11 Facts About Amedee Gordini

Amedeo "Amedee" Gordini was an Italian-born race car driver and sports car manufacturer in France.

Amedee Gordini was born in Bazzano, currently part of the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.

Amedee Gordini was a young boy when he became fascinated with automobiles and racing.

Amedee Gordini was a particular fan of the Fiat Balilla, released in early 1932.

In 1934 Amedee Gordini approached Henri Pigozzi, Fiat's French "General Representative".

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Amedee Gordini had already established a strong reputation as a racing driver and as an engineer with a specialist's understanding of Fiats.

Amedee Gordini rapidly found himself the head of the Simca motor racing department.

Amedee Gordini quickly showed a flair for improving the performance from the cars' basic Fiat designed engines without incurring massive expenditure, acquiring the sobriquet "le sorcier de la mecanique", and staying with Simca till 1951.

In 1952 Amedee Gordini founded the independent Amedee Gordini company to build a line of sports cars for racing.

Amedee Gordini died after several months of acute illness at the end of May 1979, in Paris, less than a month short of his eightieth birthday.

Amedee Gordini died a few weeks too early to be present for the first Formula 1 victory of the Renault V6 turbo racing engine, developed by the Renault Sport division into which he had merged his own company, and which he had built up since 1969.