Lodovico Scarfiotti (18 October 1933 – 8 June 1968) was a Formula One and sports car driver from Italy.
Just prior to entering Formula One, he won the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans for Ferrari. He later participated in 12 World Championship Formula One grands prix, and many non-championship races. He won one World Championship race, and scored a total of 17 championship points. A motor sports competitor for a decade, Scarfiotti won the 1962 and 1965 European Hillclimb Championship. He was proclaimed Italy’s best driver in both 1962 and 1965. Info from Wiki
Bio by Stephen Latham
Lodovico Scarfiotti recorded ten Grands Prix starts, winning 1966’s Italian race at Monza plus was victorious in sports cars in the Sebring 12 Hours and at Le Mans in 1963.
Born in Turin on the 18th October 1933, he had an early association with cars as his father had contested five Mille Miglias (finishing third in 1932) while his grandfather was one of the nine founders of Fiat, plus its first president.
In 1952 he drove a Fiat 500C ‘Topolino’ at the Circuito del Piceno and later raced a Fiat 1100 in 1956’s Giro delle Calabria and the Mille Miglia, finishing 57th overall and winning the T/GT1.1 class. He switched to a Fiat 8V and took second place in 1956’s GP Roma and the following year finished second and third with it in the Coppa Inter-Europa and the Esso Vallelunga.
Racing an Osca S1100 and an MT4 in 1958 he won the Premio Mobil Vallelunga and Circuit di Caserta races plus the GP Napoli. He and Sergio Mantovani contested that year’s Targa Florio with an OSCA S1500 but they did not finish the race.
In 1959 he continued with the Osca S1500, taking victory in the Coppa Sant Ambroeus and had a third place podium in the GP Messina. The year saw his first race in a Ferrari, when he and Giorgio Scarlatti contested Goodwood’s Tourist Trophy in a Ferrari Dino 196S.
There were shared Ferrari drives in the following year, with Jose Froilan Gonzalez in the 1000km of Buenos Aires and Richie Ginther in the 1000km Nurburgring. He also made his debut at Le Mans though he and Pedro Rodriguez retired after 22 laps, running out of fuel though a highlight that year though was a fourth place finish in the Targa Florio, with Willy Mairesse and Giulio Cabianca.
He competed in 1961’s World Sportscar Championship with OSCAS and a Maserati Tipo 63. He and Nino Vaccarella drove a Scuderia Serenissima Maserati Tipo 63 at Le Mans and were joined by Maurice Trintignant and Umberto Magnolia for the 1000km Nurburgring. He and Balzarini drove a Ferrari 250GT in the 1000km P/Users/stephenlatham/Desktop/L.SCARFIOTTI/Lodovico Scarfiotti (chased by Jim Clark) Italy_1966 (f1history).jpgaris and he put the year’s retirements behind him when he took victory with an OSCA 2000S in the Campagna Vallelunga.
1962 saw him drive an OSCA at Targa Florio (with Govoni), an Alfa Romeo Giulietta with Taramazzo at the Nurburgring 1000km and a Ferrari Dino 268 SP with Giancarlo Baghetti at Le Mans. Highlights that year were third in a Ferrari 250 GT SWB with Colin Davis at the Paris 1000 km plus victory at the Circuit del Garda in a Fiat Abarth 1000. Besides sports car races, he was active in hillclimbing and won the European Hillclimb Championship in 1962 with a Ferrari Dino 196SP. He would go on to repeat this achievement in 1965, becoming champion in a Ferrari Dino 206P.
He was a Ferrari factory team member in 1963 and the season started with victory in the Sebring 12 Hours, sharing a Ferrari 250 P with John Surtees. Following this, he, L.Bandini and W.Mairesse took second in the Targa Florio and then came Le Mans, where he and Lorenzo Bandini won the coveted race, taking the flag in their Ferrari 250 P and it was the fourth consecutive win for Ferrari at Le Mans. Shortly after Le Mans came his Formula One debut with Ferrari at Zandvoort, replacing an injured W.Mairesse. He qualified eleventh and finished sixth, and did well to score a point on his debut but a week later he crashed at Reims during practice for the French GP and sustained leg injuries.
The following year saw his second F1 race, qualifying his Ferrari 156 sixteenth and finishing ninth at Monza. In sports cars, he and Nino Vaccarella finished second at Sebring with a Ferrari 275 P and then won the Nurburgring 1000kms. He and Mike Parkes retired at Le Mans though were more successful at the Reims 12 Hours, finishing third overall and first in the GT3.0 class. Continuing with Ferrari in the World Sportscar Championship he and J.Surtees finished second at the Monza 1000km in a Ferrari 330 P2 and then won the Nurburgring 1000km. At Le Mans, despite starting second they retired after 225 laps with a broken gearbox. He was scheduled to race in the Mexican GP but his car was given to Pedro Rodriguez though he competed in two non-championship F1 races with a BRM, at the Syracuse Grand Prix and the Race of Champions.
In 1966 he and Mike Parkes won the Spa 1000km, though he retired at Le Mans after an accident. He returned to an F1 cockpit in August at the Nurburgring though his race ended due to electrical problems. Then came the Italian GP at Monza, where he set the fastest lap and beat teammate Mike Parkes to take a popular victory in front of the home crowd.
He and Mike Parkes started 1967 with a second place at Daytona, followed by second at Monza, fifth at Spa and second at Le Mans behind Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt in a Ford GT40. In F1 he was fifth in the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch and won the Syracuse GP, sharing a dead heat with Mike Parkes. He returned to Zandvoort for the Dutch GP, where he debuted several years earlier, and finished sixth while Belgium was his last F1 race with Ferrari and when he returned to compete at Monza it was at the wheel of an Eagle-Weslake.
For 1968’s season-opening race in South Africa, he was now with Cooper though his Maserati powered car retired after just two laps. The team switched to BRM V12 engines for the next race and he finished fourth in Spain (behind teammate Brian Redman) while at Monaco he took another fourth place finish. There was also a switch from Ferrari to Porsche in sports cars and he made his debut with them at the Sebring 12 Hours, though did not finish. After that, he and Gerhard Mitter contested races at Brands Hatch, Monza, Nurburgring and the Targa Florio, with their best result a second in the 6Hour Brands Hatch event.
Sadly, the Monaco GP would be his last race as he was killed two weeks later in a hillclimb race near Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the German Alps. His Porsche 910 car veered abruptly off the track and down a tree-covered slope, finishing up hanging in the trees. Lodovico was thrown from the cockpit and sadly succumbed to his injuries
