Motorsport Mourns Loss of Pininfarina
Ferrari is in mourning following the death of Andrea Pininfarina, the chairman of the chassis company which designed some of the best-known cars branding The Scuderia’s name.
The 51-year-old was killed instantly when involved in a road collision on his Vespa scooter, on which he collided with a Ford Focus.
The driver of the car - Giuliano Salmi, 78 – was said to be in deep shock after the accident, which took place early on Wednesday in Turin. Pininfarina is survived by his wife Cristina and their three children Benedetta, Sergio and Luca.
He had recently left his role as deputy to Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo at the industrial employers’ association Confindustria and the Scuderia jead paid tribute to his lost colleague following the tragedy.
“With Andrea Pininfarina I have lost a great friend and outstanding business partner,” di Montezemolo was quoted as saying in The Daily Mail.
‘Together we shared years of work and successes with the Ferrari cars he designed.
“He was a man of great humanity and in this moment of deep sorrow my heart goes out to his parents, his wife, children, brothers and all his collaborators at Pininfarina.”
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most iconic pininfarina design? hmmmm…most of his Ferrari’s
How ironic, that someone associated with the “creme de la creme” of automotive design should find his exit from this world on something as ubiquitous as a Vespa scooter…