Lorenzo Bandini

Lorenzo Bandini was a racing driver Italian, born the December 21st 1935 in Brace in Cyrénaïque, an area of the Libya and deceased the May 10th 1967 of the continuations of an accident to GP of Monaco.

Biography

In 1961, Lorenzo Bandini was invited to join the Scuderia Centro Southern. It was then recruited by the Scuderia Ferrari for the seasons 1962 and 1963 during which it behaved very honourably. In 1963 Bandini gained the 24 hours of Mans associated with Ludovico Scarfiotti. During the years 1964 and 1965, it took a wheel in Formule 1 under the colors of the Scuderia Centro Southern. Ferrari required its return in Formule 1 in the middle of the season 1966 in order to replace John Surtees which had just left the stable.

In 1964, Lorenzo Bandini gained the single Grand Prix of Formule 1 of its career at the time of the first GP of Austria on the old circuit of Zeltweg. It brought thereafter other victories to the Scuderia Ferrari, in particular the Targa Florio in 1965 and the 24 hours of Daytona in 1967, year when he became first pilot at Ferrari.

May 8th of this same year, at the time of the four-twenty-second turn of GP of Monaco, whereas he was second, launched with the continuation of the Brabham of Denny Hulme; it lost the control of its Ferrari which was turned over and blazed up immediately while running up by the back of the bales of straw on the outlet side of the baffle of the port leaving Lorenzo Bandini trapped under its car on fire. It was to die of the continuations of the terrible burns inflicted by this accident two days later at the hospital Princesse Grace of Monaco.

It is Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma which, armed with an extinguisher and with the assistance with a police chief with race, extracted Lorenzo Bandini from the carcass of its Ferrari on fire.

External bonds

  1. the accident

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