Luigi Piotti

Luigi Piotti ( born October 27, 1913 in Milan, † April 9, 1971 in Godiasco ) was an Italian racing driver.

Piotti Luigi, an Italian businessman, who drove from pleasure car racing, had some success in sports car racing at the beginning of his career. In 1952, he celebrated at the Tour de Sicilly a class victory with a privately entered OSCA and was built in 1954 surprising third at the Targa Florio. In the same year he won the rarely driven 12 - hour race at Hyères on a works Ferrari together with Maurice Trintignant.

In 1956 he made ​​his debut in the Formula 1 World Championship. As early as 1955 he had become a seventh Grand Prix of Syracuse and its strong performance earned him a Maserati factory car for the Grand Prix of Argentina. In the race, the Italians fought to the astonishment of experts prior to the lead group before he collided with the Ferrari 555 Supersqualo by Peter Collins in his Maserati 250F. At the Italian Grand Prix he made again for excitement as he unceremoniously shoved to the stranded without fuel Maserati of Stirling Moss on and into the box. Moss won the race with three laps behind Piotti was sixth and missed the World Championship point just barely.

He was a regular single-seater racing with his Maserati to 1958. At the end of the season he retired from racing and devoted himself to his business.

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