Roberto Lippi

Roberto Lippi

Nation:	Italy
Automobile world championship
First start:	1961 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1961 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1961 Scuderia Settecolli
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Roberto Lippi (born October 17, 1926 in Rome , † October 31, 2011 in Anzio ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

Roberto Lippi was already successful as a sports car driver in the 1950s. In 1955 he shared the wheel of a Maserati with Giorgio Scarlatti at the Targa Florio . The duo reached eighth place in the overall ranking. In 1957 he secured the Italian sports car championship in the class up to 750 cc. In the same year he took on a Stanguellini also the 24-hour race at Le Mans in part. After driving 67 laps, he had to give up the race due to a defect in the ignition system.

Lippi became famous in Italy with the introduction of Formula Junior in 1958. He won the very first race of this racing formula in his home country and won the championship at the end of the year.

Count's ambitions in the automobile world championship were less successful . Between 1961 and 1963 Lippi competed for the private racing team Scuderia Settecolli , which had acquired a De Tomaso F1 - specifically the second of five chassis produced - from De Tomaso. In 1961 and 1962 the car was powered by a 1.5 liter four-cylinder engine from Osca . In 1963 Lippi first switched to a Maserati engine before installing a Ferrari 156 engine for the final event, the Italian Grand Prix.

Between 1961 and 1963 Lippi registered with the Scuderia Settecolli for three world championship races and five other races, which however did not have world championship status.

Of his efforts to the Grand Prix of Italy the years 1961 , 1962 and 1963 in Monza qualifying, only the first attempt was successful. Lippi was able to qualify as 32nd and last, but retired early due to an engine failure. In 1962 and 1963, Lippi clearly missed the qualification.

Apart from these world championship races, the Scuderia Settecolli and Lippi registered for the Gran Premio di Modena and Coppa Italia in 1961, in 1962 for the Gran Premio di Napoli and the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo and in 1963 for the Gran Premio di Roma in Vallelunga . A total of six De Tomaso designs were registered at the event in Vallelunga, including two for the Scuderia De Tomaso works team . Lippi finished fourth here. He was the best De Tomaso driver in this race and also achieved the best result of his Formula 1 career here.

After Lippi also competed in Formula Junior in 1963 together with Scuderia Settecolli, he ended his active racing career in 1964. He later dealt with driver training.

statistics

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 .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1961	Scuderia set colli	De Tomaso F1-002	OSCA 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1961
							DNF
1962
							DNQ
1963
							DNQ

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
1957	Automobili Stanguellini	Stanguellini Prototipo	Francesco Siracusa	failure	Ignition damage

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953		Fiat 1100	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
				141
1954		Fiat 1100	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
					86
1956	Alberto Ralli	Stanguellini 750 Sport	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
					137
1957	Stanguellini	Stanguellini Prototipo	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
							DNF
1961	Milano Racing Club	Lotus Eleven	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
							DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

• Roberto Lippi at motorsport-total.com
• Roberto Lippi's biography on the website www.f1rejects.com
• Image: Roberto Lippi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on oldracingcars.com (English)