Eugenio Siena
Eugenio Siena ( born April 1, 1905 in Milan, † May 15, 1938 in Tripoli, Italian Libya ) was an Italian racing driver.
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Career
Siena was a cousin of the successful in the 1920s, race car driver Giuseppe Campari and started by the aid of a mechanic and test driver on the side of Enzo Ferrari at Alfa Romeo. With the young Ferrari he won for example 1924 Alfa Romeo RL the first edition of the Coppa Acerbo near Pescara. Later Siena was a passenger as other successful Italian pilots, among them Baconin Borzacchini, Mario Tadini, Piero Taruffi, Emilio Villoresi and Tazio Nuvolari.
From 1930 to 1934 he worked for the Scuderia Ferrari and won, among other things as a driver 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300mm with Antonio Brivio the 24 - hour race at Spa -Francorchamps and 1933 VI. Coppa Principe di Piemonte. In the Mille Miglia in 1934, he was co- pilot of Tazio Nuvolari on Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Second.
Later, Eugenio Siena privateer and founded the Scuderia Siena, with whom he mainly played Voiturette races from 1934 to 1936. At the Grand Prix of Monaco in 1934, he was on Maserati 8C -3000 Roller, 1937, he won the race Circuito di Milano Parco Sempione on Maserati 4CM.
After the end of the 1937 season Siena got the offer to become works driver for Alfa Romeo. His first race for the Milan was the Tripoli Grand Prix in 1938 at the Autodromo della Mellaha in the former Italian colony of Libya, where he drove a Tipo 312 on the side of Giuseppe Farina, Clemente Biondetti and Raymond Sommer for Alfa Corse.
Fatal Accident
The race took place on Sunday, May 15, 1938. Shortly after the start, a number of starting off behind the great Grand Prix cars Maserati Voiturettes mixed into the field. Some works drivers, including Hermann Lang, Rudolf Caracciola and Carlo Felice Trossi were stuck behind this car and made it only gradually, to overtake them. Eugenio Siena, who qualified ninth, was behind the Maseratis of Luigi Villoresi and Franco Cortese, who led the Voiturette class tenth. At the beginning of the eighth round Siena tried to overtake Corteses car on the Route to the first corner. In the hard braking maneuver he lost control of his Alfa Romeo and came off the track. He ran over it a piece of sand and some trees and crashed into a wall. The Italian was thrown from the car several feet through the air and died on impact.
Only minutes later, there was another tragic accident when László Hartmann in his Maserati collided with Giuseppe Farina Alfa Romeo. The Hungarian broke her spine and died the following day in the Italian hospital in Tripoli.