Scuderia Filipinetti
The Scuderia Filipinetti (French also Ecurie Filipinetti ) was a Swiss racing companies. The company's headquarters was in Geneva. Founder and owner was the influential Swiss businessman and Ferrari importer General Georges Filipinetti.
History
The Scuderia Filipinetti walked out of the racing team " 1 ' Equipe Nationale Suisse " out. It was a private Swiss Motorsport team, which was very well known for its enormous success in racing 1962-1973. The Scuderia Filipinetti in 1962 founded by Georges Filipinetti and was one of the first, funded purely by sponsoring race teams. She was considered one of the most prestigious private automobile racing teams in the world. With the successful Swiss racing driver Jo Siffert Scuderia Filipinetti initiated in 1962 its Formula 1 debut.
From 1963 also the talented Swiss driver Herbert Müller drove successful race for the Scuderia Filipinetti. The Scuderia Filipinetti was brand-independent and participated with many different vehicle brands such as Lotus, Porsche, Ferrari, Lola, Ford, Shelby AC Cobra and Fiat at the most different racing classes.
For Filipinetti driver drove like:
- Jim Clark
- Phil Hill
- Ronnie Peterson
- Jo Siffert
- Herbert Müller
- Willy Mairesse
- Jo Bonnier
- Nino Vaccarella
- Dieter Spoerry
- Mike Parkes
- Walter Dona
But other now well-known personalities, such as the Swiss Claude F. Sage ( until 1970 racing team manager) or Franco Sbarro (then chief mechanic at Filipinetti ), played an important role in the Scuderia Filipinetti. In the early 1970s, as a result of commissioning Filipinettis by the FIAT group, were converted to racing car in a specially opened workshop in Formigine Modena Fiat 128 and successfully driven in numerous races. The once set as a racer in Filipinetti engineer Mike Parkes was the Scuderia workshop responsible for the technical implementation and the line in Formigine. According to financial problems in 1972, the former French oil company Antar involved in Filipinetti, thus the name of the racing company in " Ecurie Antar Filipinetti " has been changed. In March 1973, the last built by Filipinetti racing car was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. The Filipinetti X1 / 9 was intended as a racing model for the Fiat X1 / 9 and should build on the successes of the Filipinetti FIAT 128.
On May 3, 1973 Georges Filipinetti died unexpectedly. Because of the previous financial problems decided Filipinettis members to close the Scuderia and set on racing. All race cars were sold a short time later.
Developments adjacent to the racing
The once set as a mechanic Franco Sbarro developed in collaboration with Filipinetti two vehicle studies, the Filipinetti I and II Filipinetti In collaboration with Fiat, a prototype of a street version of the successful Filipinetti Fiat 128 race car was in 1972 by racing driver and engineer Mike Parkes developed. But the Filipinetti Fiat 128 Stradale never went into production. At the Geneva Motor Show in 1973, a further prototype of a road version was presented by Filipinetti Fiat 128 Sport Coupe. Also the Filipinetti X1 / 9 was a development Mike Parkes and was originally intended to promote the sale of the Series wagon to the car company Fiat.