The racing luminary Adriano Cimarosti
06/09/2016
Adriano Cimarosti, born in 1937 in Friuli in northern Italy, has lived in Switzerland since 1941 and was the sports editor of Automobil Revue and in Bern for 40 years. His knowledge is still phenomenal today and can be called up immediately down to the smallest detail. Whether it was Lorenzo Bandini's accident in Monaco or Clay Regazzoni's first victory the day after Jochen Rindt's fatal accident, he remembers everything as if it had only happened yesterday. His extremely broad and in-depth knowledge brought him to Automobil Revue via the TV quiz show "eifach, dopplet oder nüt" (in good German: simple, double or nothing).
He became interested in motor racing in 1947 when he watched the Bern Grand Prix with his father, the Italian ambassador's chauffeur at the time, in the VIP box (a small separate room in the front row directly behind the fence). This day was of great importance to him and shaped his life.
The picture of him putting the spurs to a Cisitalia shows that he was not only a brilliant writer, but could also drive a car. For the 1979 AR catalog, he drove four monoposti in Lignières: a Bugatti 35 from 1925, the Cisitalia D46 from 1946, a Cooper-Climax Type 51 from 1959 and a Chevron B43 Formula 3 from 1978.
45 years have passed in the meantime, but "Cima", as he is always called, could probably still name the exact thickness of the steering wheel rim of any car to the millimeter.
If you would like to read the story, you can find it in the AR catalog from 1979 or , of course, on Zwischengas!
