- Renzo Zorzi
Former F1 driver
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Name = Renzo Zorzi
Nationality = flagicon|Italy Italian
Years = F1|1975 - F1|1977
Team(s) = Williams, Shadow
Races = 7
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Points = 1
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First race =1975 Italian Grand Prix
First win =
Last win =
Last race =1977 Spanish Grand Prix Renzo Zorzi (born
December 12 ,1946 , nearTurin ) is a formerracing driver fromItaly who participated in 7Formula One Grands Prix between 1975 and 1977.Between odd races for Williams in Formula One, Zorzi raced in
Formula 3 . After his 1977 season with Shadow came to a premature end due to financial problems, he later raced in the Aurora AFX F1 series, driving anArrows .Zorzi was indirectly involved in a horrific accident during the
1977 South African Grand Prix , when he retired his car with an engine failure, which resulted in a small fire. Despite Zorzi dealing with the fire with his on-board extinguisher, two fire marshals ran across the track and one,Jansen Van Vuuren , was struck and killed by the car of Zorzi's team-mateTom Pryce , who was also killed.Zorzi now runs a
Pirelli driving school in southern Italy. [cite news| title =The World Championship drivers - Where are they now?| publisher =oldracingcars.com| url =http://www.oldracingcars.com/bydriver/watn.asp?letter=Z| date =unknown| accessdate =2007-01-11]Complete Formula One World Championship results
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