Peter Schetty

The Ferrari 312P with Peter Schetty at the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans was the start

Peter Schetty (* 1942 in Basel ) is a former Swiss car racing driver and racing director of Scuderia Ferrari .

Career

Peter Schetty comes from a wealthy Swiss textile entrepreneurial family . In the 1960s he started hill climbing and drove in 1965 and 1966 for the Scuderia Filipinetti their Shelby Mustang in the European Hill Climb Championship . Schetty won the Gaisbergrennen and the Roßfeld , among others . After a year at Abarth in 1967 , he got a works contract with Scuderia Ferrari in 1968. With the Ferrari 212E Montagna he dominated the championship in 1969, won all races in the sports car class and took the championship title.

In 1970, Schetty was promoted to the Scuderia sports car team and competed in the sports car world championship with the Ferrari 512S . At the 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps he finished second with Jacky Ickx and third at the 1000 km race of Monza as a partner of John Surtees .

At the end of 1970 he ended his racing career and in 1971 took over the position of race director at Scuderia. The Swiss headed the fate of the Italian racing team for two years before he retired from motorsport entirely at the end of the 1972 season to take over the management of the family business.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1969	Ferrari SEFAC Spa	Ferrari 312P	Chris Amon	failure	accident
1970	Ferrari SEFAC Spa	Ferrari 512S	Jacky Ickx	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1970	Ferrari SPA SEFAC	Ferrari 512S Spyder	Jacky Ickx	failure	Cylinder overheated

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
1966	Karl Foitek	Shelby Mustang	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
													12
1967	Abarth	Abarth 2000SP	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
															4th
1969	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312P	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						DNF				DNF
1970	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 512S	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			DNF	DNF		3		7th		DNF	5

Web links

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• Peter Schetty at Racing Sports Cars