Ludovico Scarfiotti | |
|---|---|
 Scarfiotti in 1966 | |
| Born | (1933-10-18)18 October 1933 |
| Died | 8 June 1968(1968-06-08) (aged 34) |
| Cause of death | Injuries sustained whilst hillclimbing in a Porsche 910 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |  Italian |
| Active years | 1963–1968 |
| Teams | Ferrari,Eagle,Cooper |
| Entries | 13 (10 starts) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 1 |
| Podiums | 1 |
| Careerpoints | 17 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| First entry | 1963 Dutch Grand Prix |
| First win | 1966 Italian Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 1968 Monaco Grand Prix |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
| Years | 1960–1967 |
| Teams | Ferrari,Serenissima |
| Best finish | 1st(1963) |
| Class wins | 2(1963,1967) |
Ludovico Scarfiotti (18 October 1933 – 8 June 1968) was an Italianracing driver, who competed inFormula One from1963 to1968. Scarfiotti won the1966 Italian Grand Prix withFerrari. Inendurance racing, Scarfiotti won the24 Hours of Le Mans and the12 Hours of Sebring, both in 1963 with Ferrari.
Born inTurin, Scarfiotti was the grandson ofLodovico Scarfiotti, co-founder and former president ofFiat. He initially competed insportscar racing, racing forFerrari from 1960 onwards. He finished third in the 19621000 km of Paris before winning the24 Hours of Le Mans in1963 alongsideLorenzo Bandini, driving theFerrari 250 P. His victory at Le Mans—along with his win at the12 Hours of Sebring—prompted his Formula One debut with Ferrari at the1963 Dutch Grand Prix. Scarfiotti made sporadic appearances for the team over the next five seasons, including his sole win at theItalian Grand Prix in1966. He added to his sportscar success with a runner-up finish at Le Mans in1967, as well as at the24 Hours of Daytona. After a one-off appearance forEagle in1967, Scarfiotti signed forCooper thefollowing season.
Amotorsports competitor for a decade, Scarfiotti had also won thesportscar class of theEuropean Hillclimb Championship in 1962 and 1965. In June 1968, Scarfiotti died at ahillclimbing event in theGerman Alps when he crashed hisPorsche 910.
Scarfiotti was born inTurin. Scarfiotti was associated with cars from his youth. His grandfather was the first president and one of the nine founders of theFiat automobile company.[1]
Scarfiotti competed in the 1,000 Kilometres de Paris sports car race in October 1962. He finished third with teammateColin Davis. The event was won byPedro Rodríguez andRicardo Rodríguez driving a Ferrari.[2] Partnered withLorenzo Bandini, Scarfiotti was victorious in the24 Hours of Le Mans in June 1963. Their factory Ferrari achieved an average speed of 117.99 miles per hour over a distance of 2,832 miles (4,558 km). The victory was worth almost $20,000 in various prize money along with prestige, and gave Ferrari its fourth consecutive Le Mans victory.[3]
In 1965,John Surtees and Scarfiotti shared a Ferrari 330 P2 Spyder which gave themarque a fourth consecutive victory at the1000km Nürburgring race. They led throughout the 44 laps, posting a winning time of 6 hours, 53 minutes, and 5 seconds, for an average speed of 90.46 mph (145.58 km/h).[4] Scarfiotti and Bandini drove a 2-litreDino 206 S to second place in the 1966 running of the 1,000 kilometre Nürburgring in which first place went toPhil Hill andJoakim Bonnier driving a 5.4-litreChevrolet-poweredChaparral. The Dino was 90 seconds behind the Chaparral that debuted the automatic transmission in European competition.[5]
Surtees severed relations with the Ferrari racing team following their decision to replace him with Scarfiotti at the1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. Scarfiotti would go on to finish 31st, retiring after 123 laps. Scarfiotti joinedMike Parkes in a Ferrari P4 for the1000 km Spa in May 1967. They finished a lap behindJacky Ickx and Richard Thompson, who drove aFordMirage (race car). The winning team averaged 120.5 mph (193.9 km/h) and posted a time of 5 hours, 9 minutes, 46.5 seconds.[6]
Teamed with Mike Parkes, Scarfiotti took the new Ferrari P4 coupe to second place behind the sister car (a P4 spyder) driven by Lorenzo Bandini and Chris Amon at the 24 Hours of Daytona, with Ferrari taking the first three positions. The same result took place at the Monza 1,000 km in April. Scarfiotti, again teamed with Parkes finished second at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, this time behind the Ford Mark IV driven by A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney. Scarfiotti raced a Ferrari factory car in the September 1967 200-mileCanadian-American Challenge Cup race held on a 2.85-mile (4.59 km) course nearBridgehampton, New York. His sponsor was theNorth American Racing Team ofLuigi Chinetti.[7]
AfterGünter Klass was killed in July 1967, Ferrari retired the two-litre Dino 206S prototypes that were also used in hillclimbing. After a fast1967 24 Hours of Le Mans race won by a 7-litre V8-powered Ford ahead of Scarfiotti/Parkes, the big engines were banned for the 1968 WSC season in which prototypes were limited to max 3-litre engines, same size as in F1, but those were designed to last for 300 km, not 1000 km or 24 hours. Ferrari was forced to retire the 4-litre V12 Ferrari P series, and in protest to the rule change, did not enter the1968 World Sportscar Championship. With the Germans also being active in hillclimbing, Scarfiotti joined Porsche.
Scarfiotti entered the 1968Targa Florio, but wrecked hisPorsche 907 (#230) on the first day of qualifying and was forced to race with Porsche's T-car[8] which did not last the 720-kilometre-long (450 mi) road race.
Enzo Ferrari signed Scarfiotti to the Ferrari Formula One team of drivers for1963 along with Surtees,Willy Mairesse, Bandini, andNino Vaccarella.[9] Scarfiotti placed sixth in the second Ferrari in the1963 Dutch Grand Prix atZandvoort. He was a lap behind victorJim Clark in aLotus. John Surtees piloted the first Ferrari to third place behindDan Gurney in aBrabham. Scarfiotti finished fifth in the non-championship1965 Syracuse Grand Prix on the island of Sicily.[10]
Scarfiotti became the first Italian in fifteen years to win theItalian Grand Prix when he drove his Ferrari to a track record speed of 136.7 mph (220.0 km/h) at the1966 event. As of the end of the 2024 Formula One season, Scarfiotti is also the last Italian to win it.
Following the death of Bandini from burns sustained during the1967 Monaco Grand Prix, Ferrari entered two F1 cars for Scarfiotti and Parkes in the non-championship1967 Syracuse Grand Prix. Scarfiotti drove a 1966 3-litreFerrari 312 whereas Parkes drove a 1967 with the 1966 nose to accommodate his long frame.[11] They shared the victory when they crossed the finish line in an unusual dead heat. They were clocked at 113.65 mph (182.90 km/h),[clarification needed] recording an official time of 1 hour 40 minutes 58 seconds for the 191.2-mile (307.7 km) race.[12] At the GPs of Zandvoort and Spa, both Parkes and Scarfiotti were part of a three-car Scuderia, with a 4-5-6 place finish at the Dutch GP suggesting equal speed of these three drivers, but both Parkes and Scarfiotti were one lap behind Amon, despite Parkes qualifying only 0.1 sec slower than Amon, with Scarfiotti being a full second off pace. At Spa, Parkes had a career-ending accident, while Scarfiotti was 4 laps behind and not classified. For the rest of the 1967 F1 WC Season, Ferrari entered only one car, for Chris Amon. For his home GP at Monza, the winner of the 1966 event secured a drive in the secondAll American RacersEagle Mk1, a quite promising move, as Dan Gurney had won the race at the very fast Spa circuit. However, both Weslake V12 failed early in the race.
With Ferrari hiring Jacky Ickx and Amon for 1968, there was no place for Scarfiotti, who entered F1 races for Cooper instead.Brian Redman and Scarfiotti came in third and fourth respectively at the1968 Spanish Grand Prix inJarama, both driving forCooper. In his final Formula One appearance, Scarfiotti placed fourth in the1968 Monaco Grand Prix, an event marked by mechanical breakdowns that eliminated 11 of 16 starters before the race was completed.[13]
Ludovico Scarfiotti died in 1968 at ahillclimbing event on the Roßfeldhöhenringstraße nearBerchtesgaden, Germany, in the German Alps. He became the third Grand Prix driver to die in 1968, followingJim Clark andMike Spence. Scarfiotti wrecked hisPorsche 910 during trials when the car veered abruptly off the Rossfeldstrasse track and catapulted ten yards down a tree-covered slope. The Porsche hung in the trees and Scarfiotti was thrown from the cockpit. He was discovered, badly injured, fifty yards away. He died in an ambulance of numerous fractures.Huschke von Hanstein, the team manager of Porsche, stated that he had never been associated with a fatal accident during the eighteen years he had been in charge of the team. 60 yards (55 m) of burned rubber braking indicated that Scarfiotti had slammed on his brakes at the final moment.
Scarfiotti was married to Ida Benignetti and had two children from a previous relationship.[1]
(key) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | WDC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari156 | Ferrari 178 1.5V6 | MON | BEL WD | NED 6 | FRA DNS | GBR | GER | ITA | USA | MEX | RSA | 16th | 1 | ||
| 1964 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari156 | Ferrari 178 1.5V6 | MON | NED | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA 9 | USA | MEX | NC | 0 | ||
| 1965 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari1512 | Ferrari 207 1.5V12 | RSA | MON | BEL | FRA | GBR | NED | GER | ITA | USA | MEX DNS | NC | 0 | ||
| 1966 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari246 | Ferrari 228 2.4V6 | MON | BEL | FRA | GBR | NED | GER Ret | 10th | 9 | ||||||
| Ferrari312/66 | Ferrari 218 3.0V12 | ITA 1 | USA | MEX | |||||||||||||
| 1967 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari312/67 | Ferrari 242 3.0V12 | RSA | MON | NED 6 | BEL NC | FRA | GBR | GER | CAN | 21st | 1 | ||||
| Anglo American Racers | EagleT1G | Weslake 58 3.0V12 | ITA Ret | USA | MEX | ||||||||||||
| 1968 | Cooper Car Company | CooperT86 | Maserati 10/F1 3.0V12 | RSA Ret | 16th | 6 | |||||||||||
| CooperT86B | BRM P101 3.0V12 | ESP 4 | MON 4 | BEL | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | ITA | CAN | USA | MEX | |||||
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position)(Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Scuderia Centro Sud | BRMP578 | BRM P56 1.5V8 | ROC NC | SYR 5 | SMT | INT | MED | RAN |
| 1967 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari312 | Ferrari 242 3.0V12 | ROC 5 | SPC | INT | SYR 1 | OUL | ESP |
Source:[16] | |||||||||
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Scuderia Ferrari |  Pedro Rodríguez | Ferrari 250 TRI/60 | S3.0 | 22 | DNF (Out of fuel) | |
| 1961 | Scuderia Serenissima | Nino Vaccarella | Maserati Tipo 63 | S3.0 | 53 | DNF (Engine) | |
| 1962 | S.E.F.A.C.Ferrari | Giancarlo Baghetti | Ferrari 268 SP | E2.0 | 230 | DNF (Clutch) | |
| 1963 | SpAFerrari SEFAC | Lorenzo Bandini | Ferrari 250 P | P3.0 | 339 | 1st | 1st |
| 1964 | SpAFerrari SEFAC |  Mike Parkes | Ferrari 275 P | P4.0 | 71 | DNF (Oil pump) | |
| 1965 | SpAFerrari SEFAC | John Surtees | Ferrari 330 P2 Spyder | P4.0 | 225 | DNF (Gearbox) | |
| 1966 | SpAFerrari SEFAC | Mike Parkes | Ferrari 330 P3 | P5.0 | 123 | DNF (Accident) | |
| 1967 | SpAFerrari SEFAC | Mike Parkes | Ferrari 330 P4 | P5.0 | 384 | 2nd | 1st |
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | S.E.F.A.C.Ferrari | John Surtees | Ferrari 250 P | P3.0 | 209 | 1st | 1st |
| 1964 | S.E.F.A.C.Ferrari | Nino Vaccarella | Ferrari 275 P | P+3.0 | 213 | 2nd | 2nd |
| 1966 | SpAFerrari SEFAC | Lorenzo Bandini | Ferrari Dino 206 S | P2.0 | 206 | 5th | 2nd |
| 1968 |  Porsche Automobile Co. |  Joe Buzzetta | Porsche 907 2.2 | P3.0 | 7 | DNF (Valve spring) | |
Source:[18] | |||||||
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Ferrari SpA | Mike Parkes | Ferrari 330 P4 | P+2.0 | 663 | 2nd | 2nd |
Source:[18] | |||||||
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by | Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1963 With:Lorenzo Bandini | Succeeded by |
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