Ugo Sivocci

Ugo Sivocci ( born August 29, 1885 in Salerno, † September 8, 1923 in Monza ) was an Italian automobile racing driver.

Sivocci initially denied bicycle race. After the First World War, he worked as a car mechanic in Milan, but he got to know Enzo Ferrari. 1920 both changed a racing team of Alfa Romeo. With the HP 20-30 ES Sport Sivocci scored the second in a race at Parma. 1923 Alfa Romeo stepped up to the RL and immediately won numerous races.

For the Targa Florio in 1923 Ugo Sivocci had previously on the hood of a green four leaf clover on a white rectangle: painted as a good luck charm (Italian Quadrifoglio Verde). When he won the race, the Quadrifoglio Verde was one to still valid trademark for the used in racing Alfa Romeo cars. In this race Alfa Romeo is next to the first place also the second and fourth.

It is said that Sivocci was superstitious. The Targa Florio 1923 he won with the otherwise ominous number 13 Sivocci soon after came to test the new P1 at Monza in the same year. Contrary to his wish, the Quadrifoglio Verde was not yet on the test car. In the later so designated Ascari curve he fell from the track and was killed. His car was wearing this time the number 17 since the start number 17 has been never awarded to Italian racing cars.

• GP rider before 1950
• Racers (Italy )
• Italian
• Born 1885
• Died in 1923
• Man