Gianni Lancia

Gianni Lancia to the right of engineer Vittorio Jano.

Gianni Lancia (16 November 1924 – 30 June 2014) was an Italian former automobile engineer, industrialist and racing enthusiast, known for running the Lancia carmaker in Torino (1949–55). Born in Fobello (near Biella), he was the son of Vincenzo Lancia and Adele Miglietti, and brother of Anna Maria and Eleonora.

After his father's death (1937), the young Gianni Lancia took over, since 1945 assisted by technical director Vittorio Jano. Lancia's racing enthusiasm brought forward several expensive racing prototypes, which led the company to near-bankruptcy.^[1] This, and the death of Lancia driver Alberto Ascari (May, 1955), caused him and his mother to sell off their shares in the Lancia company to Carlo Pesenti of Italcementi (June 1956). Since then, Gianni Lancia moved to South America a while, returned to France and Italy, and has since barred all interest in motorsports.^[2]

He had two sons, Mariele and Vincenzo from his first marriage. He married as his second wife the French film-actress Jacqueline Sassard and they had a son Lorenzo.

He died on 30 June 2014 in Turin.^[3]

References

↑ Valerio Moretti, La scommessa di Gianni Lancia (1986), who claims that Gianni Lancia was central, in an organization that at that time (1951-53) housed famous engineers and drivers such as Alberto Ascari, Felice Bonetto, Juan Fangio, Eugenio Castellotti, Luigi Villoresi, Luigi Fagioli and Piero Taruffi.
↑ Alberto Ascari life story post by Karl Ludvigsen
↑ Zanello, Andrea (4 July 2014). "Fobello dà l'addio al figlio del fondatore della Lancia". La Stampa (in Italian). Retrieved 6 July 2014.

Lancia

Passenger cars

Current models	Ypsilon II Voyager

1980–2014	Trevi Prisma Thema I Y10 Dedra Delta II Kappa Zeta Lybra Thesis Phedra Ypsilon I Musa Delta III Thema II Flavia

1945–1980	Aurelia Appia Flaminia Flavia Fulvia 2000 Beta Stratos HF Montecarlo Gamma Delta I

1918–1945	Kappa Dikappa Trikappa Lambda Dilambda Artena Astura Augusta Aprilia Ardea

1907–1918	12 HP Alfa 18 HP Dialfa 15/20 HP Beta 20 HP Gamma 20/30 HP Delta 20/30 HP Epsilon 30/50 HP Eta 25-35 HP Theta

Concept cars	Stratos HF Zero Stratos HF Megagamma Sibilo Medusa ECV Dialogos

Buses

Trucks

Vans

Military vehicles

Motorsport

Racing cars	D24 D50 LC1 LC2 Stratos HF Rally 037 Delta S4 Delta Group A

Drivers	Andrea Aghini Markku Alén Alberto Ascari Didier Auriol Miki Biasion Louis Chiron Juha Kankkunen Sandro Munari Walter Röhrl Luigi Villoresi

People

Technologies

Other

Vincenzo Lancia
Fiat
Category

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.