Carlo Felice Trossi

Carlo Felice Trossi (* April 27, 1908 in Biella, † May 5, 1949 in Milan ) was an Italian racing driver.

Career

The Count Carlo Felice Trossi was among the well-off gentlemen drivers who saw the racing not as a day job, but as nervous tickling pastime. However, he had more talent than most of his aristocratic peers.

1932 saw him for the first time in a Mercedes -Benz sports car in a hill race, for the next few years he acquired an Alfa Romeo. Since the German team Mercedes and Auto Union sold a car to privateers, he concentrated on hill climbs and races of Voiturette class where he celebrated numerous victories. He was able to win the 1933 European Hill Climb Championship for racing cars. Had Trossi a good day, he left all competitors behind, but he had great power fluctuations. In addition to the sports car he also denied motorboat races.

After the war he joined the Alfa Romeo factory team, the best team in the postwar period. For his team, he won the Italian Grand Prix in 1947 and Switzerland in 1948 the GP.

During his last success he was drawn by cancer, in 1949, that killed him at the age of only 41 years.