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[Felix Muelas]

Reading the features of the Minardi Team in the Atlas F1 website one can easily stump into this paragraph:

After a brief interlude in rallying, at the wheel of a Fiat 124, and several meets for classic cars, he (Giancarlo Minardi) hung up his helmet and devoted his energies to Scuderia del Passatore, a Faenza-based team competing in the minor formulas.
From 1972 to 1974 Gian Carlo Minardi ran Scuderia del Passatore, achieving excellent results in Formula Italia: Giancarlo Martini was crowned runner-up in the 1972 championship and lifted the title in 1973
In 1975 the team was renamed Scuderia Everest and made its debut in the F.2 European championship. It was at this time that the team entered into collaboration with Ferrari, which gave Minardi a F1 312 B3 to wean emerging talent on the Italian motor racing scene. In the meantime the minor formulas continued to bring satisfaction with Leoni and Martini; Martini won the Italian F2 championship title in 1976. In 1977 Ferrari gave the Faenza-based team the Dino V6 engines which powered the Ralts driven by Leoni and Gianfranco Brancatelli and, in 1978, the Chevrons driven by Elio De Angelis, Clay Regazzoni and Miguel Angel Guerra.

Any further info on that Scuderia del Passatore? Is the name well spelt? Where could one find records of the Formula Italia races of those years?

Thanks in advance,

Felix

[Racer.Demon]

I bet Stefan is still looking for results of that 1976 Italian F2 championship

BTW, to beat the Italians on their homeground: 'passatore' is a masculine word meaning ferryman, so the name and the 'del' seem to be the correct spelling...

[alessandro silva]

'passatore' is a masculine word meaning ferryman,

Mattijs, how do you know that?

[Stefan Ornerdal]

I bet Stefan is still looking for results of that 1976 Italian F2 championship

I am! I never heard of this championship except for this article at Atlas and at Minardis own homepage. Was there really an Italian F2 Championship that year?

Stefan

[FEV]

I would bet it was a "championship" based on the performance of national drivers in every F2 races that year (European Championship & the few non-championship races there were). It was common in those years wasn't it ?

[Racer.Demon]

In that case Maurizio Flammini would be the obvious candidate for 1976. So why Martini?

Might there have been a championship that was made out of the Italian rounds only, i.e. Vallelunga, Mugello, Enna? In that case Martini with a '5th' at Vallelunga and a 'win' at Mugello would indeed take the 'crown'.

Alessandro: it was just a matter of my affection for your country and language, and the use of an online dictionary...

[Vitesse2]

... and possibly a by-product of your research for the Summer 2001 8W game?:lol:

[HistoryFan]

Has anyone exact results of the racing driver Giancarlo Minardi? I only know that he was involved in Rallye and hill climbs with a Fiat 125 and a Fiat 500 (tuned from Faccioli - who is that?). This was in the late 60s.

And are there pictures from the Scuderia del Passatore?
And I need a picture of Giancarlo Martini in an Scuderia Everest F2 - and one from Michele Alboreto in an Minardi F2 in the 80s.

[gio66]

Originally posted by HistoryFan
Has anyone exact results of the racing driver Giancarlo Minardi? I only know that he was involved in Rallye and hill climbs with a Fiat 125 and a Fiat 500 (tuned from Faccioli - who is that?). This was in the late 60s.

Maybe I meet Giancarlo today at the Trofeo Bandini's aware (special guest Robert Kubica and his F1 car).
I'll try to ask him.

[HistoryFan]

That would be great!

[gio66]

Mission accomplished!

When I've asked to Giancarlo about his driver's career he started laughing

He said is better to forget about that. The best result was the third class place at Predappio-Rocca delle Caminate hillclimb 1968 with a FIAT 500.
He rans with 124 one race only, but he don't tell me which race (he was a little bit busy).

That's all.

Cheers!

[HistoryFan]

Hey!

Thank you for asking!