| Full name | Scuderia Enrico Platé |
|---|---|
| Base |  Switzerland |
| Founder(s) | Enrico Platé |
| Noted staff | Enrico Platé |
| Noted drivers |  Tazio NuvolariToulo de Graffenried B. Bira Harry Schell Louis Chiron |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| First entry | 1950 British Grand Prix |
| Races entered | 12 |
| Constructors | Maserati |
| Engines | Maserati Platé |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Final entry | 1953 Dutch Grand Prix |
Enrico Platé (28 January 1909,Milan,Italy – 2 February 1954,Buenos Aires,Argentina) was amotor racing driver and team manager. Although born in Italy, Platé raced, and latterly ran his racing teamScuderia Enrico Platé, underSwiss nationality. He began his career as a mechanic, but swiftly took to racing cars in addition to repairing them. His best result as a driver was fourth place (albeit also last place) in the 1938Modena Autodrome. Although he did not achieve any notable success in the pre-World War IIvoiturette class, Enrico Platé became a significant and influential figure in post-war grand prix and earlyFormula One racing as a team owner. During his brief career in this role, Platé ranMaseratis for notable drivers such asPrince Bira,Harry Schell and fellow SwissToulo de Graffenried.
Although he did not fully withdraw from driving until 1948, Enrico Platé tasted success as a team owner as early as 1946, when he provided the car that took racing legendTazio Nuvolari to his final grand prix victory, in theAlbi Grand Prix. In 1947Christian Kautz won the prestigiousGrand Prix de la Marne atReims-Gueux in a Platé-enteredMaserati 4CL, and the following yearNello Pagani drove the same car to victory in thePau Grand Prix. Sadly for Scuderia Enrico Platé, the team also tasted tragedy in 1948 when Kautz was killed while driving one of their 4CLs in his home Grand Prix atBremgarten. In 1949 de Graffenried scored Platé's final major race win with victory in theBritish Grand Prix, this time in Platé's newMaserati 4CLT/48. Bira took the lesserSwedish Summer Grand Prix later that season.
With the dominance of first the worksAlfa Romeo and thenFerrari teams, Platé's cars were never front-runners in the early years of the Formula One World Championship. However, minor and non-Championship Grands Prix events saw Scuderia Enrico Platé take a further five race victories between 1950 and 1953. Always loyal to the Maserati marque, Platé's team rebuilt one of the Italian company'sMaserati 4CLT Formula One cars toFormula Two specification for the1952 and1953 seasons, which were run to F2 regulations. The revisions and alterations were sufficiently significant for Maserati to allow Scuderia Platé to enter the car as theMaserati-Platé, making Platé the only Formula One engine manufacturer to originate in Switzerland.1
In the early part of 1953 Platé began to run into financial difficulty. Although he maintained a presence at races, this was usually by preparing cars for de Graffenried rather than as an entrant himself. Enrico Platé met a premature end when he was killed in an accident during a brief return to the track, driving in a minorFormula Libre race inBuenos Aires in 1954.
(key) (Results inbold indicate pole position; results initalics indicate fastest lap; † indicates shared drive.)
| Year | Chassis | Engine(s) | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Maserati4CLT/48 | Maserati 4CLT 1.5L4s | P | GBR | MON | 500 | SUI | BEL | FRA | ITA | |||
| Toulo de Graffenried | Ret | Ret | 6 | 6 | |||||||||
| B. Bira | Ret | 5 | 4 | Ret | |||||||||
| 1951 | Maserati4CLT/48 | Maserati 4CLT 1.5L4s | P | SUI | 500 | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | ITA | ESP | ||
| Louis Chiron | 7 | ||||||||||||
 Harry Schell | 12 | Ret | |||||||||||
| Toulo de Graffenried | Ret | Ret | |||||||||||
| 1952 | Maserati4CLT/48 | Platé 2.0L4 | P | SUI | 500 | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | NED | ITA | ||
| Toulo de Graffenried | 6 | Ret† | 19 | DNQ | |||||||||
| Harry Schell | Ret | Ret† | 17 | ||||||||||
 Alberto Crespo | DNQ | ||||||||||||
| 1953 | MaseratiA6GCM | Maserati A6 2.0L6 | P | ARG | 500 | NED | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | SUI | ITA | |
| Toulo de Graffenried | 5 |
† Indicates shared drive
1 DiscountingSauber's rebranded, British-built engines used during the1993 Formula One season.
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