Carlo Salamano

{{short description|Italian racing driver (1891–1969)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Carlo Salamano

| birth_date = 1891

| birth_place = Turin, Italy

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1969|01|19|1891}}

| death_place = Turin, Italy

| occupation = Racing driver

| image = Carlo Salamano, vainqueur du premier Grand Prix d'Europe, en 1923.jpg

| caption = Salamano at 1923 Italian Grand Prix

}}

Carlo Salamano (1891{{cite book|title="Fiat": A Fifty Years' Record|year=1951|publisher=Arnoldo Mondadori|location=Verona|page=72|asin=B000H5C9XY}} - 19 January 1969) was an Italian racecar driver. A resident of Turin, in 1923 he drove a FIAT 805 to win the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the event also serving as the inaugural European Grand Prix;{{cite book|last=Dick|first=Robert|title=Auto Racing Comes of Age: A Transatlantic View of the Cars, Drivers and Speedways, 1900-1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUsm6HUfUOMC&dq=%22Carlo+Salamano%22&pg=PA221|accessdate=2017-01-05|year=2012|publisher=McFarland & Company|location=Jefferson, NC|isbn=978-0786466702|pages=221–222}} it was the first victory by an automobile equipped with a supercharger in a significant European event.{{cite book|last=Rendall|first=Ivan|title=The Power and the Glory: A Century of Motor Racing|year=1991|publisher=BBC Books|location=London|isbn=978-0563360933|page=[https://archive.org/details/powerglorycentur0000rend/page/89 89]|url=https://archive.org/details/powerglorycentur0000rend/page/89}} While an official championship had yet to be established, he was considered to be the season champion by historians.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Following his retirement from racing competition, Salamano acted as the leader of Fiat's vehicle testing department, being described as the company's "technical conscience".{{cite book|last=Ludvigsen|first=Karl E.|authorlink=Karl Ludvigsen|title=Creating the customer-driven car company|year=1996|publisher=International Thomson Business Press|location=London|isbn=978-1560918516|page=49}} He retired from Fiat in 1962.The Motor, Volume 121: 1962. Page 792.