Otelle Nucci
| Surname | Otelle Nucci |
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| Companies | |
| Company headquarters | Alberton , South Africa |
| Team boss | Otelle Nucci, Doug Serrurier |
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| First Grand Prix | South Africa 1962 |
| Last Grand Prix | South Africa 1965 |
| Race driven | 3 |
| Constructors' championship | 0 |
| Drivers World Championship | 0 |
| Race wins | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Points | |
Otelle Nucci was a South African Formula 1 team operated by racing driver and designer Louis Douglas "Doug" Serrurier . The team's name is derived from the South African businessman Otelle "Jack" Nucci, who sponsored several local racing drivers in the late 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s, the team was primarily involved in the South African Formula 1 championship , but also took part in several rounds of the Formula 1 world championship. It was the first team to bring a racing car designed in South Africa to the finish line in a Formula 1 world championship run.
History of origin
Since 1960, a national automobile championship has been held in South Africa, the regulations of which were based on those of Formula 1. The races for the South African Formula 1 Championship, which were not part of the Formula 1 World Championship, mostly took place on South African tracks in East London , Killarney or Kyalami ; every year, however, a race was held in neighboring Southern Rhodesia . In the 1960s, there was a “committed community of drivers” in South Africa, many of whom started with disused racing cars from European manufacturers. However, some racing drivers also designed their own vehicles, which are referred to as "specials" in English. In addition to Peter de Klerk, they also included Doug Serrurier.
Serrurier developed various racing cars in South Africa from 1957, which bore the brand name LDS and were mostly based on British designs by Cooper or Brabham . The LDS vehicles were mostly powered by Alfa Romeo engines; However, some examples had engines from Porsche , Climax or Repco at times . Serrurier produced a total of five model series, 13 of which were realized. He sold most of them to South African or South Rhodesian racing drivers such as Sam Tingle , Errol Hamman , Fanie Viljoen , Dave Clapham and Jackie Pretorius , who they fielded with their own teams in the national Formula 1 series. Serrurier kept individual vehicles for himself. He registered her for the Otelle Nucci team, of which he was the driver.
Otelle Nucci in the Formula 1 World Championship
The Otelle Nucci team registered for three Formula 1 world championship races from 1962 to 1965 . They were each the South African Grand Prix . The driver of the Otelle Nucci was Doug Serrurier, in two cases also Peter de Klerk.
1962 Grand Prix of South Africa
In his world championship debut, the 1962 Grand Prix of South Africa held on December 29, 1962 , Otelle Nucci reported an LDS Mark 2, which was powered by a four-cylinder engine from the Alfa Romeo Giulietta . Serrulier qualified with him for 14th of 17 starting places. He was seven seconds behind the pole sitter Jim Clark , who drove for the Lotus factory team. Serrurier retired from the race after 65 of 82 laps due to a defective radiator.
1963 South African Grand Prix
For the 1963 Grand Prix of South Africa , which took place in late December 1963 , Otelle Nucci registered two drivers. Serrurier competed with starting number 16, who again brought the LDS Mark 2 with an Alfa engine to the start. Serrurier's team mate Peter de Klerk, who drove an "Alfa Romeo Special" designed by himself, was given number 18.
A total of 20 drivers registered for the race. The first eleven starting positions were occupied by the drivers of the established European works teams Brabham, BRM , Cooper and Ferrari . Starting from position 12 on the grid, the South African drivers positioned themselves with their older cars more than six seconds per lap than the factory team drivers. Peter De Klerk's deficit on Jim Clark's pole time was 6.8 seconds in qualifying; so he reached the 16th place on the grid. Serrurier was 0.7 seconds slower than de Klerk in his LDS and finished 18th on the grid.
Serrurier finished the race eight laps behind in 12th place. It was the first time that a racing car designed in South Africa crossed the finish line in a Formula 1 World Championship. De Klerk retired after 53 of 85 laps after a gearbox failure.
Another LDS Mark 2 was brought to the start by Sam Tingle. He was registered as a privateer and retired on the second lap due to a broken half-wave.
1965 South African Grand Prix
The next South African Grand Prix took place 369 days later on January 1, 1965; it was already part of the 1965 World Cup . The Otelle Nucci team reported again Serrurier in the LDS Mark 2 (start number 21). Unlike the previous event, the car was powered by a four-cylinder engine from Coventry Climax. The second Otelle Nucci driver was Peter de Klerk in his “Alfa Romeo Special” (start number 20). De Klerk qualified for 16th place on the grid, 6.1 seconds behind Jim Clark, while Serrurier, who was two seconds slower, missed the qualification. De Klerk finished the race six laps behind in 10th place. The 1965 South African Grand Prix was the last Formula 1 world championship run to which a car from the Otelle Nucci team competed.
Other LDS vehicles were reported by private drivers Jackie Pretorius and Sam Tingle. Pretorius already failed because of the pre-qualification. Tingle qualified for last place on the grid and finished 13th, 13 laps behind.
Race results Formula 1 World Championship
| season | driver | chassis | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | Points | rank |
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.svg){kind=small} Doug Serrurier
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LDS Mark 2 - Alfa Romeo | 21st | DNF | ||||||||||||
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LDS Mark 2 - Alfa Romeo | 16 | 12 | ||||||||||||
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Alfa Romeo Special | 18th | DNF | ||||||||||||
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LDS Mark 2 - Climax | 21st | DNQ | ||||||||||||
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Peter de Klerk
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Alfa Romeo Special | 20th | 10 |
| 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 | |
literature
- David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1993 . Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
- David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2000. 1st edition, London 2001, ISBN 1861263392 (English)
- Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-1965 , Motor Racing Publications 1998, ISBN 1899870393 (English)
Web links
Statistics of the Otelle Nucci team on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on September 21, 2012).
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Grand Prix at the Cape. Presentation of the South African Formula 1 scene on the website www.forix.com (accessed on September 25, 2012).
- ↑ Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-65, p. 238 ff.
- ^ Hodges: Racing Cars from AZ after 1945, p. 130.