Carlo Giovanni Facetti (born 26 June 1935) is a former racing driver from Italy, mainly known for his success in touring car and sports car racing. In his single attempt at Formula One he failed to qualify for the 1974 Italian Grand Prix with a Brabham BT42 run by the Scuderia Finotto team.
In 1979 he was the European Touring Car Champion. He was also 2nd in 1977 and 4th in 1978. Info from Wiki
Bio by Rein Ouwerling
Carlo Facetti was born in a northern suburb of Milan, Carlo Facetti began racing in 1953 and was a race winner at the start of the European Touring Car Championship 10 years later.
He also raced in Formula 3 during the 1960s and stepped up to Formula 2 in 1968 with a works-supported Tecno. European results were less-than impressive but he finished seventh in a Temporada race at San Juan.
He also made his first start at Le Mans that year when fifth with Spartaco Dini and a works Alfa Romeo T33/2. Third in the 1972 Buenos Aires 1000 Kms with Giovanni Alberti’s private Alfa Romeo, he continued to be employed by the marque as test driver for the works-backed Autodelta operation. He would not win a World Sportscar hampionship race during his career but 1974 was a particularly successful and consistent season as Facetti and Andrea de Adamich finished on the podium four times.
Although endurance racing was now his focus, the 39 year old was entered in the 1974 Italian GP but he could not qualify his Scuderia Finotto Brabham BT42-Ford… Martino Finotto was Facetti’s regular co-driver and they raced for Milan’s Jolly Club in both sports cars and the European Touring Car Championship. They shared the second-placed Porsche 935 with Romeo Camathias in the Daytona 24 Hours and Mugello Six Hours at the start of the 1977 World Sportscar Championship. Alpina’s title-winning BMW 3.0 CSL was acquired for the following season’s ETCC and they won three times to finish as runners-up behind Umberto Grano despite missing the final three races following a crash at the Nürburgring. They returned at the start of 1979 and went one better – clinching the ETCC title with five victories that included the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone. In addition, Facetti joined Riccardo Patrese in a works Lancia Beta Monte Carlo to finish second in the world championship Florio Cup at Enna-Pergusa. Finotto and Facetti dominated the first two seasons of the fledgling Group C2 category. The company they ran together (named Carma due to their first names) built the Alba AR2-Giannini with which they won the class constructors’ world title in 1983 and 1984. Carlo Facetti continued to race occasionally into the mid 1990s and presently runs a preparation company in Bresso.
