Giorgio Stirano

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Full Name	Giorgio Stirano
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Feb 23, 1950(1950-02-23)
Age	74
Birthplace	Turin
Country	Italy
Birth City	Piedmont
Horoscope	Aquarius

Giorgio Stirano Biography

Giorgio Stirano is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on February 23, 1950 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. Giorgio Stirano (born 23 February 1950 in Turin) is an Italian racing car engineer who was employed by Forti along with Osella for the race of Formula One.

Then, Stirano went on to spend his time in activities in the realm of motor racing . He and three of his partners, he created Alba Engineering and started building cars to race in Formula 3, test driven by Enzo Coloni. In 1982, Alba developed a car to compete in the C Group championship. C Group championship for the Carma of Martino Finotto and Carlo Facetti . The car, equipped with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine, competed in the FIA World Championship and won the FIA Cup for C Junior cars in 1983 and 1984. The “custom” cars were also exported to the United States where they participated in the IMSA Championship with drivers such as Gianpiero Moretti, Jim Trueman and others driving the car.

After the accident that cost Ayrton Senna his life during a race in 1994, Stirano was appointed by Williams as expert surveyor on the side of the Williams team, which was being accused of causing the accident due to them having created an undersized steering column. The enquiry, which started in 1997, had Stirano, Diego Milen, Roberto Vitali and Giovanni Saccenti (the surveyors team for Williams) up against Tommaso Carletti and Mauro Forghieri. On officially returning to Formula 1 in 1995, Stirano, during his short adventure in this affluent championship, was first appointed as Sports Director and then as Team Manager of Forti Corse : the team lined up drivers such as Pedro Paulo Diniz and Roberto Moreno. It was here that he developed the FG01 vehicle, originally designed by Sergio Rinland, which gained seventh place at the Australian GP driven by Diniz. This was Stirano’s last race in a Formula 1 pit box. That following winter together with the help of Chris Radage, Stirano designed the Forti FG 03, a much more modern and lighter vehicle. Unfortunately, they never got around to building it due to the economic crisis which led to Forti eventually going bankrupt in 1996. In 1999 he worked together with the members of Euroteam in the STW championship with Stefano Modena’s Alfa Romeo 156. From 2002 to 2005 Stirano was the consultant of the race team Opel Euroteam (OPC Opel DTM team), managing the races of the Opel Astra of Jeroen Bleekemolen and Laurent Aiello. In the same period he was also providing technical assistance with the creation of Gloria, a company founded by Enrico Glorioso and specializing in the building of racing cars for Junior Championships. In 2006 Stirano founded the company, Albatech Monaco, an atelier of design and engineering providing consultancy in the automotive and nautical fields Stirano was for a long time a member of ACI CSAI, the Italian racing cars Federation, in the Technical Subcommittee and, as Italian Deputy Member, in the FIA Technical Commission, President of the Motorsport Safety Council until 2006, and Advisor SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) for Italy from 1993 to 2000. He is currently involved as commentator and news analyst for television programs regarding the world of racing. Since 2001 he has been co-author for the Formula 1 yearbook published by Vallardi Editore. In 2003, together with Michael Ling, he edited the yearbook Formula 1 Championship 2003 Yearbook: The Complete Record of the Grand Prix Season. In 2006 together with Paolo D’Alessio and Mirco Lazzari, he published Formula 1 – La cronaca e le foto più belle del campionato, editing the technical part of the book. In 2007 Stirano and Paolo D’Alessio published the book “Red Passion” which speaks about the 60-year history of Ferrari races and in 2008 he and Paolo D’Alessio published the book “Gran Prix” which is about the ‘modern’ Formula 1.

In the 1980 season, Stirano was the first to support the design for the racing car that was the Osella FA1, managed by Nicola Materazzi, and when the team was disbanded in October of 1979, he left the team to join Ferrari, Stirano became the chief engineer. Cheever was the official as the driver in the Osella FA1 which had its debut at the Argentina GP. The Osella FA1 did not get good results, just a 12th-place finish during the San Marino GP and Imola getting 9 drop-outs and four failing qualifications. In order to make up for the start-up problems, a different variant of the vehicle, called the FA1B was developed and produced together with Giorgio Valentini. Stirano and Valentini created the 1981 model called the FA1C which was handed over the car to private driver Beppe Gabbiani as well as Miguel-Angel Guerra. Their lack of experience as drivers led to very disappointing performance during the season. (Guerra did not qualify for nearly all races, and was involved in a serious crash). Despite the change in designers and the demise of Stirano at the beginning of the year, they has not was able to achieve a good result, until it was gone completely in 1990.

Giorgio Stirano Net Worth

Giorgio Stirano is one of the richest Engineer from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Giorgio Stirano 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

While at university Stirano participated in rallies as a driver and also contributed to the motorsports pages that were published in daily newspapers Tuttosport. In January 1976, following finishing his aeronautical engineering course in 1975 from the Politecnico di Torino, he was employed by the Osella Race Team to be their the team’s Sports Director. He then proceeded to assume the responsibility of Team Manager as well as Project Manager. In the early days, Osella competed on Formula 2, a category that they were entered into in the very first race in the 1974 season following an initial run of modest success in Italian racing and hillclimbing.

The young Stirano began his career at Osella He was assigned the task of overseeing the entire projects that were related to sports competitions which included Formula Super Ford, Formula 3, Formula 2 and sport. The winter of 1978 saw Stirano created an upgrade of the Osella FA2 for the 1979 season. This new car was able to allow Eddie Cheever to win races at Silverstone as well as at the Pau Grand Prix and Zandvoort. Cheever’s wins and the car’s performance impressed Enzo Osella that he should invest his money in the team as well as advance into Formula 1.

Stirano returned to the world of Formula 1 in 1984, as the consultant of Alfa Romeo, and in the years to follow he participated in the design and planning of the one-make training racing car CSAI Alfa Boxer. In 1986 he founded PTI Alba Tech, an engineering company specializing in the planning and building of special competitive cars, and by doing so was able to expand the boundaries of the service provided to the mechanics of chassis and suspension of prototypes. Stirano, along with Giugiaro and his Italdesign, collaborated in the designing of the Machimoto, a concept-car which was presented at the Salone dell’automobile di Torino. He also participated in the designing and planning of Giugiaro’s Nazca, Blitz (an electric racing car, designed by Bertone and ZER and holder of the 300 km/h (190 mph) speed record for electric cars), and of Pininfarina’s Ethos (a 1992 prototype for an environmental friendly car). In 1993 he collaborated with Alfa Corse to design the Alfa 155 TS, which took part in the Italian Tourism Championship with the drivers Gabriele Tarquini, Gianni Morbidelli and Tamara Vidali, meanwhile he was also involved with the Alfa Romeo team as Leading Engineer. In 1994 Tarquini won the BTCC with the Alfa 155 TS .

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