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🇮🇹 Vittorio Brambilla

Racing driver from Italy. Formula 1, Alfa Romeo.
Driver facts
Full name
Vittorio Brambilla
Born
11 November 1937(b. 1937)
Nationality
Italy
Current team
Alfa Romeo
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
1
Career podiums
1
Career starts
74
Career DNFs
37
Racer Rating
5,813
Vittorio Brambilla
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,813
Rank 375 of 40,105 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Vittorio Brambilla is a racing driver from Italy who last raced in Formula 1 for Alfa Romeo. Brambilla has recorded 1 win and 1 podium from 74 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,813 ranks Brambilla 375th 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
1980 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFITAUSACANJPNARGSOUUSABELESPSWEFRAGBRGERAUTNEDITAITACANNEDITA
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1980-09-14Autodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariFormula 1DNF−131
1980-08-31ZandvoortFormula 1DNF−32
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+184Red Bull Ring 1975Formula 1P1
+141Zolder 1977Formula 1P4
+131Zandvoort 1976Formula 1P6
+129Montjuïc 1975Formula 1P5
+128Silverstone 1975Formula 1P6
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Red Bull Ring5 starts+45
Kyalami5 starts+17
Zandvoort6 starts+13
Zolder4 starts+5
Struggles
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza6 starts-29
Scandinavian Raceway5 starts-20
Circuit de Monaco4 starts-14
Watkins Glen International4 starts-6
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1980▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo200200P15−1635,813
1979▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo200100P16+585,976
1978▸Formula 1Surtees1200501P16−1245,918
1977▸Formula 1Surtees1700506P14+2826,042
1976▸Formula 1March16001101P15−385,760
1975▸Formula 1March1411917P10−1435,798
1974▸Formula 1March1100401P16+4,5915,941
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Brambilla finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇿🇦 Jody Scheckter6,39174165822%
🇬🇧 John Watson6,23873324144%
🇦🇷 Carlos Reutemann6,55271264537%
🇸🇪 Ronnie Peterson6,24270274339%
🇫🇷 Patrick Depailler6,04070244634%
🇬🇧 James Hunt5,91270244634%
🇧🇷 Emerson Fittipaldi5,82370254536%
🇦🇹 Niki Lauda6,27468214731%
🇩🇪 Jochen Mass6,09867313646%
🇨🇭 Clay Regazzoni6,21265214432%
🇧🇷 Nelson PiquetFIA Platinum, 3× champion6,71183538%
🇮🇹 Riccardo PatreseFIA Bronze6,4172415963%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,105 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
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370🇺🇸 Al KellerFormula 15,819
371🇧🇷 Hernando da Silva RamosFormula 15,816
372🇫🇷 Jacques PolletFormula 15,816
373🇳🇱 Renger van der ZandeIMSA WeatherTech5,815
374🏳️ Sam TingleFormula 15,813
375🇮🇹 Vittorio BrambillaFormula 15,813
376🇺🇸 George FollmerFormula 15,811
377🇺🇸 Fred AgabashianFormula 15,810
378🇺🇸 Ross ChastainNASCAR Cup Series5,810
379🇨🇦 Nicholas LatifiFormula 15,809
380🇺🇸 Danny SullivanFormula 15,808
381🇺🇸 Justin AllgaierNASCAR Xfinity5,805
382🇫🇷 Yves CabantousFormula 15,805
383🇺🇸 Kaden HoneycuttNASCAR Truck5,803
384🇩🇪 Max HesseGT World Challenge Europe5,803
385🇬🇧 Dan WheldonIndyCar5,800
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Vittorio Brambilla was an elite professional racing driver whose career rating of 6,963 places him among the strongest competitors outside the very top tier; this level describes a race winner at the top level who beats established professionals regularly but does not dominate the field. His Formula 1 career spanned seven seasons from 1974 to 1980, during which he started 74 races for Alfa Romeo and March, securing a single victory at the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix. That win came in a field that included multiple world champions and front-running drivers of the era, and it remains his sole podium finish across a career otherwise marked by consistent mid-field competence.[1]

Brambilla's head-to-head record against his era's strongest drivers reveals the gap between occasional victory and sustained excellence. Against established professionals and champions, he finished ahead of Carlos Reutemann six times across 23 shared races, and managed wins over both Jody Scheckter and Niki Lauda on individual occasions, yet remained heavily outmatched in season-long competition. His record against Scheckter stands at 3 wins from 27 meetings, and 3 from 24 against Lauda across three championship seasons, patterns that underscore his role as a capable but not elite competitor in the grid's strongest tier. His average finishing position across classified races of 9.4th confirms this placement; quick enough to score points regularly and beat the field's upper tier on occasion, but typically running behind the series' leading professionals.[2]

Most of Brambilla's opportunities came with March, which fielded him for 41 of his 74 starts without providing competitive machinery to match his talent. His later years saw him drop from contention, with his final two Formula 1 races in 1980 ending without a finish and a last-place classified result. The Austrian Grand Prix victory remains his sole monument from an otherwise unremarkable top-flight career, a single triumphant moment that has secured his place in Formula 1 history among the season's one-off winners.

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