Renato Pirocchi drove the small Stanguellini sports car races when he rose to become one of the best drivers on the Italian Formula Junior scene in the mid-1950s . In 1959, during a race in Taraschi , the lifelong friendship with Lorenzo Bandini began . The two fought a few duels on the domestic racetracks. In 1960 Pirocchi crowned his Formula Junior career with overall victory in the Italian championship. His victory at the Grand Prix of Cuba that same year also attracted a lot of attention .
While Bandini's path led single-mindedly to the automobile world championship , Pirocchi's career came to a standstill. In 1961 he competed in his only world championship run. At the Italian Grand Prix he drove a Cooper T53 - Maserati , which the Pescara Racing Club had entered for him. It was the race in which the German Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips had a fatal accident and that ended with the victory of Phil Hill in the Ferrari 156 . Pirocchi crossed the finish line in twelfth place, four laps behind the winner.
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Statistics in the automobile world championship
These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .
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