Roberto Bonomi

Roberto Bonomi

Nation:	Argentina
Automobile world championship
First start:	1960 Argentine Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 Argentine Grand Prix
Constructors
1960  Scuderia Centro Sud
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Roberto Bonomi (born September 30, 1919 in Buenos Aires , † January 10, 1992 ibid) was an Argentine automobile racing driver .

Career

Roberto Bonomi grew up as the son of wealthy parents in Argentina. Bonomi himself owned large estates in his homeland. His motorsport activities were almost exclusively limited to South America, but in the 1950s he competed twice in the Targa Florio . In 1952 and 1953 he was Argentine sports car champion. Different vehicles from the Ferrari brand were used . In 1954 he drove the entire sports car season in a Ferrari 250MM Vignale . Bonomi won several 500 mile road races including the Primavera event, the Costa Nera Lealtad, and the Mendoza race.

In the 1950s he regularly drove the 1000 km race in Buenos Aires with the support of European and American works teams such as Scuderia Ferrari , Maserati and Chevrolet . In 1957 he was seventh overall with Luigi Piotti as a partner on a Maserati 350S .

Towards the end of the 1950s, Bonomi continued to drive in the Argentine sports car championship, but switched from Ferrari to Maserati. His new vehicle was a Maserati 300S .

His only start in the automobile world championship was in 1960 at the Grand Prix of Argentina . Bonomi bought in for a race at the Scuderia Centro Sud . With a Cooper T51 -Maserati, Bonomi started the race from 17th on the grid and finished eleventh, four laps behind.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1960	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1960
	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	WD	withdrawn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
1954	Erwin Goldschmidt	Ferrari 625TF Ferrari 375MM	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
			DNF					DNF
1955		Ferrari 375MM	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
			DNF
1956		Ferrari 375MM	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
			DNF
1957	Maserati	Maserati 350S	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
			5
1958		Osca S1500	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			DNF
1960	Monte Pellegrino	Maserati 300S Fiat-Abarth 750	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
			DNF		DNF

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