Scuderia Centro Sud was a privateer racing team founded by Guglielmo "Mimmo" Dei that entered various Formula 1 and sports car between 1956 and 1965. Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel auto racing. ... Honda NSX sports car A sports car is a type of automobile designed for sporting performance. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
They were notable for entering a total of 49 World Championship rounds, with cars such as the Maserati 250F, various Maserati-powered Coopers and, in the 1960s, a BRM P57. They scored a total of 24 points (most of them thanks to driver Masten Gregory), but never won a race. Present Maserati logo Maserati is a famous Italian manufacturer of racing cars and sports cars, established in 1914 in Bologna. ... Present Maserati logo Maserati is a famous Italian manufacturer of racing cars and sports cars, established in 1914 in Bologna. ... Jack Brabhams 1961 Cooper-Climax, the car that began the rear-engine revolution at the Indianapolis 500 The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. ... British Racing Motors (generally known as BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team. ... Masten Gregory was a Formula One driver from the United States. ...
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Lorenzo Bandini (born 21 December 1935 in Cyrenaica, Libya; died 10 May 1967) was an Italian Formula One driver who raced for the ScuderiaCentroSud and Ferrari teams.
He then raced in Formula Junior, until in 1961 he was invited to join ScuderiaCentroSud in Formula One, at a non-championship race, in which he finished third.
Between 1964 and 1966, Bandini won the Le Mans 24 Hours race, along with Ludovico Scarfiotti; he also returned to ScuderiaCentroSud, but Ferrari claimed him back, where he ended up as the number one driver, replacing John Surtees who left in mid-season of 1966.
In the Spring of 1961 Mimmo Dei, the boss of the Scuderia Centro-Sud team, invited Bandini to race an F1 Cooper-Maserati at the non-championship Pau GP.
Scuderia Centro-Sud was closed down that winter but he had done enough to impress Enzo Ferrari and he was signed to be one of the drivers at Maranello for the 1962 season.
Bandini won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Lodovico Scarfiotti and then Mimmo Dei revived Scuderia Centro-Sud and bought a BRM and Bandini began racing that at the French GP.
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