Tullio Abbate

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Tullio Abbate (center) and Ayrton Senna during the Monaco Grand Prix

Tullio Abbate (born July 15, 1944 in Tremezzo ; † April 9, 2020 in Milan ) was an Italian racing boat driver ( offshore racing driver ) and shipbuilding entrepreneur .

Life

Tullio Abbate was born as the eldest of three sons of the boat builder Guido Abbate and his wife Paola. At the age of sixteen he was already successful as an offshore racing driver; In 1960 he won the European Powerboat Championship in Cannes as co-pilot. Three years later he won the “Regatta Centomiglia del Lario” in the Campeones de Europa Offshore series with a self-designed and built racing boat .

In 1975 he took over his father's boatyard in Tremezzo, expanded the company and introduced the use of modern fiberglass-reinforced plastic . His starting number 5 from the Centomiglia del Lario regatta became part of the company logo. The company trading as Tullio Abbate Group Srl is based in Mezzegra on Lake Como . It has been delivering 250 to 300 speedboats a year since the mid-1980s. The first successful model was the "Sea Star", of which several thousand copies were built. Other production models followed, the largest of which is 80 feet long.

Abbate is in the winners' lists with over 250 race wins since 1960; he also set several records. On his last one in 1997, it reached more than 223 km / h.

Niki Lauda , Keke Rosberg and Riccardo Patrese went on boat trips with Tullio Abbate; Ayrton Senna gave his name to an Abbate boat project. The 12.90 meter long racing boat is being built under the name Senna 42 Evolution. The Superiority 60 and the Exception 70, which were designed by the industrial designer Giorgetto Giugiaro ( Italdesign Giugiaro ), are considered Tullio Abbate's most innovative projects .

Tullio Abbate died on April 9, 2020 at the age of 75 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection in Milan.

Web links

Commons : Tullio Abbate  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.formulapassion.it/worldnews/addio-a-tullio-abbate-leggenda-della-motonautica-489364.html
  2. ↑ Marco Palumbo: L'addio a Bruno Abbate Lacrime sul “suo” lago. In: Il Giorno July 17, 2008, accessed June 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Gerald Guetat: The quick beauties. In: boote Magazin November 9, 2013, accessed June 4, 2014.
  4. ^ È morto Tullio Abbate pilota e costruttore, simbolo del lago. La Provincia, April 9, 2020, accessed April 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Coronavirus: Lauda buddy Abbate (77) died! , krone.at , accessed on April 10, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Abbate, Tullio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian racing boat driver (offshore racing driver) and shipbuilder
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tremezzo
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2020
Place of death Milan