Editing Cesare Perdisa (section)

==Racing career==
Cesare Perdisa was born on 21 October 1931 in [[Bologna]], Emilia-Romagna, Italy.<ref name="WATN">{{cite web |url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Cesare_Perdisa |title=The World Championship drivers - Where are they now? |accessdate=29 July 2007 |last=Jenkins |first=Richard |publisher=OldRacingCars.com |archive-date=22 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822005338/http://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Cesare_Perdisa |url-status=live }}</ref> His father, {{ill|Luigi Perdisa|it}}, was an [[agronomist]] from [[Ravenna]] and the editor of one of Italy's most popular magazines on agriculture, ''{{ill|Terra e Vita|it}}'';{{efn|name=TeV}} he was also a professor and faculty [[Dean (education)|dean]] at the [[University of Bologna]], founder of the [[publishing house]] {{ill|Edagricole|it}}, and was appointed a [[Order of Merit for Labour|Knight of the Order of Merit for Labour]] in 1976. Perdisa's older brother, Sergio, was to follow his father footsteps and join a publishing house specialized in books on farming but Cesare was more interested in a racing career. His Formula One debut was at the [[1955 Monaco Grand Prix]] where he finished third on a [[Maserati]] behind [[Maurice Trintignant]] in a [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] and [[Eugenio Castellotti]] in a [[Lancia]]. Castellotti and Perdisa were significantly younger than the majority of the drivers around at the time, and forged a friendship that would last until Castellotti's death in 1957.<ref>''Motor Car Sports'', New York Times, 20 March 1957, Page 44.</ref>

During the course of his brief racing career,  possibly due to his young age, Perdisa was often asked to give his car to his more experienced teammates when they encountered troubles. This happened, for example, on the 11th lap of the [[1956 Belgian Grand Prix]], when [[Stirling Moss]] lost the right rear wheel of his [[Maserati in motorsport|Maserati]]. Moss brought his car to a stop and ran a quarter of a mile back to the pits where he took over Perdisa's Maserati, which he drove to the finish.<ref>''Collins Auto First In Belgian Contest'', New York Times, 4 June 1956, Page 34.</ref>

In January 1957 at the Argentine Grand Prix Perdisa gave his Ferrari to [[Wolfgang von Trips]] first and then to [[Peter Collins (racing driver)|Peter Collins]] in an attempt to stop Juan-Manuel Fangio's dominance on his Maserati. Despite their best efforts, the trio couldn't keep up with Fangio and finished sixth. In March 1957 Perdisa was set to participate to the [[12 Hours of Sebring]] but he withdrew his entry after he learned of the death of his teammate [[Eugenio Castellotti]] at the [[Modena Autodrome]]. Castellotti succumbed to his injuries after crashing a [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] he was testing for the event. Although Perdisa initially declared his decision to be of a temporary nature, his inability to overcome the shock for the loss of Castellotti eventually brought him to permanently retire from racing.<ref name="death">''Italian Out Of Race'', New York Times, 17 March 1957, Page S4.</ref>