Antonio Brivio
 Brivio and co-driver Ongaro at 1936 Mille Miglia | |||||||
| Personal information | |||||||
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| Birth name | Antonio Brivio Sforza | ||||||
| Born | 27 December 1905 Biella, Piedmont, Italy | ||||||
| Died | 20 January 1995 (aged 89) Milan, Lombardy, Italy | ||||||
| Champ Car career | |||||||
| 1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
| Best finish | 9th (1936) | ||||||
| First race | 1936 Vanderbilt Cup (Westbury) | ||||||
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Antonio Brivio Sforza (occasionally seen as Marchese Sforza Brivio; 27 December 1905 – 20 January 1995) was an Italian racing driver and bobsledder.[1]
Auto racing career
[edit]Among Brivio's greatest successes in the field of sports cars include a victory in the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps (1932), two victories in the Targa Florio (1933 and 1935) and a win at the Mille Miglia (1936). His greatest successes in Grand Prix races were third places in the Monaco Grand Prix in 1935 and German Grand Prix in 1936. That year he won the pole position for the AAA-sanctioned Vanderbilt Cup, finishing third.[2] He stopped racing after winning Mille Miglia in his own category in 1952.
After the Second World War, Brivio was a motorsport functionary; he became a member of the Italian Automobile Club and the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), where he participated in the launch of the World Championship.
Bobsleigh career
[edit]As a bobsledder, Brivio won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1935 FIBT World Championships in Igls.
At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he finished tenth in the four-man event and 12th in the two-man event.
Motorsport career results
[edit]European Championship results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | EDC | Pts |
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| 1935 | Scuderia Ferrari | Alfa Romeo Tipo B/P3 | Alfa Romeo 2.9 L8 | MON 3 |
FRA | BEL | 19th | 50 | ||||
| Alfa Romeo 3.2 L8 | GER Ret |
SUI | ITA | ESP | ||||||||
| 1936 | Scuderia Ferrari | Alfa Romeo 8C-35 | Alfa Romeo 3.8 L8 | MON 5 |
7th | 23 | ||||||
| Alfa Romeo 12C 1936 | Alfa Romeo 4.1 V12 | GER 3 |
SUI | ITA | ||||||||
| 1937 | Scuderia Ferrari | Alfa Romeo 12C-36 | Alfa Romeo 4.1 V12 | BEL | GER | MON Ret |
SUI | ITA | 33rd | 39 | ||
Source:[3]
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References
[edit]- ^ "Motorsport Memorial -". www.motorsportmemorial.org. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ "Antonio Brivio". www.champcarstats.com. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ "THE GOLDEN ERA – OF GRAND PRIX RACING". kolumbus.fi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2016.