Serving The Ferrari Marque Since 1975
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Italia Autosport run one of the country's most successful independent Ferrari racing teams, securing their seventh British Championship title in 2007. John started building and test driving Ferrari racing cars in the early 1980's with his cars being very successful winning various titles through the years.
Then, back in 1995, John was given the chance to race a Ferrari 328GTB in production class. Taking the opportunity, John took his first race win in only his second competitive race, at Spa in Belgium. He went on to win the Ferrari Owners Club Maranello Championship in his first season, not only in his class, but also outright.
In 1996 John and the team secured a car to run in the modified class, a Ferrari F40. Again, they won the class and the championship outright, creating two records in the process: This was the first time anyone had won the championship outright in two consecutive seasons. In winning the championship they amassed 142 points out of a possible 144, the highest ever-recorded score in one season.
1998 saw John contesting an ex Benetton F355 Challenge Car in the British Series. A major accident at Donington very nearly put an end to Italia Autosport's run of success and indeed John himself. The true meaning of "Italia Autosport Team" was exercised in rebuilding a totally wrecked car ready for the next round of the Championship, not only for John, Italia and the Team, but also for the Sponsors and everyone associated with the Team. Sure enough, the car was parked on the second row of the grid at Silverstone after qualifying. Typical of the spirit and character of all at Italia Autosport.
The car finished the Championship as the fastest, most successful F355 Challenge of the season.
For the next four years, Italia raced the Ferrari F40 of businessman and customer Richard Pursey, and in 1999 the team again won the Maranello championship outright followed by the Intermarque class title in 2000 and the Intermarque overall championship in 2001. The Italia Autosport Championship racing team is made up of a number of individuals who have a passion for both Ferrari and motor sport. There is a competitive determination, that in the depths of adversity, enables them to pull together to achieve a single goal, to get out there and win.
Success in 2005 winning another Class Championship driving a Ferrari F328 GTB in the classic series and, having the time of our lives, racing an ex BTC Alfa 155 V6 in AROC Championship winning the class 'C' Championship in 2007.
Until we successfully put together a sponsor/partnership deal to add another championship to our amazing history, John is providing tuition to our clients at various track day events.
Thank you for allowing us to recall these fabulous times and John tells us he can remember every one of them!
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