Vittorio Marzotto

In a Ferrari 500 Mondial , Vittorio Marzotto finished the 1954 Mille Miglia in second place overall

Vittorio Marzotto (born June 13, 1922 in Valdagno ; † February 4, 1999 ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

Vittorio was the fourth of the racing Marzotto brothers. Even Gianni , Paolo and Umberto were in the late 1940s and early 1950s, amateur sports car racing . All came from the Marzotto dynasty , which achieved great prosperity in the textile industry. Today the group belongs to the Valentino Fashion Group .

Vittorio began his career in 1948 at the Mille Miglia , where he finished ninth in the overall standings in 1950 , already as a factory driver for Scuderia Ferrari , in a Ferrari 195S . In 1952 he celebrated his greatest success when he won the Monaco Grand Prix , which was advertised as a sports car race that year , in a Ferrari 225S . In 1954 he saved Ferrari's honor at the Mille Miglia, where he was the only works driver to keep up with the fast Lancia D24 and was only beaten by Alberto Ascari at the end of the race . After finishing sixth overall at the Giro di Sicilia in 1955 , he retired from racing.

At times, the Marzotto brothers in Valdagno in the province of Vicenza maintained their own racing team, the Scuderia Marzotto SpA, under Vittorio Marzotto as well . At the beginning of the 1950s, like his brother Gianni, he was in close contact with the coachbuilder and occasional racing driver Paolo Fontana; From his body shop Carrozzeria Paolo Fontana , Vittorio Marzotto and his brothers had four to five racing cars, depending on their point of view, clad several times, with particularly light, sporty, compact, mostly open bodies.

statistics

Results in sports car races

year	run	team	vehicle	Teammate	Result
1948	Mille Miglia		Lancia Aprilia	Paolo Marzotto	Failed
1950	Targa Florio		Ferrari 166 MM	Sergio Sighinolfi	Failed
1950	Mille Miglia	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 166/195 Inter Fontana Barchetta	Paolo Fontana	Rank 9
1950	Coppa d'Oro di Sicilia		Ferrari 340 America		Failed
1951	Giro di Sicilia	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 212 Export Fontana "Carretto Siciliano"	Paolo Fontana	Overall victory
1951	Mille Miglia	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 340 America	Otello Marchetto	Failed
1951	Coppa della Toscana	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 340 America	Zanuso	Rank 2
1951	Circuito do Porto	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 212 export		Failed
1951	Coppa d'Oro delle Dolomiti	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 340 America		Failed
1952	Giro di Sicilia		Ferrari 225S		Failed
1952	Gran Premio di Siracusa	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 166C	Piero Carini Sergio Sighinolfi	Failed
1952	Mille Miglia	Scuderia Marzotto	Ferrari 225S	Otello Marchetto	Failed
1952	Targa Florio		Ferrari 225S		Failed
1952	Coppa d'Oro delle Dolomiti		Ferrari 225S		Rank 5
1953	Gio di Sicilia	Scuderia Lancia	Lancia Aurelia		Failed
1954	Mille Miglia	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 500 Mondial		Rank 2
1955	Giro di Sicilia	Vittorio Marzotto	Maserati 300S		Rank 6

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1954	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 500 Mondial	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
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Web links

• Vittorio Marzotto at Racingsportscars