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Abate raced mostly for the private Italian team ]Scuderia Serenissima
Scuderia Serenissima and Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia were names used by Giovanni Volpi to enter his own cars in Formula One and sports car racing in the early 1960s.
Scuderia Serenissima was an auto racing team in the early 1960s. Funde ...
of Count Giovanni Volpi, but also for Scuderia Centro Sud
Scuderia Centro Sud was a privateer racing team founded in Modena by Guglielmo "Mimmo" Dei and active in Formula One and sports car racing between 1956 and 1965.
Dei had been an amateur driver in the 1930s. In the early 1950s he opened a Maser ...
, Scuderia Ferrari
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and the Porsche factory team. He won one of the rounds of 1962 World Sportscar Championship
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: The Trophée d'Auvergne on 15 July 1962.
In 1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wo ...
he tried participating in Formula One
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races, entering the 1962 Naples Grand Prix in a Porsche, finishing fourth. After crashing his Lotus 18/21
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** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae
** Lotus flower, a symbolically important aquatic Asian plant al ...
at his next race at Reims-Gueux
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, he withdrew his entry to his first World Championship event, the 1962 French Grand Prix
The 1962 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Rouen-Les-Essarts on 8 July 1962. It was race 4 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won by ...
, and later also entered and withdrew from 1962 German Grand Prix
The 1962 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Nürburgring on 5 August 1962. It was race 6 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 15-lap race w ...
. He returned to the track for the 1962 Mediterranean Grand Prix, where he came third. The following year, he drove a Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper
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to fifth place in the 1963 Imola Grand Prix, and came third at the 1963 Syracuse Grand Prix. After withdrawing his entry to the 1963 Italian Grand Prix
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, he retired from the sport at the end of the year, his greatest year, culminating with a win at the Targa Florio
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in a factory Porsche with Jo Bonnier
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Early life
Jo Bonnier was born in Stoc ...
.
Career results
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
Formula One World Championship results
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References
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1932 births
2019 deaths
Racing drivers from Turin
Italian Formula One drivers
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