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TATUUS STORY: Thirty years of success PY 012: The Prototype of the future LUCA GHIOTTO: “I’m studying to become a champion” MAGAZINE n.1 - 2013 i THE HISTORY “That bet with Renault” 2 3 hirty years of racing, adventures and was Alberto Colombo, the owner of the historic Martini from France. The first year we showed up success. From Formula Monza to Sanremo Racing team. He noticed my with 3/4 cars, making very little headway: the Formula Renault 2000, from enthusiasm, that I was good in looking for teams weren’t interested in buying our models. Formula Ford to the new challenges sponsors, and offered me a job as team manager. However we learned to appreciate just how much in the world of prototypes. Tatuus It was a dream come true. When Alberto retired effort Renault Sport was putting in to promote Racing was founded by Artico from racing, I created a company providing teams the sport. They gave us a real break because, after TSandonà and Gianfranco De Bellis in 1980 and has with a complete range of services such as printed seeing our project, they bought the first car. built an international reputation in motorsports postcards, photographs, stickers and hospitality, Rather than cash, they paid us with 3/4 kits which based on passion, efficiency and the ability to together with another youngster from Monza were worth about 60 million Lire at the time». provide top‐quality products at competitive who followed Formula Monza as a photographer, This was just what we needed but once again it prices, together italian, or more specifically, and who is unfortunately no longer with us. was business skills – courage, professionalism, and Lombardian business flair. During my stay at Sanremo Racing I realized that love for innovation – together with our passion «Tatuus was born in the 1980s as a consequence was the kind of service teams could benefit from. for racing, that were instrumental in converting of my partner Artico Sandonà’s passion for racing A few years later we entered into a partnership this opportunity into success. «That’s how it all and Formula Monza in particular», explains with Sandonà, who was looking for someone to started», continues De Bellis. «We had a slice of Gianfranco De Bellis from his office in contribute to the development of his team, and good luck, which is always important, but also the Concorezzo, in the province of Monza. «His not long after I found myself in sole possession of courage to do something different from the other father had a carprentry firm, but it was there that 50 per cent of the company». manufacturers. That car was a great success. The he built his first racing cars. As a driver I was also The turning point came at the beginning of the first year we achieved 6 pole positions in 10 starts involved in Formula Monza; when I retired from 1990s, thanks to an opportunity provided by in the European championship. The car was racing it was our shared passion that brought us Renault. plagued by electrical problems but we won all 4 together». «At the end of 1994, Renault put forward a races that we managed to finish». For those who don’t know, the name Tatuus proposal for a new championship based on cars And in 1996 we received 35 orders. «At that time comes from “Tato”, which was how Artico with a tubular chassis, a new engine and gear‐box. there was the European championship, the Sandonà’s family called him when he was little. Since the competition was open to all‐comers, I British, German and Spanish one: and we won And this is reflected in the love and care that has contacted them. It was immediately apparent that them all. The following 5 years we won 4 been lavished on Tatuus Racing over the years. it represented a golden opportunity for the European, 4 British, 4 German, 2 Spanish and one «I attended the scuola federale di pilotaggio European market. We would be competing French championship. In ‘98‐’99, 70 per cent of (federal driving school) in 1982 and now, many against some of the top manufacturers, so it was the teams were using our cars. We built over 100 years later, we’re responsible for their cars», the perfect chance to see if we were up to the cars, and we were always present in order to recounts De Bellis. «I had to take the train to get challenge». provide teams with spare parts during the race to the course because I hadn’t a car at the time, I «At that time Dallara was just starting to take the meetings. We offered a different type of service, even used to cycle to the races at Monza: but fight to the British teams ‐ continues De Bellis – organising tests during the winter and sharing the those were different times. One of the instructors the biggest names were Van Diemen, Swift and costs. We decided to share our information with Domenico Porfiri (Renault Italia) and Gianfranco De Bellis Gianfranco De Bellis and Artico “Tato” Sandonà 2 Corrado Casiraghi “Complete flexibility and collaboration with the teams, that’s the Tatuus style” Corrado Casiraghi, an aeronautical engineer The upshot is, besides defining the racing set‐ than on purely technical and performance from Milan Polytechnic, is one of the young up and other purely technical activities that based approach. And in this country we also stalwarts of Tatuus. He is responsible for vary from team to team, that we spend much boast designers who are capable of optimising design, especially the aspects involving time in providing the teams with instructions, overall performance, not only from a aerodynamics, and technical support for the including some quite basic concepts. We try to management point of view but also in terms of teams. «I turned up at Tatuus with my provide the best possible support in order to technical specifications». curriculum in hand – he explains – but I picked help the teams grow and get the best out of the up my passion for motor sports by osmosis, cars». An example? since I was born and grew up just outside the «In a way it all started with the carbon fibre circuit in Monza». Could you give us more information about your chassis at Tatuus, even though I wasn’t working last two projects? here then. In british vision it probably seemed How is the work organised at Tatuus? «The Abarth is an interesting project since its impossible to build a car with a carbon fibre «We’re a small company, and this means that main objective is keeping costs and chassis on that budget, because their concept of people’s roles are not rigidly defined, which is construction times to a minimum. We tried to chassis is the only one they know: the Formula positive. The consequence of this is that the do as much as possible right at the start of the 1. Naturally it’s impossible to achieve Formula 1 work ranges from designing components to design stage, integrating studies that had been performance due to the type of materials and providing teams with technical support during carried out for other cars. We’ve had a bit more fittings that have been used: a lot of things have testing. I’m involved in the design process up to time on the Sport project. We’re still coming to been sacrificed in order to keep costs to a a certain point, then, once the work starts in grips with the concept of the car and working to minimum. It’s difficult to imagine anyone who’s the wind tunnel, my job takes on a more improve it as we go forward with the grown up in Anglo‐Saxon engineering culture experimental aspect. development stage. We learnt a lot because it being willing to take such risks». The greater part of my involvement with the involves many new concepts – on‐board teams centres on providing instructions and systems, lights, fuel systems for duration races – Which project are you most enthusiastic about? information mainly concerning the that we had never taken into account before». «I’m very excited about Sport cars, which we are management of the car and the acquired data. still getting to know, and that are much closer For example, the main difference between our What makes the Italian approach to to our own sector than to Formula 1. Formula 1 most recent projects, Formula Abarth and the engineering different from the british one? is a completely different world. The P2 projects Prototype, and our more “traditional” models, «Italian approach is more versatile and elastic still represent a step beyond anything we have such as the Renault 2000, is that the quantity of than british approach. In UK, once a system has been involved with in the past, but the information acquired is much greater, due to been established it’s difficult to imagine it being underlying philosophy is not entirely the increased complexity of data gathering turned upside down. In Italy we concentrate incompatible. I see it as our next goal, very systems. more on trackside management and car costs demanding, but also extremely interesting». 3 teams and to offer our unexpected difficulties. In the end it was necessary to postpone the first set‐ups. It was an entirely «The bank had guaranteed race of the 2000 European championship because new approach that helped us a line of credit but we had too many orders and we just couldn’t a number of small teams when the contract keep up.

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