Gianpiero Moretti (20 March 1940 – 14 January 2012) was an Italian

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and the founder of the

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company in the 1960s. He was born in

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. Moretti won the

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, in 1998, driving a

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with co-drivers

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and

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. Moretti died on 14 January 2012 in Milan of

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. He was 71.

References

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