Ottorino Volonterio

Ottorino Volonterio

Nation:	Switzerland
Automobile world championship
First start:	1954 Spanish Grand Prix
Last start:	1957 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1954  Toulo de Graffenried 1956 and 1957 Ottorino Volonterio
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Ottorino Volonterio (born December 7, 1917 in Orselina ; † March 10, 2003 in Lugano ) was a Swiss automobile racing driver .

Career

Volonterio, a lawyer from Locarno , drove sports car races in Maserati racing vehicles with a lot of enthusiasm and few results in the early 1950s . His greatest success was second place at the Coupé de Paris 1955 in Montlhéry .

He drove his first Formula 1 Grand Prix in Pedralbes in Spain in 1954 when he took over the Maserati 250F from Toulo de Graffenried . With engine failure, Volonterio had to give up prematurely.

All in all, the Swiss, who was far too slow for a Formula 1 driver, drove three World Championship races. At the Nürburgring 1956 he crossed the finish line six laps behind the winner, Juan Manuel Fangio . At the 1957 Italian Grand Prix in Monza , he shared the Maserati with André Simon . The deficit at the finish on the winner Stirling Moss was 15 laps.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1954	Emmanuel de Graffenried	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1956	Ottorino Volonterio	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1957	Ottorino Volonterio	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1954
									DNF
1956
						DNA	NC
1957
								11

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	WD	withdrawn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	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1965	Scuderia St. Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
					10	7th
1967	Ottorino Volonterio	Alfa Romeo TZ	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
					DNF

literature

• Rainer W. Schlegelmilch : Portraits of the 60's . Könemann, 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

Commons : Ottorino Volonterio  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Image: Ottorino Volonterio 1956
• Ottorino Volonterio at Racing Sportsw Cars