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Unusually this round of the Italian F3 Championship was scheduled to be run on the same day as the Nations Cup at Thruxton which effectively prevented Italy sending a team to England.
The Coupe Agip was held over two heats and a final and pole position was taken by the Tecno of Luigi Fontanesi from the Martini of François Rabbione and the works Branca of Giovanni Salvati.
The first heat saw a win for the Brabham BT28 of Adelmo Fossati from Jean Blanc who was returning to F3 with his F2 car fitted with a Novamotor, third was the Martini of Phillipe Albera. All three cars were covered by 0.4 seconds at the flag.
Heat two was a victory for the Tecno of Giovanni Salvati by 0.1 seconds from the similar car of Carlo Giorgio with another Tecno, that of Sombanef, third a further 0.3 down and 0.4 seconds ahead of Claude Bourgoignie’s Lotus 69. The final saw a win for Salvati’s Tecno by 0.2 seconds from Bourgoignie with Giorgio and Rabbione a similar distance behind and Blanc trailing in 7 seconds behind these four.
f3 HISTORY
RACES
Race Report: Monza, 19 September 1971
Qualifying
1 Luigi Fontanesi
Tecno-Novamotor
2 François Rabbione
Alpine-Renault A360 1:32.7
3 Giovanni Salvati
Branca-Novamotor
4 Phillipe Albera
Martini-Novamotor MW7
5 Claude Bourgoignie
Lotus-Holbay 69
RACE Heat 1
1 Adelmo Fossati
Brabham-Novamotor BT28 19:12.8 20
2 Jean Blanc
Tecno-Novamotor 19:12.8 20
3 Phillipe Albera
Martini-Novamotor MW7 19:12.8 20
4 François Rabbione
Martini-Novamotor MW7 19:12.9 20
5 Joël Auvray
Martini-Novamotor MW7 19:12.9 20
6 Girolamo Bertoni
Brabham-Ford BT28 19:13.9 20
7 Carlo Scarambone
Chevron-Alfa Romeo B17 19:14.4 20
8 Andrea Zucchi
Brabham-Ford BT35 19:15.2 20
9 Max Bonin
Brabham-Novamotor BT28 19:15.6 20
10 Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi
Brabham-Ford BT28 19:17.8 20
11 Dietmar Flöer
March-Ford 713M 19:41.8 20
12 Laurent Rotti
Scorpion-Ford 17
RACE Heat 2
1 Giovanni Salvati
Branca-Novamotor 18:49.2 20
2 Carlo Giorgio
Tecno-Novamotor 18:49.2 20
3 Luigi Fontanesi
Tecno-Novamotor 18:49.2 20
4 Claude Bourgoignie
Lotus-Holbay 69 18:49.3 20
5 Vittorio Venturi
Tecno-Alfa Romeo 19:03.8 20
6 Sandro Cinotti
de Sanctis-Ford 19:08.0 20
7 Ian Ashley
EMC-Ford 606 19:08.2 20
8 "Gero"
Quasar-Ford 19:08.4 20
9 Giuseppe 'Pino' Babbini
Tecno-Ford 19:09.2 20
10 Luigi Battistello
Brabham-Alfa Romeo 19:33.7 20
11 Giuseppe Piazzi
Chevron-Alfa Romeo 19
12 Vittorio Brambilla
Birel-Alfa Romeo 18
13 Alberto Corazza
Chevron-Alfa Romeo 17
Race Final
1 Giovanni Salvati
Branca-Novamotor 29:10.2 31
2 Claude Bourgoignie
Lotus-Holbay 69 29:10.4 31
3 Carlo Giorgio
Tecno-Novamotor 29:24.7 31
4 François Rabbione
Martini-Novamotor MW7 29:24.8 31
5 Jean Blanc
Tecno-Novamotor 29:31.9 31
6 Sandro Cinotti
de Sanctis-Ford 29:32.5 31
7 Girolamo Bertoni
Brabham-Ford BT28 29:32.6 31
8 Joël Auvray
Martini-Novamotor MW7 29:32.7 31
9 "Gero"
Quasar-Ford 29:32.8 31
10 Andrea Zucchi
Brabham-Ford BT35 29:33.0 31
11 Ian Ashley
EMC-Ford 606 29:34.0 31
12 Philippe Albera
Martini-Novamotor MW7 29:47.4 31
13 Vittorio Venturi
Tecno-Alfa Romeo 29:47.5 31
14 Carlo Scarambone
Chevron-Alfa Romeo B17 30