Teodoro Zeccoli

Teodoro Zeccoli 1971

Teodoro Zeccoli (born October 15, 1929 in Lugo di Romagna , † March 6, 2018 in Imola ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

Teodoro Zeccoli began his career in the late 1950s as a hill climb driver and became a test and works driver for Abarth in 1961 . For Abarth he drove mountain and sports car races. He also made his debut for the Italian racing team in 1961 at the Le Mans 24-hour race . With his partner Jean Vinatier , however, he dropped out prematurely after an engine failure.

Zeccoli was an excellent test driver and was hired by Alfa Romeo in this capacity in 1967 to carry out the test work with the new Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 and the Stradale version. It was also Zeccoli who celebrated his first race win with the Tipo 33 at the hill climb in Fleron, Belgium in 1967.

Zeccoli competed in numerous sports car races and in 1969 in the North American Racing Team's Ferrari 250LM achieved his best position in Le Mans with eighth overall.

The name Zeccoli is also associated with a tragic accident. In 1964 he drove an ATS 2500 GT together with the Portuguese Mário de Araújo Cabral at the 12-hour race in Reims . The race took place on public roads, which were reopened after the training times and between training and the race. Zeccoli had an accident on the Garenne Straight during practice at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3rd. The car was parked on the edge of the track. At 11 p.m. a minibus collided with the ATS. The driver of the car was killed and seven passengers were injured.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1961	Abarth & Cie	Fiat-Abarth 750S Spyder	Jean Vinatier		failure	Engine failure
1962	Roger Masson	Fiat-Abarth 750 TwinCam	Roger Masson		failure	Engine failure
1964	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine M63	Roger Masson		Rank 20
1965	Autodelta SpA	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ / 2	José Rosinski		failure	accident
1969	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 250LM	Sam Posey	Ricardo Rodríguez-Cavazos	Rank 8
1970	Autodelta SpA	Alfa Romeo T33 / 3	Carlo Facetti		failure	accident
1973	Scuderia Brescia Corse	Alfa Romeo TT33 / 3	Carlo Facetti	Marsilio Pasotti	Rank 15
1974	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 312P	Jean-Claude Andruet		Rank 9

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1965	Autodelta SpA	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ	Bruno Deserti	Rank 27
1966	Autodelta SpA	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2	Giacomo Russo	failure	Oil leak
1967	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	Andrea de Adamich	failure	suspension

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	21st	22nd
1959	GS Savio	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				DNF
1960	Scuderia Castellotti	Lancia Appia	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
					33
1961	Abarth	Fiat-Abarth 750	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
						DNF
1962	Abarth Roger Masson	Fiat-Abarth 700 Fiat-Abarth 850TC	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
								6th		DNF				10
1963	Vittorio Venturi	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
						DNF
1964	Scuderia Centro Sud Alpine	ATS 2500 Alpine M63	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
					DNF						20th											DNF
1965	Autodelta Iso Rivolta	Alfa Romeo TZ Alfa Romeo GTA Iso Grifo	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
				27			DNF		DNF		DNF	7th		DNF					29
1966	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo TZ	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
				DNF	11	13		21st
1967	Autodelta Ottorino Volonterio	Alfa Romeo T33 Alfa Romeo TZ	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
				DNF	DNF			5
1968	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			7th
1969	NART Autodelta	Ferrari 250LM Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
										8th		DNF
1970	Autodelta	Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						DNF			DNF		DNF
1971	Herbert Mueller	Ferrari 512S	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
							8th
1973	Ennio Bonomelli Scuderia Brescia Corse	Porsche Carrera RSR Alfa Romeo T33	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
						DNF				15th
1974	NART F. J. Maka Racing	Ferrari 312P De Tomaso Pantera	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
							9		DNF
1976	Equator Cottages Bruno Ottomano	Alfa Romeo T33	MUG	VAL	ONLY	MON	SIL	IMO	ONLY	ZEL	BY	WAT	MOS	DIJ	DIJ	SAL
								9			DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissedre: 24 hours of mans . 1923-1992. 2 volumes. Édition d'Art JB Barthelemy, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Teodoro Zeccoli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Teodoro Zeccoli at racingsportscars.com (English)
• Teodoro Zeccoli at alfasport.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dave Hammond: Teodoro Zeccoli (1929-2018). In: vintageracecar.com. March 20, 2018, Retrieved May 18, 2018 (Spanish).