Tony Settember
Tony Settember (* July 10, 1926 in Manila ) is a retired American race car driver.
Before the Californians came to Europe, he drove a Corvette and a Mercedes- Benz 300 SL sports car racing in the U.S.. In Italy, he won on a Maserati end of the 1950s, the Grand Prix of Naples.
Beginning of the 1960s persuaded Settember his wealthy friend Hugh Powell, to invest money in the UK Emeryson team to have to build a Formula 1 racing car for the 1962 season there. Although the Emeryson 1004 with the 4-cylinder Climax engine was a simple race car, but september and his teammate John Campbell -Jones had problems, tune the car properly.
Settember gave the Grand Prix of Great Britain at Aintree his debut in Formula 1 with four laps behind the winner Wolfgang von Trips in his Ferrari 156 he was eleventh. Soon came armed to the team and Paul Emery left the racing team before the end of the season.
Powell and Settember organized themselves and went in 1963 as the new Scirocco -Powell Racing Cars team at the start. The chassis was built by Emery still, as it was driven a V8 engine of BRM. The vehicle was attractive, but slow. In the world championship Settember was thus no chance, not only during the World Cup scoring Grand Prix of Austria he could finish second. However, competition was there more than modest.
1964 withdrew Powell and Settember returned back to Europe to work in the United States from continuing his career. He drove sports cars race again; first with a Lotus 23, later with a Lotus 30 and a AC Cobra. Beginning of the 1970s, he rose with a Lola T70 in the CanAm series, but was also rarely achieve success and soon retired from racing.