Alberto
Colombo
Biography
Alberto Colombo was born in Varedo, Italy, on 23 February 1946. He won the Italian Formula Three Championship in 1974 and also raced in Formula Two. In 1978 he was entered in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix but never started a race: he failed to qualify twice with ATS and failed to pre-qualify once with Merzario.
In 1980 he took part in the Team Riviera Formula One project as both driver and team manager, but the car was never assembled. Through the 1980s he ran Sanremo Racing as team owner and manager in the European Formula Two Championship and the International Formula 3000 Championship. He helped advance the careers of young Italian drivers such as Gabriele Tarquini, Carlo Rossi, Guido Daccò and Ivan Capelli. Colombo died on 7 January 2024.
Source: Wikipedia, “Alberto Colombo (racing driver)”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
This driver has no race starts.
Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.