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Gianpiero Moretti – Witness to the Times May 20, 2011 by Louis Galanos 7 Comments

By Paolo D’Alessio and edited by Louis Galanos

Gianpiero Moretti is the last real “gentleman driver” of our times. During his 37-year career he took part in hundreds of races and drove over 40 different types of cars creating a long-lasting bond between himself and Porsche as well as Ferrari with whom he lived some unforgettable moments of his career as racing driver and businessman.

This is how Mister Momo, as he is now known, recalls those days and speaks about them, saying, “I have observed the Audi and Peugeot cars that have raced this year at Sebring: beautiful cars indeed, a spectacular fusion of technology and aerodynamics, but there is no comparison to my Ferrari 512 S of 1970!”

So says Gianpiero Moretti, the last gentleman driver whose name is forever linked to two legends of high calibre in worldwide motor racing namely, Ferrari and Porsche.

For decades he was an ambassador for Italy in the world (even though he has a Swiss passport) for the Italian way of living, Italian cars, Italian culture and the cult of beauty.

Today, at the threshold of 70 spring seasons and having hung up his helmet a dozen years ago, Moretti watches the racing world that was his world for four decades with the same passion. He knows he has left his mark in history as well as unforgettable memories with those who knew him or worked with him. He knows he played an essential role in the races which, in those days, were more important than Formula 1 today, but he has no regrets towards the racing environment that, over these last years, has changed so dramatically.

His career began long ago in 1961, when he first got into the driver’s seat of a Lancia Appia Zagato to race both on track and in the uphill races. The then-political-science student at the University of Pavia showed how good he was at the steering wheel of a race car. He caught the attention of ASA builder, Giotto Bizzarrini, who even asked him to become their official driver for uphill races. However, nothing ever came of this offer mostly because he had two souls, that of racing driver and that of businessman.

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* According to a couple of books regarding Enzo Ferrari it was the English racing teams in the 1950’s that started calling Ferrari the “Drake.” Supposedly they considered him the Sir Francis Drake of the race track. Not so much the pirate, but the Queen’s man that defeated the Invincible Armada with determination, fighting character and winning intuition.

About the author Paolo D’Alessio: Born in 1957 in the province of Torino, D’Alessio began working as technical journalist and designer in the car related field in 1978. He collaborated with the most important specialist publications all over the world, contributing detailed articles, images and technical drawings of the most important Formula1 single-seaters of the last year’s competitions. Since the middle Eighties he’s dedicated himself entirely to the car ‘phenomenon’, in particular to car races. He works on corporate image, organizing exhibitions as well as lithographic prints, philatelic and numismatic collections. D’Alessio has also published several volumes. Paolo D’Alessio hasn’t limited his interests to automotive competition. In 1993, after taking a bachelor degree in architecture, he founded an industrial design firm called Multilinea. Since then, he’s been producing watches, bikes, means of transport, helmets, sport glasses, bags, writing sets, mowers, visual displays, air conditioning systems, for customers such as Momo design, Martini & Rossi, Mazda, Honda, Diavia, Momo, Philip Morris, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Ibea, Universal, Bieffe, Aura, Torino Incontra.

[Source: Paolo D’Alessio]