Ottorino Volonterio

Ottorino Volonterio ( born December 7, 1917 in Orselina, † March 10, 2003 in Lugano) was a Swiss racing driver.

Volonterio, a lawyer from Locarno, went on to the early 1950s with a lot of enthusiasm and little countable results sports car racing with race cars the brand Maserati. His biggest success was the second place in the Coupe de Paris 1955 in Montlhery.

His first Formula 1 Grand Prix he drove 1954 in Pedralbes, Spain as the Maserati 250F of Toulo de Graffenried took over. With engine damage Volonterio forced to retire.

Overall, the Swiss, which was much too slow for a Formula 1 driver, three WRC rounds driving. At the Nürburgring in 1956, he came up with a backlog of six rounds on the winner Juan Manuel Fangio to the finish. At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1957 he shared the Maserati with André Simon. The residue in the target on the winner Stirling Moss was 15 rounds.

Literature and sources

• Rainer W. Schlegelmilch: Portraits of the 60's. Könemann, 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902-00746-8