Ludovico Scarfiotti

Interesting facts

His grandfather was among Fiat's founders and served as its first president, placing Scarfiotti squarely inside an Italian automotive dynasty. He married Ida Benignetti in 1966 and had two children from an earlier relationship. In 1963 he won the Le Mans 24 Hours alongside Lorenzo Bandini in a Ferrari 250P, then teamed with John Surtees to take the Sebring 12 Hours the same year. A hillclimb specialist, he claimed the European Hill Climb Championship's sports car class in both 1962 and 1965. His only Formula One victory came in front of the home crowd at the 1966 Italian Grand Prix in Monza, set at a record average of 220 km/h. He died on 8 June 1968 in a hillclimbing accident near Berchtesgaden, Germany, when his Porsche 910 veered off the Rossfeldstrasse course; he was found badly injured fifty metres away and died in the ambulance, the third Grand Prix driver to lose his life that year. Ludovico Scarfiotti raced in Formula 1 from 1963 to 1968, across 6 seasons as an Italian driver. He scored a total of 17 championship points over his career.