Chico Landi

Template:Short description Template:Portuguese name {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters | check | ignoreblank = y | unknown = Template:Main other | preview = Page using Template:Infobox F1 driver with unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | embed | child | subbox | name | Name | image | Image | image_size | upright | image_upright | alt | caption | birth_name | birth_date | birth_place | death_date | death_place | relations | relatives | nationality | Nationality | years | Years | teams | Teams | Team(s) | team | Team | engines | Engines | current_team | current team | Current team | 2025 Team | 2026 Team | car_number | car number | Car number | races | Races | championships | Championships | wins | Wins | podiums | Podiums | points | Points | poles | Poles | fastest_laps | fastest laps | Fastest laps | first_race | first race | First race | first_win | first win | First win | last_win | last win | Last win | last_race | last race | Last race | last_position | last position | Last position | last_season | last season | Last season | bf1_years | bf1 years | BF1 Years | bf1_races | bf1 races | BF1 Races | bf1_championships | bf1 championships | BF1 Championships | bf1_wins | bf1 wins | BF1 Wins | bf1_podiums | bf1 podiums | BF1 Podiums | bf1_points | bf1 points | BF1 Points | bf1_poles | bf1 poles | BF1 Poles | bf1_fastest_laps | bf1 fastest laps | BF1 Fastest laps | signature | signature_size | signature alt | signature_alt | website | module | module1 | module2 | module3 | module4 | module5 | record template1 | record template2 | record template3 | record template4 | record template5 | career template1 | career template2 | career template3 | career template4 | career template5 | updated | Updated }} Francisco Sacco Landi (July 14, 1907 – June 7, 1989), better known as Chico, was a racing driver from São Paulo, Brazil. He participated in six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 16, 1951. He scored a total of 1.5 championship points, awarded for his fourth-place finish in the 1956 Argentine Grand Prix, a drive he shared with Gerino Gerini. He was the first Brazilian ever to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix, and also the first to score points.

History

Landi came from a modest middle-class family of Italian origins, and got into racing through his father, who owned a garage in São Paulo. Along with Manuel de Teffé and Irineu Corrêa, he popularized motor racing in Brazil in the late mid-thirties. Landi had left school at eleven to work as a mechanic, and later began illegal street racing at nights, where he had frequent run-ins with the police.<ref name=Wolfe>Template:Citation</ref> In 1934 he made his racing debut, at the second Rio Grand Prix in 1934. He led until eight laps from the finish, when his engine gave out.<ref name=Wolfe101>Wolfe, p. 101</ref> He was the most popular Brazilian driver of his time, as many considered Teffé, who was the son of a diplomat of Prussian heritage, a wealthy expat rather than an actual Brazilian, as he had started his racing career while living in Europe. When Corrêa, who ended up winning the 1934 Rio Grand Prix, died in a crash on the first lap of next year, Landi was left as the undisputed master of pre-war racing in Brazil. Landi went abroad in 1938, finishing eighth at Bern in what is generally considered the first Brazilian Grand Prix entry.<ref name=Wolfe231>Wolfe, p. 231 (footnote)</ref> Landi's first Brazilian GP victory came at the 1941 Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix.<ref name=Wolfe101/>

Landi was the first Brazilian driver to win a Grand Prix race, taking a Ferrari to victory at the Bari Grand Prix in 1948,<ref name="RefA">Template:Cite book</ref> run that year to Formula Two regulations. He also finished second in the 1952 (non-championship) Albi Grand Prix in a Ferrari 375.<ref name ="RefA"/>

Landi also won the 1960 Mil Milhas Brasil in an Alfa Romeo JK 2000, together with Christian "Bino" Heins. This was the first time that a Brazilian-made car won this prestigious race, rather than an American-based "Carretera" special.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	WDC	Points
1951	Francisco Landi	Maserati 4CLT/48	Maserati Straight-4	SUI	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER DNA		ESP DNA		NC	0
		Ferrari 375/50	Ferrari V12							ITA Template:Small
1952	Escuderia Bandeirantes	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati Straight-6	SUI	500	BEL	FRA DNA	GBR	GER	NED 9†	ITA Template:Small		NC	0
1953	Escuderia Bandeirantes	Maserati A6GCM	Maserati Straight-6	ARG	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	SUI Template:Small		NC	0
	Scuderia Milano											ITA Template:Small
1956	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Maserati 250F	Maserati Straight-6	ARG Template:Small	MON	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA		25th	1.5

† Indicates Shared Drive with Jan Flinterman

* Indicates Shared Drive with Gerino Gerini

External links

• http://www.4mula1.ro/history/driver/Francisco_Landi
• http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/drv-lanfra.html

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