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Scuderia Finotto was a motor racing team from Italy, founded by
Jürg Dubler Jürg is the name of: * Jürg Amann (1947–2013), Swiss author and dramatist * Jürg Baur (1918–2010), German composer and teacher of classical music * Jürg Berger (born 1954), retired Swiss professional ice hockey forward * Jürg Capol (bor ...
. It raced in Formula One in 1974, using customer
Brabham Brabham () is the common name for Motor Racing Developments Ltd., a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by Australian driver Jack Brabham and British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four ...
cars.


Formula One

For the season,
Martino Finotto Martino Finotto (born 11 November 1933 in Camporosso, Liguria, died 13 August 2014) was an Italian racing driver, mainly known for his success in Touring car racing, touring car and sports car racing. In 1979, he was the European Touring Car Ch ...
bought two
Brabham Brabham () is the common name for Motor Racing Developments Ltd., a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by Australian driver Jack Brabham and British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four ...
BT42s, and leased both cars to the Swiss Jürg Dubler, a retired racing driver. Jürg Dubler entered both cars for the 1974 Spanish Grand Prix sponsored by
Silvio Moser Silvio Moser (24 April 1941 – 26 May 1974) was a racing driver from Switzerland. Early life and career Moser began his career in the early sixties, racing Alfa Romeos and moved to single seaters in 1964, with a good deal of success both in Eu ...
's backer Bretscher, one for Silvio Moser and the other for the Swede
Reine Wisell Reine Wisell (30 September 1941 – 20 March 2022) was a Swedish racing driver. He participated in 23 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 4 October 1970. He achieved 1 podium, and scored a total of 13 championship points. C ...
, but one week before that race Moser was seriously injured during a sportscar race at Monza and died four weeks later. The team had only one full-time mechanic, New Zealander John R.Anderson, and an engine builder, Englishman R.John Leslie, and used Lino Branca's workshop in Buscate and Novamotor's engine dyno. The team had no spare parts for the cars so often had to rob parts from one car to keep the other running. Dubler bought one new Cosworth DFV but this destroyed itself during testing before the French GP. The other two engines supplied by Brabham with the cars were old small port engines that were less powerful and unreliable.
Gérard Larrousse Gérard Gilles Marie Armand Larrousse (born 23 May 1940) is a former sports car racing, rallying and Formula One driver from France. His greatest success as a driver was winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1973 and 1974 24 ...
first drove for the team in
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. He qualified 28th and retired on lap 53 because of tyre problems. Larrousse also tried to qualify in
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but failed to do so.
Helmuth Koinigg Helmuth Koinigg (3 November 1948 – 6 October 1974) was an Austrian racing driver who died in a crash in the 1974 United States Grand Prix, in his second Grand Prix start. Racing career Koinigg was born in Vienna. Like several other Formula One ...
drove for the team in
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but failed to qualify. The last outing for Scuderia Finotto came in
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when
Carlo Facetti Carlo Giovanni Facetti (born 26 June 1935) is a former racing driver from Italy, mainly known for his success in touring car and sports car racing. In his single attempt at Formula One he failed to qualify for the 1974 Italian Grand Prix with a ...
failed to qualify. Cees Siewertsen tested for Scuderia Finotto at the Casale circuit in Milan with the possibility of participation at the Dutch GP.
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and
Andy Sutcliffe Andy Sutcliffe (9 May 1947 – 13 July 2015) was a British racing driver from England. Born in Mildenhall, Suffolk, Sutcliffe began his racing career in 1969. He competed in Formula Three from 1970 to 1973, before contesting the 1974 European F ...
were associated with participation in the Grands Prix of
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and
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, but the team never arrived. The same happened for
Jean-Louis Lafosse Jean-Louis Lafosse (15 March 1941 – 13 June 1981) was a French racing driver. He was most closely associated with the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, in which he finished second in 1975 and 1976. In the European Touring Car Championship, he won the 19 ...
who had been initially entered for the Italian GP.


Complete Formula One World Championship results

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