Consalvo Sanesi

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Consalvo Sanesi
Nationality	Italian
World Championship Career
Active years	1950 – 1951
Team(s)	Alfa Romeo
Races	5
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1950 Italian Grand Prix
Last race	1951 British Grand Prix

Consalvo Sanesi (b. 28 March 1911, Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo - d. 28 July 1998, Milan) was best known as the Alfa Romeo works' test driver in the period following WWII, but he also competed in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 3, 1950. Although, on his day, his experience with the cars meant that he was often one of the fastest men on the racetrack, somehow this rarely translated into good results. He scored only 3 championship points. He found some success driving in sports car racing, continuing into the mid-1960s.

On the 1953 Mille Miglia he posted the fastest stage average speed, 112.8mph, beating greats such as Nino Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio, but on this occasion his car let him down and he failed to finish.^[1] A year later he won his class in the Carrera Panamericana. He gave up front line racing following a near-death accident during the 1964 12 Hours of Sebring race, when following a crash his Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ burst into flames. Only the prompt and courageous actions of Jocko Maggiocommo, a fellow driver watching at the trackside who dived into the flames and pulled Sanesi clear, saved his life.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Team
1950	Alfa	GBR	MON	IND	SWI	BEL	FRA	ITA		Alfa
1951	Alfa	SWI	IND	BEL	FRA	GBR	DEU	ITA	SPA	Alfa

[edit] References

1. ^ Public Proving Ground. TIME. Retrieved on April 5, 2007.