Scuderia Centro Sud


Scuderia Centro Sud was a privateer racing team founded in Modena by Guglielmo "Mimmo" Dei and active in Formula One and sports car racing between 1956 and 1965.
Dei had been an amateur driver in the 1930s. In the early 1950s he opened a Maserati dealership in Rome. Keen on maintaining a relationship with motorsport, in 1956 he founded his own team. The name "Centro Sud" refers to the parts of Italy where his adoptive and native cities are..
Over the course of nine seasons, Scuderia Centro Sud entered a total of 49 World Championship rounds, with cars such as the Maserati 250F, various Maserati-powered Coopers and, in the 1960s, a BRM P57. After a very promising start, Centro Sud went on to earn a further total of 24 points, mostly with Masten Gregory and Tony Maggs, but never won a race, with Gregory's third place at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix as the team's best result.
Centro Sud was the only Italian racing team who took part in the Tasman races in Australia and New Zealand during the winter of 1961-1962.
One of their most notable feats was to be the first team in the history of Formula One to run a female driver, when Maria Teresa de Filippis competed in the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix as a Centro Sud team driver. Future 24 Hours of Le Mans and 24 Hours of Daytona winner Lorenzo Bandini made his Formula One debut with the team at the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

YearChassisEngineTyresDriver1234567891011
1956Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6ARGMON500BELFRAGBRGERITA
1956Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Luigi Villoresi5
1956Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Harry SchellRet
1956Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Toulo de Graffenried7
1956Ferrari 500Ferrari Straight-4 Giorgio ScarlattiRet
1957Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6ARGMON500FRAGBRGERPESITA
1957Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Harry Schell4
1957Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Joakim Bonnier7RetRet
1957Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Masten Gregory3844
1957Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 André SimonDNQ
1957Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Hans HerrmannRet
1957Ferrari 500Ferrari Straight-4 Alejandro de Tomaso9
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6ARGMONNED500BELFRAGBRGERPORITAMOR
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Joakim BonnierDNARet
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Gerino GeriniDNQ9RetRet12
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Maurice Trintignant7
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Masten GregoryRet
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Wolfgang SeidelRetRet
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Carroll ShelbyRet9Ret*
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Troy Ruttman10DNS
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Hans HerrmannRet
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Cliff AllisonRet
1958Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Maria Teresa de FilippisRet
1959Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4MON500NEDFRAGBRGERPORITAUSA
1959Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Ian BurgessRetRet614
1959Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Colin DavisRet11
1959Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Hans HerrmannRet
1959Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Mário de Araújo Cabral10
1959Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Asdrúbal Fontes BayardoDNQ
1959Maserati 250FMaserati Straight-6 Fritz d'Orey10Ret
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4ARGMON500NEDBELFRAGBRPORITAUSA
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Roberto Bonomi11
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Carlos Menditeguy4
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Masten GregoryDNQDNS914Ret
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Ian BurgessDNQ10RetRet
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Maurice TrintignantRetRetRet15
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Mário de Araújo CabralRet
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Alfonso ThieleRet
1960Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Wolfgang von Trips9
1961Cooper T53Maserati Straight-4MONNEDBELFRAGBRGERITAUSA
1961Cooper T53Maserati Straight-4 Lorenzo BandiniRet12Ret8
1961Cooper T51Maserati Straight-4 Massimo NatiliRetDNS
1963BRM P57BRM V8MONBELNEDFRAGBRGERITAUSAMEXRSA
1963BRM P57BRM V8 Lorenzo Bandini105Ret
1963BRM P57BRM V8 Maurice Trintignant9
1963BRM P57BRM V8 Moisés Solana11
1963Cooper T60Climax V8 Mário de Araújo CabralRetDNQ
1963Cooper T53Maserati Straight-4 Ernesto BrambillaDNQ
1964BRM P57BRM V8MONNEDBELFRAGBRGERAUTITAUSAMEX
1964BRM P57BRM V8 Tony MaggsDNSDNSRet64
1964BRM P57BRM V8 Giancarlo BaghettiDNA10812Ret78
1965BRM P57BRM V8RSAMONBELFRAGBRNEDGERITAUSAMEX
1965BRM P57BRM V8 Lucien Bianchi12
1965BRM P57BRM V8 Masten GregoryRet128Ret
1965BRM P57BRM V8 Roberto BussinelloDNQ13
1965BRM P57BRM V8 Giorgio BassiRet

* After retiring his Scuderia Centro Sud-entered car, Shelby subsequently took over Masten Gregory's car, entered by Temple Buell, finishing fourth.