three outings in the FIA GT Championship on a Lotus Elise GT1 , he retired from racing at the end of 1997.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1991	TWR Suntec Racing	Jaguar XJR 12	David Leslie	Jeff Krosnoff	failure	Power transmission
1993	Y's Racing Team	Toyota 93C-V	Roland Ratzenberger	Naoki Nagasaka	5th place and class win
1994	SARD Company Ltd.	Toyota 94C-V	Eddie Irvine	Jeff Krosnoff	Rank 2 and class win
1995	SARD Co. Ltd.	Toyota Supra GT LM	Marco Apicella	Jeff Krosnoff	Rank 14
1996	Team Menicon SARD Co. Ltd.	SARD MC8-R	Alain Ferté	Pascal Fabre	Rank 24

Web links

Commons : Mauro Martini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mauro Martini at Racing Sports Cars