Mauro Baldi

Mauro Baldi
Mauro Baldi
	Baldi at the 1982 Dutch Grand Prix
Born	Mauro Giuseppe Baldi; 31 January 1954 (age 70); Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1982–1985
Teams	Arrows, Alfa Romeo, Spirit
Entries	41 (36 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	5
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1982 South African Grand Prix
Last entry	1985 San Marino Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1984–1986, 1988–1989, 1991–1994, 1997–2000
Teams	Martini, Porsche, Sauber, Peugeot, Konrad, Moretti, JB, Panoz
Best finish	1st (1994)
Class wins	1 (1994)

Mauro Giuseppe Baldi (born 31 January 1954) is an Italian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1982 to 1985. In endurance racing, Baldi won the World Sportscar Championship in 1990 with Sauber, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1994 with Porsche; he won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1998 and is a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona with Doran.

Baldi is one of 11 drivers to complete the informal Triple Crown of endurance racing, achieving the feat at the 1998 12 Hours of Sebring.

Biography

Mauro Giuseppe Baldi was born on 31 January 1954 in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna.^[1]

Baldi started his career in rallying in 1972 and turned to circuit racing in 1975 with the Italian Renault 5 Cup. By 1980 he had become a top Formula 3 driver, winning the Monaco F3 Grand Prix and the 1981 European Formula 3 Championship with eight victories. In 1982 he signed to drive for Arrows before moving to Alfa Romeo in 1983, scoring a fifth place in Zandvoort. When Benetton became Alfa Romeo's team sponsor in 1984, Baldi lost his drive, and joined the underfunded Spirit team until 1985.

After retiring from Formula One he went to enjoy a successful career in sports car racing, driving for the works Martini-Lancia team in 1984 and 1985. In 1986, he switched to a Porsche 956 from Richard Lloyd Racing's outfit, returning to a works drive in 1988 with the Sauber-Mercedes team, with whom Baldi won the 1990 FIA World Sports Prototype Championship for Drivers, sharing the car with Jean-Louis Schlesser. In 1991 and 1992 he was a driver for Peugeot.

He came very close to making a return to F1 in 1989, when he agreed with Coloni to take over one of the team's cars from Enrico Bertaggia for the Italian Grand Prix. The move was blocked by Jochen Neerpasch, the sporting director of Mercedes, his then sportscar team.^[2] Later he had a brief return to F1 in 1990, doing most of the test driving for the Modena Lambo project.

Returning to sports cars, he won the Le Mans 24 Hours race in 1994, sharing the "road-going" Dauer 962 Le Mans (a modified Porsche 962) with Yannick Dalmas and Hurley Haywood. He also won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1998 and 2002, and the 12 Hours of Sebring, again in 1998, with Arie Luyendyk and Didier Theys.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
1976	Coppa Renault 5 Elf		11	1	?	?	5	80	3rd
1977	Coppa Renault 5 Elf		10	3	?	4	7	95	1st
1977	Renault 5 European Cup		?	2	?	1	4	52	1st
1978	Italian Formula Three		?	?	?	?	?	26	7th
1978	European Formula Three	Scuderia Tricolore	2	0	0	0	1	4	16th
1979	Italian Formula Three		?	1	?	1	?	35	3rd
1979	European Formula Three	Scuderia Tricolore	10	0	1	1	3	22	4th
1980	European Formula Three	Mauro Baldi	14	3	2	3	5	45	4th
	Italian Formula Three		?	?	?	?	?	13	8th
	German Formula Three	Automobiles Martini	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1981	European Formula Three	Euroracing	14	8	7	6	11	94	1st
	Italian Formula Three		?	?	?	?	?	27	6th
	German Formula Three		1	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
1982	Formula One	Arrows Racing Team	11	0	0	0	0	2	25th
1982	World Sportscar Championship	Momo Racing	3	0	0	0	0	11	38th
1983	Formula One	Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo	15	0	0	0	0	3	16th
1984	Formula One	Spirit Racing	7	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	World Sportscar Championship	Martini Racing	4	0	0	0	1	28	19th
	World Sportscar Championship	Jolly Club	1	0	0	0	0	28	19th
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Martini Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
1985	World Sportscar Championship	Martini Racing	7	1	0	0	2	36	13th
	IMSA GT Championship	Bayside Disposal	2	0	0	0	2	0	NC
	Formula One	Spirit Enterprises Ltd.	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Martini Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	7th
1986	World Sportscar Championship	Liqui Moly Equipe	5	1	0	0	2	38	9th
1986	24 Hours of Le Mans	Liqui Moly Equipe	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	9th
1987	World Sportscar Championship	Liqui Moly Equipe/Britten-Lloyd Racing	9	1	1	0	3	58	8th
	All-Japan Sports Prototype Championship	Toyota Team TOM'S	1	0	0	0	0	12	22nd
	World Touring Car Championship	CiBiEmme Sport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1988	World Sportscar Championship	Team Sauber Mercedes	10	2	7	2	7	188	3rd
	IMSA GT Championship	Busby Racing	6	0	1	0	2	50	13th
	1988 24 Hours of Le Mans	Team Sauber Mercedes	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNS
1989	World Sportscar Championship	Team Sauber Mercedes	8	3	5	4	6	102	3rd
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Team Sauber Mercedes	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	2nd
	IMSA GT Championship	Momo-Gebhardt Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1990	World Sportscar Championship	Team Sauber Mercedes	9	6	7	3	6	49.5	1st
1990	IMSA GT Championship	Busby Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1991	World Sportscar Championship	Peugeot Talbot Sport	7	1	0	0	3	69	3rd
1991	24 Hours of Le Mans	Peugeot Talbot Sport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
1992	World Sportscar Championship	Peugeot Talbot Sport	6	2	0	1	4	64	3rd
1992	24 Hours of Le Mans	Peugeot Talbot Sport	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
1993	Italian Superturismo Championship	Peugeot Talbot Sport	1	0	0	0	0	6	22nd
1993	24 Hours of Le Mans	Peugeot Talbot Sport	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
1994	IMSA GT Championship	Euromotorsport	3	0	1	0	0	13	43rd
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Le Mans Porsche Team / Joest Racing	1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
	SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge	Porsche	?	1	?	?	?	0	NC
	PPG Indy Car World Series	Payton/Coyne Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
1995	IMSA GT Championship	Scandia Racing Team	11	1	4	1	5	245	3rd
1996	IMSA GT Championship	Scandia Racing Team	2	0	0	0	1	29	33rd
1997	FIA GT Championship	JB Racing	5	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	FIA GT Championship	Konrad Motorsport	4	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Konrad Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
1998	IMSA GT Championship	Momo Doran Racing	1	1	0	0	1	0	NC
	International Sports Racing Series	JB Racing Giesse Team Ferrari	1	0	0	1	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Moretti Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	14th
	24 Hours of Daytona	Doran/Moretti Racing	1	1	0	1	1	N/A	1st
1999	SportsRacing World Cup	JB Giesse Team Ferrari	8	1	0	1	4	85	5th
	American Le Mans Series	Doran Enterprises	3	0	0	0	1	31	34th
	24 Hours of Le Mans	JB Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
2000	SportsRacing World Cup	R&M	6	1	0	1	3	51	12th
	Grand American Road Racing Championship	Doran/Lista Racing	2	1	0	0	1	85	24th
	American Le Mans Series	Doran/Lista Racing	1	0	0	0	0	20	40th
	24 Hours of Le Mans	Team Den Blå Avis	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	NC
2001	Grand American Road Racing Championship	Lista Doran Racing	7	2	1	0	6	267	8th
2001	FIA Sportscar Championship	R&M	8	0	0	0	2	41	13th
2002	FIA Sportscar Championship	R&M	5	0	0	0	3	44	5th
	Rolex Sports Car Series	Doran Lista Racing	4	2	0	0	3	130	7th
	American Le Mans Series		1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Daytona		1	1	?	?	1	N/A	1st
2003	FIA Sportscar Championship	R&M	1	0	0	0	0	5	27th
	Rolex Sports Car Series	Ferri Competizione	1	0	0	0	0	26	28th
	American Le Mans Series	Ferri Competizione	1	0	0	0	0	4	60th

^† As Baldi was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Complete European Formula 3 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos.	Pts
1978	Mauro Baldi	Toyota	ZAN	NÜR	ÖST	ZOL	IMO DNQ	NÜR	DIJ	MNZ DNQ	PER 11	MAG	KNU	KAR	DON	KAS	JAR	VLL 3	16th	4
1979	Mauro Baldi	Toyota	VLL 3	ÖST Ret	ZOL Ret	MAG 9	DON Ret	ZAN 2	PER 5	MNZ 2	KNU Ret	KIN Ret	JAR	KAS					4th	22
1980	Ecurie Oreca	Renault	NÜR 4	ÖST 8	ZOL 15	MAG 5	ZAN 1	LAC 3	MUG 3	MNZ 18	MIS 1	KNU 11		JAR 1	KAS 5	ZOL 4			4th	45
1980	Ecurie Oreca	Toyota											SIL Ret						4th	45
1981	Euroracing	Alfa Romeo	VLL 1	NÜR 5	DON 6	ÖST 1	ZOL 1	MAG 2	LAC 6	ZAN 1	SIL 2	CET 1	MIS 1	KNU 1	JAR 2	IMO 1	MUG DNS		1st	94

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1982	Arrows Racing Team	Arrows A4	Cosworth V8	RSA DNQ	BRA 10	USW DNQ	SMR	BEL NC	MON DNQ	DET Ret	CAN 8	NED 6	GBR 9	FRA Ret	GER Ret	AUT 6	SUI DNQ		CPL 11	25th	2
1982	Arrows Racing Team	Arrows A5	Cosworth V8															ITA 12		25th	2
1983	Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo	Alfa Romeo 183T	Alfa Romeo V8	BRA Ret	USW Ret	FRA Ret	SMR 10	MON 6	BEL Ret	DET 12	CAN 10	GBR 7	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED 5	ITA Ret	EUR Ret	RSA Ret		16th	3
1984	Spirit Racing	Spirit 101	Hart Straight-4	BRA Ret	RSA 8	BEL Ret	SMR 8	FRA Ret	MON DNQ	CAN	DET	DAL	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	EUR 8	POR 15	NC	0
1985	Spirit Enterprises Ltd.	Spirit 101D	Hart Straight-4	BRA Ret	POR Ret	SMR Ret	MON	CAN	DET	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	BEL	EUR	RSA	AUS	NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1984	Martini Racing	Paolo Barilla Hans Heyer	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C1	275	DNF	DNF
1985	Martini Lancia	Henri Pescarolo	Lancia LC2-Ferrari	C1	358	7th	7th
1986	Liqui Moly Equipe	Price Cobb Rob Dyson	Porsche 956 GTi	C1	318	9th	7th
1988	Team Sauber Mercedes	James Weaver Jochen Mass	Sauber C9-Mercedes	C1	-	DNS	DNS
1989	Team Sauber Mercedes	Kenny Acheson Gianfranco Brancatelli	Sauber C9-Mercedes	C1	384	2nd	2nd
1991	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Philippe Alliot Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Peugeot 905	C1	22	DNF	DNF
1992	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Philippe Alliot Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Peugeot 905 Evo 1B	C1	345	3rd	3rd
1993	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Philippe Alliot Jean-Pierre Jabouille	Peugeot 905 Evo 1B	C1	367	3rd	3rd
1994	Le Mans Porsche Team Joest Racing	Yannick Dalmas Hurley Haywood	Dauer 962 Le Mans	GT1	344	1st	1st
1997	Konrad Motorsport	Franz Konrad Robert Nearn	Porsche 911 GT1	GT1	138	DNF	DNF
1998	Moretti Racing	Gianpiero Moretti Didier Theys	Ferrari 333 SP	LMP1	311	14th	3rd
1999	JB Racing	Jérôme Policand Christian Pescatori	Ferrari 333 SP	LMP	71	DNF	DNF
2000	Team Den Blå Avis	John Nielsen Klaus Graf	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	205	NC	NC

American Open Wheel racing results

(key)

IndyCar World Series

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Rank	Points	Ref
1994	Payton/Coyne Racing	SRF	PHX	LBH	INDY	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIS	MDO 19	NHM	VAN	ROA	NZR	LAG	47th	0	^[3]

References

^ "Pilote des 24 heures du Mans : Mauro Giuseppe Baldi". www.24h-en-piste.com (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2023.
^ "Speciale Monza: Prosegue Bertaggia" [Monza Special: Bertaggia continues]. AutoSprint (in Italian). Italy: AutoSprint. 4 September 1989.
^ "Mauro Baldi – 1994 CART Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 5, 2023.

Sources

Profile at www.grandprix.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Yves Frémont	Coupe d'Europe Renault 5 Alpine Champion 1977	Succeeded by Wolfgang Schütz
Preceded by Alain Prost	Monaco Formula Three Race Winner 1980	Succeeded by Alain Ferté
Preceded by Michele Alboreto	European Formula Three Championship Champion 1981	Succeeded by Oscar Larrauri
Preceded by Jean-Louis Schlesser	World Sportscar Championship Champion 1990 With: Jean-Louis Schlesser	Succeeded by Teo Fabi
Preceded by Geoff Brabham Christophe Bouchut Éric Hélary	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1994 With: Yannick Dalmas & Hurley Haywood	Succeeded by Yannick Dalmas J.J. Lehto Masanori Sekiya

[1] "Pilote des 24 heures du Mans : Mauro Giuseppe Baldi". www.24h-en-piste.com (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2023.

[2] "Speciale Monza: Prosegue Bertaggia" [Monza Special: Bertaggia continues]. AutoSprint (in Italian). Italy: AutoSprint. 4 September 1989.

[3] "Mauro Baldi – 1994 CART Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 5, 2023.

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v t e Winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Nine-time	Tom Kristensen
Six-time	Jacky Ickx
Five-time	Derek Bell Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro
Four-time	Sébastien Buemi Yannick Dalmas Olivier Gendebien Henri Pescarolo
Three-time	Woolf Barnato Rinaldo Capello Luigi Chinetti Marcel Fässler Brendon Hartley Hurley Haywood Phil Hill Al Holbert André Lotterer Klaus Ludwig Allan McNish Kazuki Nakajima Benoît Tréluyer Marco Werner
Two-time	Fernando Alonso Earl Bamber Timo Bernhard Tim Birkin Ivor Bueb Romain Dumas Ron Flockhart Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Gérard Larrousse JJ Lehto Manuel Reuter André Rossignol Raymond Sommer Hans-Joachim Stuck Gijs van Lennep Jean-Pierre Wimille Alexander Wurz
One-time	Aïello Alboreto Amon Ara Attwood Baldi Bandini Barilla Barth Benjafield Benoist Bianchi Bloch Blundell Bouchut D. Brabham G. Brabham Brundle Calado Chaboud Clement Cobb Conway Davis de Courcelles Dickens Duff Dumfries Duval Étancelin Fontés Foyt Frère Fuoco Gachot Gené Giovinazzi González Gregory Guichet Gurney Hamilton Hawthorn Hélary Herbert Herrmann G. Hill Hindmarsh Hirakawa Howe Hülkenberg Jani Johansson Jones Kidston Kobayashi Krages Lagache Lammers Lang Léonard Lieb López Marko Martini Mass McLaren Mitchell-Thomson Molina J. Nielsen N. Nielsen Nuvolari Oliver Ortelli Pier Guidi Pironi Riess Rindt Rockenfeller Rodríguez Rolt Rondeau J. Rosier L. Rosier Rubin Salvadori Sanderson Scarfiotti Schuppan Sekiya Shelby Smith Tandy Trémoulet Trintignant Vaccarella Veyron Walker Wallace Warwick Weidler Whitehead B. Whittington D. Whittington Winkelhock

v t e Winners of the 24 Hours of Daytona
run as the Daytona 3 Hour Continental (1962–63) Daytona 2000 (1964–65) 6 Hours of Daytona (1972) 24 Hours of Daytona (1966–71 / 1973 / 1975–present)
Five-time	Hurley Haywood Scott Pruett
Four-time	Peter Gregg Pedro Rodríguez Rolf Stommelen Bob Wollek
Three-time	João Barbosa Derek Bell Hélio Castroneves Scott Dixon Christian Fittipaldi Butch Leitzinger Juan Pablo Montoya Brian Redman Memo Rojas Andy Wallace
Two-time	Filipe Albuquerque Max Angelelli Mauro Baldi Tom Blomqvist Terry Borcheller Elliott Forbes-Robinson A. J. Foyt Al Holbert Kamui Kobayashi Jan Lammers Ken Miles Simon Pagenaud John Paul Jr. Lloyd Ruby Scott Sharp Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor Wayne Taylor Didier Theys Al Unser Jr. Renger van der Zande
One-time	Allmendinger Alonso Amon J. Andretti Ma. Andretti Ballot-Léna Bandini Barber Beretta Bergmeister Bernhard Boesel Bouchut Bourdais Boutsen Braun Briscoe Brown Brundle Buckler Cameron Campbell Collard Dalziel Derani Dismore D. Donohue M. Donohue Dupuy Durán Duxbury Dyson Elford Fellows Field Fitzpatrick Franchitti Fréon García Garretson Gentilozzi Gordon Graves Gurney Hand Hasemi Helmick Henn Herrmann Hezemans Hill Hoshino Ickx Jarvis Jelinski Joest D. Jones P. J. Jones Kanaan Kimball Kinnunen Kneifel Krages Larson Lässig Lavaggi Law Lienhard Luyendyk Martin McMurray Mears Merl Millen Moran Moretti Nasr Neerpasch Negri Newgarden Nielsen O'Connell Oliver Ongais Pace Papis C. Parsons Paul Sr. Pescarolo Pew Pilgrim B. Rahal G. Rahal Rice Robinson Rockenfeller Rossi Schneider Schrom Siffert Suzuki Unser Sr. Van der Merwe Van Overbeek Weaver Wendlinger Werner Wheldon Wilson

v t e Winners of the 12 Hours of Sebring
Six-time	Tom Kristensen
Five-time	Rinaldo Capello
Four-time	Frank Biela Pipo Derani Allan McNish
Three-time	Hans-Joachim Stuck Mario Andretti Marco Werner
Two-time	Bob Akin Sébastien Bourdais Geoff Brabham Derek Daly Loïc Duval Andy Evans Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio II Olivier Gendebien Hurley Haywood Hans Herrmann Phil Hill Al Holbert Jacky Ickx Stefan Johansson Nicolas Lapierre JJ Lehto Alex Lynn Emanuele Pirro Brian Redman Jordan Taylor Eric van de Poele Johannes van Overbeek Fermín Vélez Andy Wallace Phil Walters
One-time	Aïello Aitken Alboreto Baker Baldi Bamber Barbosa Barbour Behra Bernhard Bianchi Bomarito Bonnier Gary Brabham Brown Castellotti Collard Collins Curran Daigh Dalmas Davidson de Narváez Delétraz Dumas Dyer Earl Elford Fässler Fitch Fittipaldi Fitzpatrick Foyt Franchitti Frisselle Garretson Gartner Gené Giunti Gray Gregg Gurney Hall Hawthorn Helmick Herbert Herta Heyer Hunter-Reay Jani Jarvis Kaffer Keyser Kulok Larrousse Leven Lloyd Ludwig Luyendyk Maglioli Mass McFarlin McLaren Mendez Miles Millen Moffat Moretti Morton Moss Mullen Müller Nasr Nierop O'Connell Oliver Pace Panis Parkes Paul Jr. Paul Sr. Pescatori Peter Pruett Rahal Robinson Rojas Ruby Scarfiotti H. Sharp S. Sharp Siffert Sims Surtees R. Taylor W. Taylor Theys Tincknell Tréluyer Vaccarella Vautier Wollek Woods Wurz

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