Spartaco Dini

The ASA 411 from Giuseppe Dalla Torre and Spartaco Dini at the Targa Florio 1966

Spartaco Dini (born August 25, 1943 in Greve ; † January 16, 2019 ) was an Italian racing car driver .

Career

Spartaco Dini began his motorsport career in the early 1960s as a driver in Italian monoposto junior formulas. He drove in Formula 3 and Formula 2 and, as De Tomaso's works driver , was also active in the Formula 2 European Championship in the early 1970s .

However, he achieved his greatest successes as a touring and sports car driver . In 1969 he won the overall ranking of Division II of the European Touring Car Championship on a factory Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA . In 1968 , he finished fifth in the overall ranking of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in another factory car from the Milan-based company, a Tipo 33 . In 1966 he made his debut in this endurance race . After almost ten years of absence from international motorsport, he returned at the end of the 1970s and competed four more times at Le Mans. He also regularly competed in sports car races again.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1966	ASA	ASA RB613	Ignazio Giunti		failure	Clutch damage
1968	Autodelta SpA	Alfa Romeo TT33 / 2	Carlo Facetti		Rank 5
1977	Luigi Racing	BMW 3.0 CSL	Jean Xhenceval	Pierre Dieudonné	Rank 8 and class win
1978	Pozzi-Thompson JMS Racing	Ferrari 512 BB	Jean-Claude Andruet		failure	Engine failure
1979	Charles Pozzi	Ferrari 512 BB	Jean-Claude Andruet		failure	Engine failure
1980	Scuderia Supercar Bellcantauto	Ferrari 512 BB LM	Fabrizio Violati	Maurizio Micangeli	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1964		Alfa Romeo Giulia	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
								215
1965	Piero Conte	Alfa Romeo Giulia Ford Cortina	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
												13				16
1966	ASA Autodelta	ASA 411 ASA RB613 Alfa Romeo GTA	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
						DNF			DNF	DNF
1967	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
											DNF
1968	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo GTA Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			DNF									5
1969	SCAR Autostrada	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						DNF
1970	SCAR Autostrada	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						DNF
1971	Riccardone	Abarth 2000 p	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
							DNF
1972	Abarth-Osella	Abarth 2000SP	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			DNF
1977	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SIL	ONLY	VAL	BY	WAT	EST	LEC	MOS	IMO	SAL	BRH	HOK	VAL
										DNF		3				3
1978	Charles Pozzi	Ferrari 512 BB	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	SIL	ONLY	LEM	MIS	DAY	WAT	VAL	ROD
										DNF
1979	JMS Racing Classics Auto Francorchamps	Ferrari 512 BB BMW 530i	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	BRH	ROA	VAL	ELS
			53								DNF					13
1980	Scuderia Supercar Bellancauto	Ferrari 512 BB	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
							DNF				DNF
1981	Scuderia Supercar Bellancauto	Ferrari 512 BB	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
						15th

Web links

Commons : Spartaco Dini  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Spartaco Dini at driverdb.com (Retrieved February 28, 2010)