Ludovico
Scarfiotti

Ludovico Scarfiotti was born in Turin on 18 October 1933, and his grandfather was among the founders of Fiat. He began in sportscar racing and drove for Ferrari from 1960. He won the sportscar class of the European Hillclimb Championship in 1962 and 1965. In 1963 he took victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Ferrari 250 P alongside Lorenzo Bandini, and the same year he won the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Those results led to his Formula One debut for Ferrari in 1963, when he finished sixth in the Dutch Grand Prix. Over the following seasons he appeared for the team only occasionally. In 1966 he won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, becoming the first Italian in fifteen years to win that race. It remained his only victory and his only podium, and tenth place in the championship that year was his best final position. In 1967 he also made a single start for Eagle at Monza, where the Weslake engine failed early. That year he also shared a win with Mike Parkes in a race at Syracuse that did not count towards the World Championship, the two of them crossing the line together in a dead heat. In 1968 he moved to Cooper. In all he started ten World Championship Grands Prix.

In sportscars he finished second at Le Mans and at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1967, both times with Parkes. In 1968 he also competed in hillclimbs for Porsche. On 8 June 1968 he was killed in a crash at a hillclimb event on the Roßfeld road near Berchtesgaden, Germany. He was 34.

Source: Wikipedia, “Ludovico Scarfiotti”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.