Renato Pirocchi

Renato Pirocchi ( born June 26, 1933, notary Francesco; † July 29, 2002 in Chieti ) was an Italian racing driver.

Renato Pirocchi ran his small vehicles Stanguellini of sports car racing when he became one of the best pilots in the Italian Formula Junior scene in the mid -1950s. 1959, in a race in Taraschi, the lifelong friendship began to Lorenzo Bandini. The two some duels fought on the domestic racetracks. 1960 crowned Pirocchi his Formula Junior career with the overall victory in the Italian championship. Great attention was also his victory at the Grand Prix of Cuba in the same year.

While the path of Bandini determined led to the Formula 1 career of Pirocchi faltered. In 1961, he earned his only world championship race. At the Italian Grand Prix he pilotiere a Cooper T53 -Maserati, the Pescara Racing Club had reported to him. It was the race in which the German Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips was killed and which ended with the victory by Phil Hill in the Ferrari 156. Pirocchi came with a backlog of four rounds on the winner in twelfth to the finish.