Massimo Natili

One of a number of promising Italian Formula Junior drivers tested by Scuderia Centro Sud, Massimo was given a handful of outings in 1961, none of which brought any success.

In 1962 he was lucky to survive a crash in a Monza FJ race, when an anonymous spectator pulled him from his blazing car with burns to face and legs. He reappeared for Centro Sud in 1963, and took a fourth place in the 1964 Rome GP with a Brabham-Giannini. He continued to race competitively in Italian F3 with a Brabham and was the 1965 1-litre national sports car champion with a Lotus 23.