Guido Daccò

Guido Daccò ( born September 10, 1942 in Limbiate; † 29 July 2006) was an Italian car and motorcycle racers.

Daccò began in 1969 with the motorcycle racing. In the late 1970s he rose to 35 -year-old in car racing. He made his debut in the Italian Formula 3 Championship. In 1980 he raced in the Formula 2 in the same team as his friend Arturo Merzario. Also in the British Formula 1 series, he drove a 1980 race. The next two years he remained in Formula 2, where it was a Minardi GM 75, which he used in 1981 for his own team Racing Dacsport and 1982 for the team Brambilla Racing. In 1982 he competed in the 1000 km race at Monza with a Lancia Beta Monte Carlo, which he shared with Mark Thatcher and Gianni Giudici. You won the seventh place.

Also in 1983 remained Daccò in Formula 2, but this time with the Sanremo team. He scored four points. At the end of the year he started with Jolly Club to operate in the Alba - Giannini project. By 1985, he drove this group C2 a sportscar and reached some good results, such as the excellent third place in the 100 - kilometer race at Mosport behind two factory Porsches. In the single-seaters Daccò remained with the team in 1984 Sanremo in Formula 2 and drove a four points. The following year he went to the new Formula 3000 and won six points. 1986 denied Daccò some Formula 3000 race for Scuderia Coloni, the Monegasque Écurie Monaco and Corbari Italia, but would not earn more championship points.

He later moved to America, where it was in the Indy Lights series, which was then called Amarican Racing Series. Despite his 43 years, he reached up to 1988 some good results, including a podium finish. In 1989 he drove in the Indy Car World Series for Dale Coyne Racing. Until 1992, he went on in this series, among other things for teams such as Team Bettenhausen, Euro Motorsport, Burns and Genoa Racing. With just four points from 23 races he was not very successful. The attempts to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in 1990 and 1991 failed.

In 1992 he returned to Europe and drove in two races in the German Formula 3 championship in a Eufra -390 - Opel. At the end of the year he retired from racing. During his career, he also drove in the IMSA series, and the European Touring Car Championship.

In the following years he continued occasionally even with race in historic cars. Died in 2006 with Guido Daccò 64 years after a long, unknown disease.

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• Formula 3000 racer
• Racers (Italy )
• Italian
• Born in 1942
• Died in 2006
• Man
• Drivers in the 24 Hours of Le Mans
• World Sports Car Championship racer