Enrico Bertaggia

Enrico Bertaggia

Born	(1964-09-19) 19 September 1964 (age 59) Noale, Italy
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1989, 1992
Teams	Coloni, Andrea Moda
Entries	8 (0 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1989 Belgian Grand Prix
Last entry	1989 Australian Grand Prix

Enrico Agostino Bertaggia ^[1] (born 19 September 1964) is a former racing driver from Italy. He enjoyed success in Formula Three, winning the Italian Formula Three Championship in 1987 and the Monaco Grand Prix F3 support race and the Macau Grand Prix the following year.

Racing career

As a professional race car driver, Bertaggia began his career in 1982 and continued for almost 25 years. He entered many prestigious and difficult Championship Races including Formula 3 where he was the Italian Formula 3 Champion in 1987, and in 1988, when he succeeded in the feat of winning both the Formula 3 race in Monte Carlo and the Macau Grand Prix with Damon Hill coming in second and Jean Alesi in third position. He made his debut in Formula 3000 in 1988. In the 1988 International Formula 3000 Championship he was entered in four races, failed to qualify in the first three and then managed a "career-best" 19th position at Jerez.

In 1989 he obtained a Formula One ride with Coloni, replacing Pierre-Henri Raphanel. He participated in six races towards the end of the season and was in fact the slowest entrant in all six. He was entered for two Grand Prix with Andrea Moda in 1992, but the team was excluded from the first, and withdrew from the second, following which Bertaggia left the team. He made an attempt to return to Andrea Moda with a new sponsorship deal, but owner Andrea Sassetti had already used up his allowed number of driver changes.

In 1990 and 1991 Bertaggia raced Formula 3000 in Japan with the Footwork team. In 1995 he was runner up at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GT2 class with Callaway Corvette.

His career continued and included Super Touring Car Championships, Porsche Carrera Cup and Sportscar Racing.

Coaching

Bertaggia has worked as the Chief Instructor at the Italian Federal School for young and talented race car drivers, which has been exclusively granting national professional racing licenses since 1992. After working at various professional driving schools (BMW, Renault) in 1987 Enrico Bertaggia became the Course Director for the Official Ferrari Driving School and the only instructor worldwide to teach the private glamorous Ferrari Enzo Courses. He was also Chief Instructor at the Alfa Romeo safety driving school and the Maserati Master GT School.

In February 2005 Bertaggia joined the staff at Ferrari GB as Chief Instructor for the exclusive and prestigious Ferrari GB official Club “Fiorano Ferrari”. He was made MotorSports Director at Ferrari GB and has created a 6 car team for the Ferrari European Challenge races as well as continuing to take the responsibility for the "Fiorano Ferrari" track days.

Business ventures

In 2011 Bertaggia moved to the United States to create as part owner Dream Racing, a 5 Star Luxury Driving Experience based at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He is since then the CEO of the company, which initially offered 12 Ferrari F430 GT Race Cars to drive for customers, since then the fleet has grown to over 80 cars which includes both GT race cars and supercars, and hosts more than 60,000 customers per year. In 2016 Dream Racing also launched Dream Racing motor sport.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1988	Forti Corse	Dallara 3087	Cosworth	JER DNQ	VAL DNQ	PAU DNQ	SIL DNQ	MNZ 7	PER 16	BRH DNS	BIR DNQ	BUG DNQ			NC	0
		Lola T88/50											ZOL 11	DIJ Ret
1989	Lola Motorsport	March 88B	Judd	SIL DNQ											NC	0
	Roger Cowman Racing	Lola T89/50	Cosworth		VAL DNQ	PAU DNQ	JER 19	PER	BRH	BIR	SPA	BUG	DIJ
1993	ACE Racing	Reynard 92D	Ford Cosworth	DON	SIL	PAU DNQ	PER 5	HOC DNQ	NÜR 20	SPA Ret	MAG Ret	NOG 12			17th	2

Complete Japanese Formula 3000 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Pts
1990	Footwork Formula	SUZ 14	FSW 11	MIN 3	SUZ Ret	SUG 16	FSW 13	FSW Ret	SUZ Ret	FSW 14	SUZ 7		14th	4
1991	Footwork Formula	SUZ DNQ	AUT 16	FSW 21	MIN 16	SUZ	SUG	FSW	SUZ	FSW	SUZ	FSW	NC	0

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Pts
1989	Coloni SpA	Coloni C3	Ford Cosworth DFR 3.5 V8	BRA	SMR	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL DNPQ	ITA DNPQ	POR DNPQ	ESP DNPQ	JPN DNPQ	AUS DNPQ	NC	0
1992	Andrea Moda Formula	Andrea Moda C4B	Judd GV 3.5 V10	RSA EX																NC	0
		Andrea Moda S921			MEX DNP	BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN	AUS

Complete British Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts
1992	CoBRa Motorsport	Renard 92D	Cosworth	OUL	DON	BRH	THR	BRH	OUL	SNE	BRH 4	SIL 1	DON Ret	7th	12

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1995	Callaway Competition	Frank Jelinski Johnny Unser	Callaway Corvette	LMGT2	273	9th	2nd

Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos.	Pts
1995	Ford Mondeo Team Wolf	Ford Mondeo	ZOL 1	ZOL 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	ÖST 1	ÖST 2	HOC 1	HOC 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	SAL 1 19	SAL 2 Ret	AVU 1 Ret	AVU 2 DNS	NÜR 1 21	NÜR 2 14	33rd	16

Complete Italian Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos.	Pts
1994	Top Run	Alfa Romeo 155	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 DNS	VAL 1 8	VAL 2 Ret	MAG 1 12	MAG 2 8	BIN 1	BIN 2	MIS 1	MIS 2	VAL 1	VAL 2	MUG 1	MUG 2	PER 1	PER 2	VAR 1	VAR 2	MUG 1	MUG 2	22nd	6

References

1. "Pilote des 24 heures du Mans : Enrico Agostino Bertaggia". www.24h-en-piste.com (in French). Retrieved 21 June 2023.

• Profile at grandprix.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Nicola Larini	Italian Formula Three Champion 1987	Succeeded by Emanuele Naspetti
Preceded by Didier Artzet	Monaco Formula Three Race Winner 1988	Succeeded by Antonio Tamburini
Preceded by Martin Donnelly	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1988	Succeeded by David Brabham