Scuderia set colli

Scuderia set colli

Surname	Scuderia set colli
Companies
Company headquarters	Rome , Italy
Team boss	Roberto Lippi
statistics
First Grand Prix	Italy 1961
Last Grand Prix	Italy 1961
Race driven	1
Constructors' championship
Drivers World Championship
Race wins
Pole positions
Fastest laps
Points

The Scuderia Settecolli was an Italian motorsport team operated by the Roman racing driver Roberto Lippi . The racing team registered for three races in the automobile world championship from 1961 to 1963 , but qualified for only one. There were also a few Formula 1 races without world championship status . In Formula 1 it used a De Tomaso racing car .

Team history

The team was founded by the racing driver Roberto Lippi, who was born in Rome in 1926 and is described in some publications as a man's driver . Since the early 1950s, Lippi primarily drove sports car races such as the Mille Miglia before he successfully competed in the newly founded Formula Junior in 1958 and won the first Italian championship title with Stanguellini . Lippi was at times considered the “pioneer of Formula Junior”. After two more years in Formula Junior, Lippi initially unsuccessfully tried to move to higher motorsport classes. He did not get a cockpit for a works team of Formula 1. At the turn of the year 1969/61 Lippi founded his own racing team, Scuderia Settecolli, whose name ( sette colli , German: seven hills) referred to the Seven Hills of Rome , one of the landmarks of Lippi's hometown. Lippi took over a brand-new racing car from De Tomaso, with which he competed in several Formula 1 races alongside De Tomaso's works team and other customers until 1963 . The commitment of Scuderia Settecolli was limited to world championship races and not to world championship races in Italy. The project was largely unsuccessful; it failed mainly because of the uncompetitive De Tomaso cars, whose construction, according to journalists, “touched the limit of amateurism.” As early as 1962, Lippi turned back to Formula Junior. That year he competed as a privateer in the Italian championship. In 1963 he stayed in this series and now also competed here for the Scuderia Settecolli. After the end of the season, Scuderia Settecolli ceased operations and Roberto Lippi gave up his active racing career.

formula 1

The Scuderia Settecolli was registered for several Formula 1 races from 1961 to 1963.

Emergency vehicle

Scuderia Settecolli used a De Tomaso chassis in Formula 1. The Italian racing car manufacturer designed the Isis Formula Junior car in 1958 and derived the De Tomaso F2 Formula 2 chassis from it, which appeared in 1960. The 1961 season was the first year in which Formula 1 was advertised according to the 1.5-liter regulations: instead of the previous maximum 2.5-liter engines, there were now only engines with a displacement of up to 1.5 liters authorized. From now on, Formula 1 complied with the regulations that had applied to Formula 2 until 1960 . De Tomaso took this rule change as an opportunity to convert his Formula 2 car for the new Formula 1. Based on the model of the F2, a total of five more or less identical copies of the De Tomaso F1 were built in the winter of 1960/61 . Two of them (chassis 004 and 005) stayed with De Tomaso, whose works team brought them to the start in isolated cases until 1963, and two more (001 and 003) were taken over by Scuderia Serenissima . Finally, the 002 vehicle was bought by Roberto Lippi for Scuderia Settecolli.

The Scuderia Settecolli equipped the De Tomaso F1-002 with different engines over the years:

• In 1961 and 1962 the F1-002 was powered by an OSCA engine that De Tomaso had tuned. Its power is specified with 158 hp, which roughly corresponded to the power of the weakest four-cylinder engines from Coventry Climax . During the 1962 season it became apparent that the engines were not competitive.
• In early 1963, Settecolli initially equipped the F1-002 with an inline four-cylinder Maserati engine (Tipo 150S); in this version the car was only reported once.
• A few months later the same chassis appeared for two races with a six-cylinder Ferrari engine from the ( Tipo 156 ).

The races

1961

In the new environment of Formula 1 based on the previous Formula 2, Scuderia Settecolli made its debut in May 1961 at the Gran Premio di Napoli , a Formula 1 race without world championship status on a street circuit in Naples , for which 13 drivers were registered. Settecolli reported Giovanni Alberti as a pilot here once . He retired after 36 laps with engine failure. Roberto Lippi made his debut in set collis De Tomaso F1-002 at the Gran Premio di Modena 1961 , which was also free of the world championship and which took place on September 3, 1961 in the immediate vicinity of De Tomaso's factory. In contrast to Roberto Bussinello in the F1-004 of the De Tomaso works team, Lippi missed the qualification with the Settecolli car in Modena . The 1961 Italian Grand Prix, which took place in Monza a week later, was the first Formula 1 World Championship run in which Scuderia Settecolli took part. The organizer allowed 32 cars. Lippi qualified for the last place on the grid in the Settecolli-De-Tomaso. In his fastest training lap, he was more than 22 seconds slower than Wolfgang von Trips in the factory Ferrari, who took pole position. Roberto Bussinello in the factory De-Tomaso and Nino Vaccarella in the De Tomaso of the Scuderia Serenissima were seven and 13 seconds faster than Lippi in practice. Both had Alfa Romeo engines. Lippi retired on the first lap with engine failure. The third and final outing of the Scuderia Settecolli this year was the Coppa Italia , a race without world championship status in Vallelunga . Only ten drivers were registered here. Lippi qualified for sixth place on the grid. He finished fourth in the first run of the race and fifth in the second. He finished fifth in the overall standings.

1962

In 1962, Scuderia Settecolli entered three races with an unchanged car and Roberto Lippi as the driver. It all started with the 1962 Gran Premio di Napoli , which was free of the world championship , and in which Lippi missed the qualification. Three months later, Settecolli signed up for the first edition of the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo 1962 at the Sicilian Autodromo di Pergusa , to which 13 drivers competed. Lippi's best practice time was more than 11 seconds longer than that of Lorenzo Bandini , who took pole position in the factory Ferrari. With her Lippi qualified for position 11 on the grid. He finished sixth, but was six laps behind the winner Bandini. Then came the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, the only world championship run that the team entered this year. Here Lippi missed the qualification. In practice he was over 18 seconds slower than polesitter Jim Clark . That was enough for 28th place on the grid. However, the organizers only allowed the fastest 21 vehicles.

1963

In 1963, the Scuderia Settecolli registered again for three Formula 1 races. The first race of the year was the Gran Premio di Roma in Vallelunga, to which four of the five De Tomaso F1 competed. They all had different engines. The private drivers "Condor" (F1-003) and Roberto Campello (F1-001) had Alfa Romeo and OSCA engines, respectively, while De Tomaso's works team had equipped the F1-005 with a Ford engine tuned by Holbay. Scuderia Settecolli had replaced the previous OSCA engine in the F1-002 with a Maserati engine. With him Lippi managed to qualify. He was fourth in the first run and fifth in the second. Lippi took fourth place in the overall standings. That was the best result that a De Tomaso F1 achieved in a Formula 1 race. For the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo , Scuderia Settecolli replaced the Maserati engine with a V-six-cylinder from Ferrari. With him Lippi missed the qualification in Enna . Lippi also failed to qualify at the Italian Grand Prix , the team's only world championship run this year. He was more than 17 seconds slower than the last qualified driver ( Giancarlo Baghetti in the problematic ATS 100 ) and 26 seconds slower than the polesitter John Surtees in the factory Ferrari. After this race, the Scuderia Settecolli's F1-002 no longer appeared and the team gave up its Formula 1 involvement.

Formula Junior

In 1963, Scuderia Settecolli was primarily involved in the Italian Formula Junior Championship . The regular driver was Roberto Lippi, who drove a De Sanctis 62 and later a Cooper T59 with a Ford engine. Sometimes other vehicles for drivers such as Romano Orsola , Riccardo Sambuco or Lorenzo Vecler were reported. The team's best result was Lippi's second place at the Trofeo Luigi Musso 1963 in Vallelunga. With 56 evaluated points, Settecolli driver Roberto Lippi finished the 1963 championship in fifth place.

Results

Formula 1 world championship

season	chassis	driver	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	Points
1961													-
	F1-002 OSCA	R. Lippi							DNF
1962													-
	F1-002 OSCA	R. Lippi							DNQ
1963													-
	F1-002 Ferrari	R. Lippi							DNQ

Formula 1 races without world championship status

season	chassis	driver	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27
1961
	F1-002 OSCA	G. Alberti									DNA		DNF
		R. Lippi																			DNQ					5
1962
	F1-002 OSCA	R. Lippi									DNQ						6th
1963
	F1-002 Maserati	R. Lippi								4th
	F1-002 Ferrari												DNQ

literature

• Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9 .
• David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 .
• David Hodges: Racing cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
• Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-1965 , Motor Racing Publications 1998, ISBN 1-899870-39-3 .
• Pierre Ménard: La Grande Encyclopédie de la Formule 1 , 2nd edition, St. Sulpice, 2000, ISBN 2-940125-45-7 .
• Daniele Pozzi: De Tomaso: From Buenos Aires to Modena, the History of an Automotive Visionary , Dalton Watson Fine Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1854432780

Web links

• Statistics on Formula 1 outings by Scuderia Settecolli
• Statistics on Formula 1 outings by Scuderia Settecolli

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Daniele Pozzi: De Tomaso: From Buenos Aires to Modena, the History of an Automotive Visionary , Dalton Watson Fine Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1854432780 , p. 86.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography of Roberto Lippis on the website www.f1rejects.com (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
3. ^ David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 78.
4. ↑ Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-1965 , Motor Racing Publications 1998, ISBN 1899870393 , p. 10.
5. ^ Mark Whitelock: 1½-liter Grand Prix Racing: Low Power, High Tech , Veloce Publishing Ltd, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84584-016-7 , p. 327.
6. ↑ Statistics of the Gran Premio di Napoli on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
7. ↑ Statistics of the Gran Premio di Modena 1961 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
8. ↑ ^{a b} Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-1965 , Motor Racing Publications 1998, ISBN 1899870393 , p. 110.
9. ↑ Statistics from Coppa Italia 1961 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
10. ↑ Statistics of the Gran Premio di Napoli 1962 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
11. ↑ Statistics of the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo 1962 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
12. ↑ ^{a b} Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-1965 , Motor Racing Publications 1998, ISBN 1899870393 , p. 111.
13. ↑ Statistics of the Gran Premio di Roma 1963 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
14. ↑ Statistics of the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo 1963 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
15. ↑ Statistics of the Trofeo Luigi Musso 1963 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
16. ↑ In total, Lippi scored 60 points. Since only the five best results could be considered due to the regulations, Lippi was rated with 56 points. See Roberto Lippi's biography on the website www.f1rejects.com (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
17. ↑ Overview of the European Formula Junior races in 1963 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).
18. ↑ Results of the Italian Formula Junior Championship 1963 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version) (accessed on March 29, 2019).