Piero Drogo

Piero Drogo

Nation:	Italy
Automobile world championship
First start:	1960 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1960  Scuderia Colonia
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Piero Drogo (born August 8, 1926 in Vignale ; † April 28, 1973 in Bologna ) was an Italian racing car driver and coachbuilder .

Career

Piero Drogo drove his first car races in South America. In 1956 he finished seventh in the Venezuela Grand Prix in Caracas and in 1957 he won his class in the 1000 km race in Buenos Aires . A year later he was able to surpass this success when he finished fourth in this race as co-driver for José Froilán González in a factory Ferrari .

In 1958 he came to Europe, but initially had no racing luck. He retired after an accident at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . In 1959 he ran out of money and Drogo took a job as a mechanic at Stanguellini . Due to the boycott of the British teams at the 1960 Italian Grand Prix in Monza , Drogo had his only Grand Prix start. For Scuderia Colonia, he drove a Cooper T43 to eighth place in the ranking. However, at the finish he was five laps behind the winner Phil Hill in a Ferrari Dino 246F1 .

In 1961 he founded the car body construction company Carrozzeria Sports Cars in Via Emilia Quest in Modena . His first assignment was the rebuilding of the Maserati Tipo 61 by Lloyd Casner , the latter had almost completely destroyed by his serious accident in Pescara. In the 1960s he body the Ferrari “Breadvan” for the racing team of Conte Giovanni Volpi and was responsible for the drogo noses of the Ferrari 250LM . The P prototypes also had a Drogo body.

Piero Drogo died in an accident near Bologna in 1973 when his private car hit an unlit truck in a tunnel .

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1960	Scuderia Colonia	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1960
									8th

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

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1958	Fernand Tavano	Ferrari 250TR	Alfonso Gomez-Mena	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1957	Madunina Venezuela	Ferrari 500 TR	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
			7th						8th
1958	Piero Drogo Fernand Tavano	Ferrari 250TR	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			4th				DNF
1959	Scuderia Centro Sud	Maserati A6G	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				5

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .
• Anthony Pritchard: Scarlet Passion. Ferrari's famed Sports Prototypes and Competition Cars, 1962–73. Haynes et al. a., Sparkford et al. a. 2004, ISBN 1-85960-872-8 . #

Web links

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