Ludovico Scarfiotti

Scarfiotti began racing for Ferrari from 1960 onwards. In October 1962 he finished third in the 1,000 Kilometres de Paris alongside teammate Colin Davis. The event was won by Pedro Rodríguez and Ricardo Rodríguez driving a Ferrari. Scarfiotti also won the sportscar class of the European Hillclimb Championship in 1962 and again in 1965.

Partnered with Lorenzo Bandini, Scarfiotti won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June 1963. Their factory Ferrari achieved an average speed of 117.99 miles per hour over a distance of 2,832 miles (4,558 km). The victory was worth almost $20,000 in prize money and gave Ferrari its fourth consecutive Le Mans victory. Together with his win at the 12 Hours of Sebring the same year, these results prompted his Formula One debut with Ferrari at the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix.

In 1965, Scarfiotti and John Surtees shared a Ferrari 330 P2 Spyder to win the 1000 km Nürburgring, leading throughout the 44 laps to post a winning time of 6 hours, 53 minutes, and 5 seconds, for an average speed of 90.46 mph (145.58 km/h) — giving Ferrari a fourth consecutive victory at that race.

Enzo Ferrari signed Scarfiotti to the Ferrari Formula One team for 1963 alongside Surtees, Willy Mairesse, Bandini, and Nino Vaccarella. Scarfiotti placed sixth in the second Ferrari at the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, a lap behind winner Jim Clark in a Lotus. He finished fifth in the non-championship 1965 Syracuse Grand Prix in Sicily.

Scarfiotti achieved his sole Formula One victory at the 1966 Italian Grand Prix, driving his Ferrari to a track record speed of 136.7 mph (220.0 km/h). Following the death of Bandini from burns sustained during the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix, Ferrari entered two F1 cars for Scarfiotti and Mike Parkes in the non-championship 1967 Syracuse Grand Prix. Scarfiotti drove a 1966 3-litre Ferrari 312 while Parkes drove a 1967 car. They shared victory, crossing the finish line in an unusual dead heat, clocked at 113.65 mph (182.90 km/h) with an official time of 1 hour 40 minutes 58 seconds for the 191.2-mile (307.7 km) race.

At the 1967 Dutch and Belgian Grands Prix, both Parkes and Scarfiotti were part of a three-car Scuderia Ferrari, producing a 4-5-6 finish at the Dutch GP. At Spa, Parkes had a career-ending accident while Scarfiotti finished four laps behind and was not classified. For the remainder of the 1967 season, Ferrari entered only one car, for Chris Amon. At his home race at Monza, Scarfiotti secured a drive in the second All American Racers Eagle Mk1, but both Weslake V12 engines failed early in the race.

With Ferrari hiring Jacky Ickx and Amon for 1968, there was no place for Scarfiotti, who entered F1 races for Cooper instead. Brian Redman and Scarfiotti came in third and fourth respectively at the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama, both driving for Cooper. In his final Formula One appearance, Scarfiotti placed fourth at the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix, a race marked by mechanical breakdowns that eliminated 11 of 16 starters before completion.

Surtees severed relations with Ferrari following their decision to replace him with Scarfiotti at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. Scarfiotti finished 31st, retiring after 123 laps.

Scarfiotti and Bandini drove a 2-litre Dino 206 S to second place in the 1966 1,000 kilometre Nürburgring, finishing 90 seconds behind the Chaparral of Phil Hill and Joakim Bonnier, which debuted the automatic transmission in European competition.

Teamed with Parkes in a Ferrari P4 coupe, Scarfiotti finished second behind the sister P4 spyder of Bandini and Amon at the 24 Hours of Daytona, with Ferrari taking the first three positions. The same result occurred at the Monza 1,000 km in April. At the 1967 1000 km Spa, joined by Parkes in a Ferrari P4, they finished a lap behind Jacky Ickx and Richard Thompson, who drove a Ford Mirage. Scarfiotti and Parkes also finished second at the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans, behind the Ford Mark IV driven by A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney.

After Günter Klass was killed in July 1967, Ferrari retired the two-litre Dino 206S prototypes used in hillclimbing. Following rule changes for the 1968 World Sportscar Championship that limited prototypes to 3-litre engines and Ferrari's protest withdrawal from the series, Scarfiotti joined Porsche for hillclimbing. He entered the 1968 Targa Florio but wrecked his Porsche 907 on the first day of qualifying and was forced to race the T-car, which did not complete the 720-kilometre road race.

Scarfiotti died on 8 June 1968 at a hillclimbing event on the Roßfeldhöhenringstraße near Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the German Alps. He wrecked his Porsche 910 during trials when the car veered abruptly off the track and catapulted ten yards down a tree-covered slope. The Porsche hung in the trees and Scarfiotti was thrown from the cockpit, found badly injured fifty yards away. He died in an ambulance of numerous fractures. Porsche team manager Huschke von Hanstein stated that he had never been associated with a fatal accident in his eighteen years in charge of the team. Some 60 yards (55 m) of burned rubber braking indicated that Scarfiotti had slammed on his brakes at the final moment. He became the third Grand Prix driver to die in 1968, following Jim Clark and Mike Spence.

Scarfiotti was married to Ida Benignetti and had two children from a previous relationship.

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