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🇮🇹 Luigi Musso

Racing driver from Italy. Formula 1, Ferrari.
Driver facts
Full name
Luigi Musso
Born
28 July 1924(b. 1924)
Nationality
Italy
Current team
Ferrari
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
1
Career podiums
7
Career starts
25
Career DNFs
11
Racer Rating
6,124
Luigi Musso
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,124
Rank 147 of 40,105 indexed, -223 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Luigi Musso is a racing driver from Italy who last raced in Formula 1 for Ferrari. Musso has recorded 1 win and 7 podiums from 25 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,124 ranks Musso 147th of 40,105 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1958 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFMONBELNEDGBRITAARGMONGERITAARGFRAGBRGERITAITAARGMONNEDBELFRA
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1958-07-06Reims-GueuxFormula 1DNF−137
1958-06-15Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsFormula 1DNF−99
1958-05-26ZandvoortFormula 1P7+11
1958-05-18Circuit de MonacoFormula 1P2+106
1958-01-19Autódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezFormula 1P2+118
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+156Circuit de Pedralbes 1954Formula 1P2
+149Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez 1956Formula 1P1
+135Rouen-Les-Essarts 1957Formula 1P2
+129Aintree 1957Formula 1P2
+124Zandvoort 1955Formula 1P3
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Struggles
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza5 starts-14
Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez5 starts-3
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1958▸Formula 1Ferrari5022012P6−16,347
1957▸Formula 1Ferrari6022016P3+2226,349
1956▸Formula 1Ferrari411304P9+276,127
1955▸Formula 1Maserati601206P8+1586,100
1954▸Formula 1Maserati301206P7−525,943
1953▸Formula 1Maserati100000P14+4,6445,994
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Musso finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇫🇷 Jean Behra5,96824141058%
🇬🇧 Stirling Moss6,3302371630%
🇺🇸 Harry Schell6,08722111150%
🇦🇷 Juan Fangio6,8892131814%
🇬🇧 Mike Hawthorn6,5042191243%
🇬🇧 Peter Collins6,1241812667%
🇫🇷 Maurice Trintignant5,9611871139%
🇬🇧 Roy Salvadori5,678128467%
🇬🇧 Horace Gould5,0801211192%
🇮🇹 Eugenio Castellotti6,034116555%
🇮🇹 Nino FarinaHigher-rated, 1× champion6,49561517%
🇩🇪 Wolfgang von TripsHigher-rated6,33952340%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,105 drivers indexed
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Luigi Musso was an Italian racing driver who competed in Formula 1 from 1953 to 1958, primarily for Ferrari. He raced at the established professional level, with a rating of 6,124. Over six seasons he started 25 times, scored one win and seven podiums across the sport's premier single-seater championship.[1]

Musso's win came in the 1956 Argentine Grand Prix. His podium finishes came across his full career span, with two in his final season of 1958. He finished sixth in the 1958 championship standings. Among his peers were regular opponents in Jean Behra, whom he matched closely, and Stirling Moss, who more often finished ahead of him. He beat Juan Fangio, a five-time Formula 1 champion, twice across their meetings, and finished ahead of the 1958 champion Mike Hawthorn on six occasions.[2]

Musso raced in a field mixing amateur and semi-professional drivers with established graded professionals, all on the same grid. His record against drivers of Fangio's calibre, combined with his single win at Formula 1's highest level and regular podium appearances against Moss and other established competitors, places him as a capable front-running driver of his era, though not among the championship contenders.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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