1. One of Italy's top racing drivers of the 1920s, Bordino won the 1922 Italian Grand Prix.
20 Facts About Pietro Bordino
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Pietro Bordino died in 1928 during practice for a race at Alessandria after he hit a dog, causing his car to overturn and land in a river, drowning him.
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Pietro Bordino was born on 22 November 1887 in Turin, His father got work as a caretaker at the new FIAT factory.
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Pietro Bordino accompanied Lancia in the 1905 Gordon Bennett Cup, finishing second, and they were second to Nazzaro in the 1907 Targa Florio.
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Pietro Bordino returned to Sicily after the Great War for the 12th Targa Florio in 1921.
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In that race the suspension of Pietro Bordino's Fiat had collapsed while he was leading, fortunately without significant injury.
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Overnight, Pietro Bordino became a national celebrity, and his hard-driving style in the red Fiats earned him the nickname of Diavolo Rosso.
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Giaccone died of his wounds later in hospital, while Pietro Bordino injured his neck and dislocated his shoulder.
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Pietro Bordino drove the race with his arm in a sling, and his riding mechanic helping to change gears.
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Pietro Bordino set the fastest lap before retiring from the excessive pain.
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In 1925, Pietro Bordino took a Fiat 805 across to America to run in the Indianapolis 500.
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Pietro Bordino had to stop early in the race to change spark-plugs that cost him two laps.
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When Fiat chose to stop its racing program for good, Pietro Bordino bought a new Bugatti Type 35B to race in the 1928 Italian Driver's Championship.
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Pietro Bordino led at the start, but after getting a puncture and falling two laps behind, he retired.
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The race was won by the veteran Campari in an Alfa Romeo, while Pietro Bordino finished two hours behind in sixteenth, after over 21 hours racing.
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Pietro Bordino took the opportunity in the intervening weekend for some race testing.
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Pietro Bordino had been offered a works drive by Bugatti for that race and the following Targa Florio.
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Pietro Bordino was just completing a lap, coming back into the city when a dog ran into the street in front of the car.
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Pietro Bordino was thrown from the car and found dead a few hundred metres downstream.
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Pietro Bordino was buried in the Cimitero Monumentale di Torino.