Chico Landi participated in six Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on September 16,1951.
11 Facts About Chico Landi
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Chico Landi 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.
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Chico Landi was the first Brazilian ever to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix, and the first to score points.
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Chico 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.
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Chico Landi led until eight laps from the finish, when his engine gave out.
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Chico Landi was the most popular Brazilian driver of his time, as many considered Teffe, 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.
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When Correa, who ended up winning the 1934 Rio Grand Prix, died in a crash on the first lap of next year, Chico Landi was left as the undisputed master of pre-war racing in Brazil.
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Chico Landi went abroad in 1938, finishing eighth at Bern in what is generally considered the first Brazilian Grand Prix entry.
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Chico Landi was the first Brazilian driver to win a Grand Prix race, taking a Ferrari to victory at the Bari Grand Prix in 1948, run that year to Formula Two regulations.
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Chico Landi finished second in the 1952 Albi Grand Prix in a Ferrari 375.
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Chico Landi won the 1960 Mil Milhas Brasil in an Alfa Romeo JK 2000, together with Christian "Bino" Heins.