Cesare Perdisa

Cesare Perdisa ( born October 21, 1932 in Bologna, † May 10, 1998 ) was an Italian race car driver and businessman.

From a family of wealthy journalists and newspaper publishers to arise, who owned the prestigious motorsport magazine " Quattro rotting ," said Perdisa could afford as a "gentleman's " a Maserati 250F, which he quite talented drove during the 1955 Formula 1 season. At the Grand Prix of Monaco, which was marked by many failures of the favorites, he shared the car with the more prominent Jean Behra, which earned him the third place to the podium. Through the mandatory division points he ranked in the final standings of the Formula 1 on the 17th rank.

Between 1955 and 1957 he was to start eight times. However, Cesare Perdisa had with a fourth place in Belgium and in fifth place in the Grand Prix of France in Reims the season 1956, two other notable rankings, where he had shared again his single-seater with a driver - the Briton Stirling Moss. At the Grand Prix of Argentina Perdisa even drove a Ferrari to the 33rd round and then had him transferred to Peter Collins, who is now reached at least the sixth. Since Perdisa lucky not smiled this year with another guest stint, he must have put back his ambitions at comparatively modest effort well. Curious is the fact that although he repeatedly points to the ever- had to share the car and the points with other drivers drove, however.

Perdisa had to irritate the particular quirk, Stirling Moss, headed by raw eggs and their contents swallowed down in a train. Sometimes he is said to have done this even in the starting lineup, which currently Moss detested.

Perdisa also launched at sports car races such as the 1956 1000 km race at the Nürburgring with a Maserati 300S and so well-known " riders " as Behra and Moss, but finished with a broken suspension the race prematurely. In 1957, he had but with Eugenio Castellotti lucky enough to win the 1000km race of Buenos Aires. When this gifted sports car pilot test drives for Ferrari in Modena died in an accident, Perdisa told shocked his retirement from racing and devoted himself exclusively to his business.

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