Zagato Fulvia Sport Competizione

By: Carlo Stella - Bruno Vettore .

The racing history of the Lancia Fulvia Sport Competitzione has never been told as such: modified by Zagato, who undertook the sports preparation of the bodyshell and body itself between the end of 1967 and 1969, just 30 examples of the Competitzione were produced. Careful and rigorous research supported by the useful and unique testimonies by personalities like Cesare Fiorio, Gianni Tonti, Luigi Podda and drivers including Luigi Cabella, Ugo Locatelli, Angelo Rizzo and Ersamo Bologna, led the authors not only to reconstruct the technical and sporting history of each of these cars, but it also enabled them to throw new light on the intricate events in which the three works Fulvia Sports of the Lancia Racing Department were leading actors, including the class wins at the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 hours of Sebring by a Competizione driven by Claudio Maglioli and Lele Pinto.
Recounting this brief but intense page in the history of motor racing also gave the authors the opportunity to tell once more the story of the Lancia Fulvia Sport road car produced between 1965 and 1972, right from the first units with their completely hand beaten bodies to the last Flavia Sport 1600.