Gianfranco Brancatelli

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Gianfranco Brancatelli
Formula One World Championship career
Born	(1950-01-18) 18 January 1950
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1979
Teams	Kauhsen, Merzario
Races	3 (0 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1979 Spanish Grand Prix
Last race	1979 Monaco Grand Prix

Gianfranco Brancatelli (born 18 January 1950 in Turin, Piedmont) is a former racing driver from Italy. His racing career began in 1973, in the Formula Abarth series. In 1975, he advanced to Italian Formula 3 racing. Brancatelli entered 3 Formula One Grands Prix in 1979 with Kauhsen (2 failures to qualify) and Merzario (1 failure to pre-qualify).

After his departure from Formula 1, Brancatelli went on to race in several Touring Car series, with some success. Along with Swedish driver Thomas Lindström he won the 1985 European Touring Car Championship driving a Volvo 240 Turbo for Rudi Eggenberger, the pair winning six out of fourteen races. He drove a Rover Vitesse for TWR in the 1986 ETCC and a BMW M3 for Italian outfit CiBiEMME Sport in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship where he partnered another former Formula One driver Johnny Cecotto to win the 500 km de Bourgogne at Dijon-Prenois. He finished 9th in that championship while finishing 5th in the 1987 ETCC. The following season saw Brancatelli on the move again, this time going back to Eggenberger Motorsport where he would serve as a driver in the teams 3rd Texaco Ford Sierra RS500. Brancatelli would also win the 1988 Italian Touring Car Championship driving a privately entered Alfa Romeo 75.

Other than his success in the 1985 ETCC, arguably Brancatelli's biggest wins in touring car racing were the 1985 Guia Race of Macau driving a Volvo 240 Turbo and the 1989 Spa 24 Hours driving an Eggenberger Ford Sierra RS500 along with Bernd Schneider and Win Percy. He would continue racing until his retirement in the late 1990s.

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Yr	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Points
1979	Willi Kauhsen Racing Team	Kauhsen WK	Cosworth V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP DNQ	BEL DNQ										NC	0
1979	Team Merzario	Merzario A2	Cosworth V8							MON DNPQ	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	NC	0

References

Profile at F1 Rejects

Sporting positions
Preceded by Tom Walkinshaw	European Touring Car Champion 1985, with Thomas Lindström	Succeeded by Roberto Ravaglia
Preceded by Tom Walkinshaw	Guia Race winner 1985	Succeeded by Johnny Cecotto
Preceded by Michele di Gioia	Italian Touring Car Champion 1988	Succeeded by Johnny Cecotto

v t e European Touring Car Champions

1963: Peter Nöcker 1964: Warwick Banks 1965: Jacky Ickx & John Whitmore & Ed Swart 1966: Hubert Hahne & Andrea de Adamich & Giancarlo Baghetti 1967: Karl von Wendt & Andrea de Adamich & Willi Kauhsen 1968: Dieter Quester & John Rhodes & John Handley 1969: Dieter Quester & Spartaco Dini & Marsilio Pasotti 1970: Toine Hezemans 1971: Dieter Glemser 1972: Jochen Mass 1973: Toine Hezemans 1974: Hans Heyer 1975: Siegfried Müller Sr. & Alain Peltier 1976: Jean Xhenceval & Pierre Dieudonné 1977: Dieter Quester 1978: Umberto Grano 1979: Umberto Grano & Helmut Kelleners 1980: Umberto Grano & Helmut Kelleners 1981: Umberto Grano & Helmut Kelleners 1982: Umberto Grano 1983: Dieter Quester 1984: Tom Walkinshaw 1985: Gianfranco Brancatelli & Thomas Lindström 1986: Roberto Ravaglia 1987: Winfried Vogt 1988: Roberto Ravaglia

2000: Fabrizio Giovanardi 2001: Fabrizio Giovanardi & Peter Kox 2002: Fabrizio Giovanardi 2003: Gabriele Tarquini 2004: Andy Priaulx

Persondata
Name	Brancatelli, Gianfranco
Alternative names
Short description	Italian racing driver
Date of birth	18 January 1950
Place of birth
Date of death
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