Ferdinando Minoia
Ferdinando Minoia ( born June 2, 1884 in Italy, † June 28, 1940 ) was an Italian racing driver who was able to achieve significant successes in its striking long career.
Sporting successes
In 1907 Minoia could have its first major success in his career when he won the Coppa Florio in an Isotta Fraschini. He put the 486 kilometers back in 4 hours and 39 minutes, and so won a prize money of 50,000 lira. Subsequently, however Minoia was initially unsuccessful, although he participated in various races. After he finished 1925 in 25th place in the 24- hour race at Le Mans, he reached in 1926 in the same race the remarkable fourth place. His race car was the Officine Meccaniche. In the same year he drove the Grand Prix of Germany in OM with 161 km / h the fastest race lap.
1923 became Minoia some notoriety because he did the first driver to a race car with mid-engine, the Benz Tropfenwagen used.
1931 praised the international governing body of the automobile, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (formerly: International Association of Automobile Clubs Reconnus, AIACR ), the price of European Champion. This was awarded to the overall winner of the Grand Prix of Italy, France and Belgium. The former title of European Champions is roughly equivalent to today's world championship of Formula 1 Minoia could win this title in 1931 as the first racer ever, without having won a single Grand Prix. He sat there with his Alfa Romeo barely against his Alfa Romeo team-mate Giuseppe Campari by.