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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC - technical evolution for Giancarlo Fisichella

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Created on March 5, 2019

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Daniel Reinhard

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Alfa-Romeo 155 V6 ITC (1996) - Tourenwagen Classics Lausitz im Jahr 2018

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Alfa-Romeo 155 V6 ITC (1996) - Tourenwagen Classics Hockenheim Historic im Jahr 2018

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Alfa-Romeo 155 V6 ITC (1996) - Tourenwagen Classics Hockenheimring im Jahr 2018

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - viel Technik im Cockpit

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - schwieriger Einstieg

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - es sind noch Elemente des Seriencockpits vorhanden

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - viele Knöpfe auf dem Lenkrad

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Wippenschaltung

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - da weiss man als Pilot besser, was man tut

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - eng nebeneinanderstehende Pedale

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Steuerungstechnik auf dem Beifahrersitz

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - leichtgewichtiger Fahrersitz

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Überrollkäfig und ausgeräumtes Interieur

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - längs und weit hinten eingebaut - der V6-Motor

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - fein säuberlich beschriftet

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Renntechnik

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Blick auf die eine Seite des V6

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - V6-Motor mit 90-Prozent-Winkel zwischen den Zylinderreihen

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Blick auf den Motor

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - technisches Detail

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - sofort als Alfa Romeo erkennbar

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - genannt Scudetto - herzförmiger Alfa-Romeo-Kühlerausschnitt

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - aerodynamische Hilfsmittel

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - austarierte Aerodynamik

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Luft für die Bremsen

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - aerodynamisch optimierte Türen

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - überall wird die Luft geführt

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Einarm-Scheibenwischer

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - eindeutig beschriftet

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Heckspoiler

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - dicke Auspuffenden

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - gelungener Start

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - in Führung

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - im Duett

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - auf dem Hockenheimring

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - feuerspeiend

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Regeneinsatz

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Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC (1996) - Pressekonferenz

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Gian-Carlo Fisichella im Jahr 2005, als er für Renault fuhr

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Summary

Despite winning the title in 1993, the Alfa Romeo 155 soon proved to be less competitive in the years that followed, as its opponents had upgraded their cars. In a secret operation, a close-knit Alfa team built a completely redesigned touring car that beat its opponents several times in 1996. This report tells the story of the last evolution of the Alfa Romeo 155 Ti V6 ITC and shows Fisichella's car in historical and current pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

Complete overhaul
Proximity to series production?
Quarrels
A driver with gasoline in his blood
Fisichella's car
Life goes on
The bitter end

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Alfa Romeo engaged four drivers for the 1996 German Touring Car Championship, which has since been elevated to "International Touring Car Championship" (ITC) status: Christian Danner, Nicola Larini, Alessandro Nannini and Giancarlo Fisichella. The new JAS team also included Stefano Modena, Gabriele Tarquini, Michael Bartels and, as a newcomer, the Dane Jason Watt. Although the team had celebrated a brilliant debut in the first year of participation in 1993 with the title win in the manufacturers' and drivers' championships for Nicola Larini, the trophies subsequently went to Mercedes. Although Alfa urgently needed motorsport success for marketing reasons, the Fiat management remained sceptical about the expensive commitment, especially as rumours persisted that the organizers of the DTM/ITC favoured the German manufacturers. Against this resistance, former Ferrari engineer Pier Guido Castelli, appointed head of motorsport at Fiat, racing manager Giorgio Pianta, engine engineer D'Agostino and overall project manager Sergio Limone planned a fundamental evolution of the Alfa 155 Ti V6 for 1996, project code "Abarth SE065".

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