Lorenzo Bandini

Name: Lorenzo Bandini

Nationality: Italy

Date of birth: December 21, 1935 - North Africa

Date of death: May 10, 1967 - Monte Carlo

The best Italian F1 driver of the 1960s, Lorenzo Bandini spent much of his career playing second fiddle to John Surtees and only moved into the front line when the British driver quit the team after a row prior to the 1966 Le Mans endurance race. An easygoing and pleasant man with a happy disposition, Lorenzo's great day came when he won the first Austrian GP on the bumpy Zeltweg aerodrome circuit in the summer of 1964. This was an enormously popular win for the Italian driver who had great support within the Ferrari ranks and came barely a year after he'd won Le Mans with Lodovico Scarfiotti. In 1967 it seemed as though Bandini's career was really reaching full flower. He shared the winning Ferrari P4 sports cars at Daytona and Monza only to sustain fatal burns in the most gruesome and horrifying accident while chasing Denny Hulme's winning Brabham in the closing stages of the Monaco GP.

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