(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000

Родился: 26.06.1933 Нотареско, Терамо Умер: 29.07.2002 Кьети, Абруццо Сезонов в Ф1: 1 Лет в Ф1: 1 Гран При: 1 Старты: 1 Победы: - подряд: Подиумы: - подряд: Поул-позиции: - подряд: Первый ряд: - подряд: Быстрые круги: - подряд: Лучший финиш: 12 Лучший старт: 29 Дубли: Хет-трики: Лидирование старт/финиш: Большие шлемы: Круги: 38 - лидирования: Километры: 380 - лидирования: Очки: - за один сезон: - подряд:

Ф1: 1961

Год	Команда	Шасси
1961	Pescara Racing Club	Cooper T51

After a promising start in small-capacity Stanguellini sports cars in the mid-fifties, Pirocchi was to become one of the stars of the Italian Formula Junior series, then in its infancy. In 1959 he raced a Taraschi and began a friendly rivalry with Bandini, the pair enjoying a spectacular dice at Syracuse in particular. For the following year, Renato switched to a Stanguellini chassis in common with most of his competitors and ended a marvellous season as Italian champion, although probably his most important win was in the prestigious Havana GP in Cuba.

Pirocchi's brief flirtation with Formula 1 machinery in 1961 was to be less successful. Driving a rather tired Cooper entered by the Pescara Racing Club, and on one occasion a Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper (as number two to his old sparring partner Bandini), he was, at best, a backmarker.

(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000