Giordano Aldrighetti

Giordano " Nando " Aldrighetti ( born November 14, 1905 in Milan, † August 12, 1939 in Pescara ) was an Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver.

Career

Giordano called " Nando " Aldrighetti was a more versatile athlete. He played football, ice hockey and was a racing driver. His first motorcycle races he competed at the age of 24 years, in 1930 he won the Italian championship in the Seconda series.

In 1931 Aldrighetti won five national race on a 250 cc Ariel. For the following season, he was hired for the newly created motorcycle division of Scuderia Ferrari, the Enzo Ferrari operational from 1932 to 1934 with Bianchi, Norton and Rudge machines. Giordano Aldrighetti was with his friend Aldo Pigorini most successful driver of the racing team and drove 19 wins in three years. In 1932, he was on top of everything at the 14th International Six Day Trial in Merano with the Italian team and his supporters Pigorini Aldo and Silvio Vailati second in the silver vase - rating.

1933 Rudge won Aldrighetti on the Italian road championship in the 500cc class and beat off the likes of Omobono Tenni, Terzo Bandini and Amilcare Moretti by. He was also, along with Aldo Pigorini and Terzo Bandini on Bianchi third in the Trophy standings of the 15th International Six Day Trial in Llandrindod Wells ( Wales). When the Scuderia Ferrari - Reparto Motociclistico was closed at the end of the 1934 season, Aldrighetti retained the symbol of the racing, the Cavallino rampante on his helmet.

In 1934 Alfa Romeo 8C Aldrighetti on a 2300 Monza Scuderia Ferrari for the first time at the Coppa Ciano at the Circuito di Monte Nero in Livorno un so at a major automobile race part, but different from it.

1936 won Nando Aldrighetti on Moto Guzzi in the quarter liter run around the third Grand Prix of Italy on the fast track of Monza. In the same year he took on Fiat 508CS Balilla Sport part in the Mille Miglia, but dropped out.

In the 1938 season he won the almost 1,300 km road race II Milano -Taranto / VII Coppa Mussolini from Milan to Taranto on a 500 cc Gilera factory engine with four-cylinder engine, breaking with an average speed of 118 km / h to then existing record. In the same year Aldrighetti also won his second title in the Italian 500cc Championship.

1938, at the age of 33 years, Giordano Aldrighetti finally decided to leave the motorcycle sport and move to car racing. Once again, it was Enzo Ferrari, who thought highly of ex- motorcycle racers as pilots for his car, a chance. On a test drive at the Ferrari himself with was in the car, crashed Aldrighetti. Enzo Ferrari injured his nose.

At the end of 1938, the Milan Alfa Romeo test driver to the side of Consalvo Sanesi and Emilio Villoresi. Aldrighetti piloted on May 7, 1939, the Tipo 158 Alfettas the Tripoli Grand Prix at the Autodromo della Mellaha in Voiturette class and retired from there. On July 30, in the Coppa Ciano in Livorno, he also did not reach the target due to gearbox problems.

A few days later, on August 11, 1939 accident Giordano Aldrighetti with his Alfa Romeo in training for the XV Coppa Acerbo on the 25.8 km long Circuito di Pescara difficult. The first reports stated that Aldrighetti was only slightly injured. He was taken to the hospital in Pescara, where he succumbed to his internal injuries at the age of 34 years shortly after midnight.

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