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Carlo Felice Trossi

{{Short description|Italian racing driver (1908–1949)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox racing driver

| name = Carlo Felice Trossi

| image = Carlo Felice Trossi 1934 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Trossi in 1934

| birth_name = Carlo Felice Trossi

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|04|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Gaglianico, Piedmont, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|05|09|1908|04|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Milan, Lombardy, Italy

}}

Count Carlo Felice Trossi di Pian Villar (27 April 1908 – 9 May 1949) was an Italian racing driver and auto constructor.

Racing career

During Trossi's career, he raced for three different teams: Mercedes-Benz, Alfa Romeo and, briefly, Maserati. He won the 1947 Italian Grand Prix and the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix. He relieved playboy-driver Frederick McEvoy for 51 laps of the 75-lap 1936 Vanderbilt Cup;{{Cite web |title=Carlo Felice Trossi |url=http://www.champcarstats.com/drivers/TrossiCount.htm |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=www.champcarstats.com}} while the Australian started and finished the race, Trossi earned more points than him under the mileage-based AAA points system.{{Cite web |title=1936 AAA National Championship Trail |url=http://www.champcarstats.com/year/1936.htm |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=www.champcarstats.com}}

Image:Monaco-Trossi1935.jpg]]

Trossi backed one of the most unusual Grand Prix cars, the Trossi-Monaco of 1935. It featured a 16-cylinder, two-stroke cycle, two-row radial, air-cooled engine and an aircraft-like body designed by Augusto Monaco. The car was a spectacular failure and never raced in a Grand Prix event.Road & Track, April 1972.

Trossi had many exciting hobbies: racing boats and airplanes in addition to cars. He was also the president of the Scuderia Ferrari in 1932.

Enzo Ferrari said of Trossi: "He was a great racer but never wanted to make the effort to reach a dominant position and I remember him with emotion since he was one of the first to believe in my scuderia of which he was a part".Piloti Che Gente, Enzo Ferrari, 1893{{better source needed|date=November 2017}}

Personal life

Trossi was born in Gaglianico, Italy. He died of a brain tumor in Milan at 41 years of age.Saward, Joe. [http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ftjs016.html "Jean-Pierre Wimille: The man who would have been champion..."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010617084306/http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ftjs016.html |date=2001-06-17 }} at grandprix.com

Motorsports career results

= European Championship results =

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"

! Year

! Entrant

! Chassis

! Engine

! 1

! 2

! 3

! 4

! 5

! 6

! 7

! {{Tooltip|EDC|European Drivers' Championship}}

! Pts

1935

!nowrap| Scuderia Ferrari

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo Tipo B/P3

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo 3.2 L8s

|style="background:#CFCFFF;"| MON
{{small|Ret{{ref|1|1}}}}

| FRA

| BEL

| GER

| SUI

| ITA

| ESP

!colspan=2| —{{ref|1|1}}

rowspan=2| 1936

!rowspan=2| Scuderia Torino

!nowrap| Maserati V8RI

!nowrap| Maserati 4.8 V8s

|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| MON
{{small|Ret}}

|

|

|style="background:#CFCFFF;"| ITA
{{small|7}}

|

|

|

!rowspan=2| 7th

!rowspan=2| 23

nowrap| Maserati 4C 2500

!nowrap| Maserati 2.5 L4s

|

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| GER
{{small|8}}

| SUI

|

|

|

|

1937

!nowrap| Scuderia Ferrari

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo 12C-36

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo 4.1 V12s

|style="background:#FFCFCF;"| BEL
{{small|Ret}}

| GER

| MON

| SUI

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| ITA
{{small|8}}

|

|

! 17th

! 35

1938

!nowrap| Officine A. Maserati

!nowrap| Maserati 8CTF

!nowrap| Maserati 3.0 L8s

| FRA

| GER

| SUI

|style="background:#000000; color:white"| ITA
{{small|DSQ}}

|

|

|

! 36th

! 32

colspan=13|{{center|{{small|Source:{{cite web|url=http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/dt.htm#TR|title=Drivers – Carlo Felice Trossi|work=kolumbus.fi|accessdate=May 21, 2019|archive-date=July 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706025204/http://www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/dt.htm#TR|url-status=dead}}}}}}

;Notes

  • {{note|1|1}} – As a co-driver Trossi was ineligible for championship points

= Post-WWII Grandes Épreuves results =

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%"
Year

! Entrant

! Chassis

! Engine

! 1

! 2

! 3

! 4

1947

!nowrap| Alfa Corse

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo 158

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo 158 1.5 L8s

| style="background:#FFDF9F;"| SUI
{{small|3}}

| style="background:#FFDF9F;"| BEL
{{small|3}}

| style="background:#FFFFBF;"| ITA
{{small|1}}

| FRA

1948

!nowrap| Alfa Corse

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo 158

!nowrap| Alfa Romeo 158 1.5 L8s

| MON

| style="background:#FFFFBF;"| SUI
{{small|1}}

| FRA

| style="background:#EFCFFF;"| ITA
{{small|Ret}}

colspan=8|{{center|{{small|Source:{{cite web|url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/carlo-felice-trossi|title=Carlo Felice Trossi – Biography|work=MotorSportMagazine|accessdate=May 21, 2019}}}}}}

References

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! colspan="3" style="background: #99ff66;" | Sporting achievements

{{Succession box|title=European Hill Climb Champion
(for Racing Cars) |before=Rudolf Caracciola|after=Xavier Perrot
(1972)|years=1933}}

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Category:Counts in Italy

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