Raffaele Alberti
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| Complete name: Raffaele Alberti |
| Birth date: 14.Sep.1907 |
| Birth Place: unknown, unknown |
| Death date: 06.May.1951 |
| Death Place: Ferrara, Italy |
| Nationality: Italy |
| Gender: male |
| Age at death: 43 |
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| Event date: 06.May.1951 |
| Series: Campionato Italiano di Velocità - classe 125 cm3 [Italian Motorcycle Speed Championship - 125 cm3 class] |
| Race: Circuito di Ferrara |
| Event type: race |
| Country: Italy |
| Venue: Ferrara |
| Variant: unknown |
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| Role: rider |
| Vehicle type: motorcycle |
| Vehicle sub-type: sports bike - from 51 cm3 up to 125 cm3 |
| Vehicle brand/model: FB Mondial 125 |
| Vehicle number: ?? |
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Notes:
Raffaele Alberti and Guido Leoni, both riding 125 cm3 FB Mondial motorcycles, lost their lives in an accident that involved several riders during the Circuito di Ferrara held in a street course at Ferrara on 06 May 1951.
Rider Antonio Ronchei hit the straw bales beside the track in a fast left bend, fell down and remained in the middle of the road, causing a multiple pile-up. Other riders fell down, Carlo Ubbiali managed to avoid the machines that caught fire and Primo Zanzani escaped unhurt from the fire, while Raffaele Alberti and Guido Leoni crashing into the wreckage were both killed upon impact.
The expert racer Raffaele Alberti and his team mate Guido Leoni raced for team FB Mondial owned by Count Giuseppe Boselli. They were well known riders at the time in Italy and Europe, Leoni had already won his first World Motorcycle Championship race, the 125 cm3 class in the 1951 Spanish Grand Prix held at the Montjuïc Park, just one month before his fatal crash. Guido Leoni had also won the Circuito delle Terme di Caracalla in 1948 and the gruelling Milano-Taranto road race in 1950.
They are not to be mistaken with Luigi Alberti and Gianni Leoni, that passed away that same year in accidents respectively in Monza and at the Ulster Tourist Trophy at Clady. They were not related.
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Sources:
- Book "I Giorni del Coraggio - Storia dei Motomondiali 1949-1969" by Ezio Pirazzini, Edizioni Calderini, Bologna 1975, page 67.
- Book "Il Motogiro - La Sfida Temeraria" by Arturo Rizzoli, images by Walter Breveglieri, Minerva Edizioni, Loreto (AN) 2007.
- Website Associazione Mantovana Auto e Moto Storiche Tazio Nuvolari, page http://www.amams.org/leoni/guido.htm .
- Website Racing Memory by Vincent Glon, page http://racingmemo.free.fr/MOTO-GP-1951.htm .
- Website Associazione MotoClub Cento, page http://www.motoclubcento.it/Cartoline.html .
- E-mail by Andy Marlow, dated 22 December 2004.
- E-mail by Hans-Hugo Boecker, dated 23 December 2004, citing book "The Monza Yearbook 1963", citing also book "The Monza Yearbook 1964".
- E-mail by Andy Marlow, dated 01 January 2005.
- E-mail by Hélio Rodrigues dated 09 January 2008.
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