Pietro Bordino

Pietro Bordino ( born November 22, 1887 in Turin, † April 16, 1928 in Alessandria ) was an Italian racing driver.

Career

Pietro Bordino came at an early age with motor racing in contact. His father worked at Fiat and the young Pietro came into contact with Vincenzo Lancia, who was at the Fiat factory driver. Bordino was in 1902 as a fifteen year old whose beifahrender mechanic. In this capacity he was in 1906, together with Lancia second at Vanderbilt Cup.

1908 Bordinos began career as a driver. He made his debut at a hillclimb and climbed 1911 in Grand Prix racing. He was works driver at Fiat and moved 1913 Vincenzo Lancia, who had meanwhile founded his own automobile company. In 1913 he was eighth at the Targa Florio. The First World War interrupted the racing activities of Bordino, who continued his career after the end of hostilities in 1919 as a motorcycle racer. In 1921 he returned as a factory driver from Fiat to Monopostosport. With the Fiat 801 he denied the Tara Florio, but failed. Throughout the summer, he played for the Italian factory team racing in the United States and returned to Europe only at the Italian Grand Prix. In the race he was on a Fiat 802 long lead, but fell in the 16th round with a damage to the magneto out.

In 1922 he celebrated his biggest success in motorsport, when he won his first Grand Prix with his victory at the Italian Grand Prix.

Bordino was next to Felice Nazzaro Antonio Ascari and the most famous Italian racing driver of the 1920s. It led to a lot of races, but could finish only a few because of its equipment destroying driving. After the withdrawal of Fiat from the international Grand Prix racing, he acquired a Bugatti T35 and denied further with this car racing. In 1928 he had an accident during practice for the V Circuto di Alessandria, a road race in the city of Alessandria, deadly. When trying to dodge a running across the street dog he went off track, the Bugatti overturned and plunged into a river. Bordino found this death.