Mauro Baldi

Mauro Baldi

Born	31 January 1954 (1954-01-31) (age 57)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1982 - 1985
Teams	Arrows, Alfa Romeo, Spirit
Races	41 (36 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	5
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1982 South African Grand Prix
Last race	1985 San Marino Grand Prix

Mauro Baldi (born January 31, 1954 in Reggio Emilia) is an Italian former Formula One driver who raced for the Arrows, Alfa Romeo and Spirit teams.

He started his career in rallying in 1972 and turned to circuit racing in 1975 with the Italian Renault 5 Cup. By 1980 he had become a top Formula 3 driver, winning the Monaco F3 Grand Prix and the 1981 European Formula 3 Championship with eight victories. In 1982 he signed to drive for Arrows before moving to Alfa Romeo in 1983, scoring a fifth place in Zandvoort. When Benetton became Alfa Romeo's team sponsor in 1984, Baldi lost his drive, and joined the underfunded Spirit team until 1985.

After retiring from Formula One he went to enjoy a successful career in sports car racing, driving for the works Martini-Lancia team in 1984 and 1985. In 1986, he switched to a Porsche 956 from Richard Lloyd Racing's outfit, returning to a works drive in 1988 with the Sauber-Mercedes team, with whom Baldi won the 1990 FIA World Sports Prototype Championship for Drivers, sharing the car with Jean-Louis Schlesser. In 1991 and 1992 he was a driver for Peugeot. He had a brief return to F1, doing most of the test driving for the Modena Lambo project.

Returning to sports cars, he won the Le Mans 24 Hours race in 1994, sharing the "road-going" Dauer 962 Le Mans (a modified Porsche 962) with Yannick Dalmas and Hurley Haywood. He also won the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring, both in 1998 with Arie Luyendyk and Didier Theys.

Complete Formula One results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1982	Arrows Racing Team	Arrows A4	Cosworth V8	RSA DNQ	BRA 10	USW DNQ	SMR	BEL NC	MON DNQ	DET Ret	CAN 8	NED 6	GBR 9	FRA Ret	GER Ret	AUT 6	SUI DNQ		CPL 11	25th	2
		Arrows A5																ITA 12
1983	Marlboro Team Alfa Romeo	Alfa Romeo 183T	Alfa Romeo V8	BRA Ret	USW Ret	FRA Ret	SMR 10	MON 6	BEL Ret	DET 12	CAN 10	GBR 7	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED 5	ITA Ret	EUR Ret	RSA Ret		16th	3
1984	Spirit Racing	Spirit 101	Hart Straight-4	BRA Ret	RSA 8	BEL Ret	SMR 8	FRA Ret	MON DNQ	CAN	DET	DAL	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	EUR 8	POR 15	NC	0
1985	Spirit Enterprises Ltd.	Spirit 101D	Hart Straight-4	BRA Ret	POR Ret	SMR Ret	MON	CAN	DET	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	BEL	EUR	RSA	AUS	NC	0

Sources

• Profile at www.grandprix.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Yves Frémont	Coupe d'Europe Renault 5 Alpine Champion 1977	Succeeded by Wolfgang Schütz
Preceded by Alain Prost	Monaco Formula Three Race Winner 1980	Succeeded by Alain Ferté
Preceded by Michele Alboreto	European Formula Three Champion 1981	Succeeded by Oscar Larrauri
Preceded by Jean-Louis Schlesser(1989)	World Sportscar Champion 1990, with Jean-Louis Schlesser	Succeeded by Teo Fabi
Preceded by Geoff Brabham Christophe Bouchut Eric Hélary	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1994 with: Yannick Dalmas Hurley Haywood	Succeeded by Yannick Dalmas J.J. Lehto Masanori Sekiya

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Name	Baldi, Mauro
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Date of birth	January 31, 1954
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