Scuderia Finotto

**Scuderia Finotto**
Surname	Scuderia Finotto
Companies	Scuderia Finotto
Company headquarters	Italy
Team boss	Jürg Dubler Martino Finotto;
statistics
First Grand Prix	Belgium 1974
Last Grand Prix	Italy 1974
Race driven	4 (1 start)
Constructors' championship	0
Drivers World Championship	0
Race wins	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
Points	0

The Scuderia Finotto was an Italian motorsport team that entered several races in the Formula 1 World Championship in 1974 . Originally intended for use by Silvio Moser , the history of the team after his death was shaped by emergency solutions. Even by the standards of the 1970s, the racing stable was exceptionally poorly financed and organized. He only managed to participate in a race. The best- known driver of the team was the later Renault sports director and team owner Gérard Larrousse , who contested his only Formula 1 race with Finotto - and the team's only race.

history

One of the initiators of the project: Silvio Moser

The founding of the racing team goes back to the Italian racing driver Martino Finotto , who was one of the most famous touring car drivers in his country in the 1970s. At the end of 1973 Finotto bought two older Brabham BT42 Formula 1 vehicles with the intention of competing in Formula 1 with them in 1974. After a test drive in November 1973, Finotto came to the conclusion that Formula 1 was not for him. He then offered his cars to other racing drivers. One of them was Silvio Moser from Ticino , who had participated in 12 Formula 1 world championship races from 1966 to 1971 , including a Bellasi- type vehicle specially designed for him . After the failure of the Bellasi project, Moser initially returned to Formula 2 , but continued to pursue the idea of re-entering Formula 1. Martino Finotto, with whom Moser had been friends for several years, gave him a chance to do so. With the financial support of the Swiss entrepreneur Bretscher, Moser leased the two Finotto Brabhams. The agreement stipulated that Moser should finance and organize the race himself.

Moser entered the cars for the first European race of the year, the Spanish Grand Prix in Jarama for the Bretscher Racing Team . He was designated as the driver himself; there are rumors that Moser also wanted to start the second car for the Swede Reine Wisell . A week before the race in Spain, Moser had a serious accident at the 1000 km race in Monza , so that he could not take part in the Spanish Grand Prix. Moser died of his injuries a few weeks after the accident. Martino Finotto then decided to use the Brabhams under his own name for Paydriver during 1974 . Bretscher continued to be sponsored, but it is doubtful whether he actually provided substantial support to the team.

organization structure

The team had a weak infrastructure. It had few mechanics. The former Swiss racing driver Jürg Dubler was temporarily active as the team's organizer. The Scuderia Finotto did not have its own premises. The team used an automobile workshop in Buscate for occasional work, and the engines were revised at the tuning company Novamotor. There are reports that Scuderia Finotto had very few spare parts available and that the mechanics had to repeatedly steal parts from other teams.

cars

Brabham BT42 (in the livery of the factory team)

Scuderia Finotto owned two Brabham BT42 chassis in the 1974 season. These were the chassis with the numbers 05 and 06. Both were manufactured in 1973 and used by the Brabham factory team. Wilson Fittipaldi drove the BT42 / 05 and Rolf Stommelen the BT42 / 06 . In all four races in which Scuderia Finotto competed, the team only used the BT42 / 06; the BT42 / 05 was not moved in 1974.

Three Cosworth DFV eight-cylinder engines served as drive , the tires came from Firestone .

Races

Contested the only Formula 1 round of the Scuderia Finotto: Gérard Larrousse

The Scuderia Finotto first raced at the Belgian Grand Prix in 1974 . The French long-distance driver Gérard Larrousse bought something for this race. He qualified for 28th place on the grid, 4.4 seconds behind. In the race he retired after 53 of 85 laps due to a puncture.

The team reported again for the subsequent race in Monaco . In the run-up to the race, the organizers rejected the team's entry, so that Scuderia Finotto did not appear on the official entry list for the 1974 Monaco Grand Prix.

After Finotto skipped the Grand Prix of Sweden and the Netherlands , it competed again in France in July 1974 . Again Gérard Larrousse reported it as the driver. Larrousse missed qualification in his home race. Larrousse was the slowest driver in practice, 4.5 seconds behind Niki Lauda's pole time .

Andy Sutcliffe bought Scuderia Finotto for the subsequent British Grand Prix . Here, too, the organizers rejected the team's report in advance. The same applies to the German Grand Prix , for which Finotto wanted to get the German racing driver Manfred Mohr (in some sources incorrectly referred to as Manfred Möhr) to the start.

However, Helmut Koinigg's entry for the Austrian Grand Prix was accepted. The Austrian took part in the training sessions. He was the slowest of all 31 drivers. With a gap of 5.2 seconds behind Lauda's pole time, he clearly missed qualifying.

The last Grand Prix outing of Scuderia Finotto was the Italian Grand Prix . The team reported here Carlo Facetti and Jean-Louis Lafosse , who, like Manfred Mohr, were friends of Martino Finotto. Ultimately, Lafosse did not run. The reasons for this are unclear. According to some sources, the organizers did not accept his report, according to others, the team withdrew it in favor of Facetti. Only Facetti is on the official entry list. Facetti missed qualifying in Monza by 0.8 seconds.

Race results

driver	chassis	5	9	12	13	Points	rank
Automobile World Championship 1974						0	-
France G. Larrousse	Brabham BT42	DNF	DNQ
Austria H. Koinigg				DNQ
Italy Carlo Facetti					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)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	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

swell

Felix Muelas, Mattijs Diepraam: Bellasi: She's beautiful, oh yes! History of Bellasi and Scuderia Finotto on the 8w.forix.com website
Ulrich Schwab: Grand Prix 1974. The races for the 1974 Automobile World Championship . ISBN 3-87943-356-9
Jürg Dubler: Formula 3 inside. The crazy years 1965-1970 . Diary and reports of a racing driver. ISBN 978-3-905769-15-9

Individual evidence

↑ Image of both vehicles at http://forums.autosport.com/ (accessed on October 13, 2013).
↑ Racing history of the Brabham BT42 on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).
↑ Entry on the website www.racingsportscars.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).
↑ Entry list on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).
↑ Starting grid for the 1974 French Grand Prix on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).
↑ Sutcliffe's racing statistics on the website www.racingsportscars.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).
↑ For example with Felix Muelas, Mattijs Diepraam: Bellasi: She's beautiful, oh yes! History of Bellasi and Scuderia Finotto on the 8w.forix.com website
^ Starting list for the Austrian Grand Prix on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).
^ So Schwab: Grand Prix 1974. The races for the 1974 Automobile World Championship, p. 134.
↑ Entry list for the 1974 Italian Grand Prix on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[1] Image of both vehicles at http://forums.autosport.com/ (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[2] Racing history of the Brabham BT42 on the website www.oldracingcars.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[3] Entry on the website www.racingsportscars.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[4] Entry list on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[5] Starting grid for the 1974 French Grand Prix on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[6] Sutcliffe's racing statistics on the website www.racingsportscars.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[7] For example with Felix Muelas, Mattijs Diepraam: Bellasi: She's beautiful, oh yes! History of Bellasi and Scuderia Finotto on the 8w.forix.com website

[8] Starting list for the Austrian Grand Prix on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).

[9] So Schwab: Grand Prix 1974. The races for the 1974 Automobile World Championship, p. 134.

[10] Entry list for the 1974 Italian Grand Prix on the website www.motorsport-total.com (accessed on October 13, 2013).