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'{{Short description|Italian kart and racing car constructor}} {{Distinguish|Tekno Autosports}} {{Infobox F1 team |Short_name = Tecno |Logo = |Long_name = Tecno Racing Team |Base = [[Bologna]], Italy |Founders = Luciano Pederzani<br>Gianfranco Pederzani |Staff = Gordon Fowell, Alan McCall, David Yorke, Giuseppe Bocchi, [[Ron Tauranac]] |Drivers = {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Nanni Galli]]<br>{{flagicon|UK}} [[Derek Bell (racing driver)|Derek Bell]]<br>{{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Chris Amon]] |Debut = [[1972 Belgian Grand Prix]] |Races = 10 |Cons_champ = 0 <small>(best finish: 11th, {{f1|1973}})</small> |Drivers_champ = 0 |Wins = 0 <small>(best finish: 6th, [[1973 Belgian Grand Prix]])</small> |Poles = 0 <small>(best grid position: 12th, [[1973 Monaco Grand Prix]])</small> |Fastest_laps = 0 |Last race = [[1973 Austrian Grand Prix]] }} '''Tecno''' is an Italian [[Kart racing|kart]] and former [[Auto racing|racing car]] constructor based in [[Bologna]]. It won the [[European Formula Two Championship]] in 1970 and became a [[Formula One]] [[Formula One#Constructors|constructor]], participating in 10 grands prix and scoring one championship point.<ref>https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/teams/tecno-racing-team/</ref> ==History== Tecno started out as an engineering business in [[Bologna]] manufacturing hydraulic pumps. In 1961, the company's owners, brothers Luciano and Gianfranco Pederzani, decided to enter motor sport as constructors of [[karting|karts]]. In 1966 the company moved on up into car racing with [[Formula 3]]. Swiss driver [[Clay Regazzoni]] scored Tecno's first international win in Spain in 1967 and by the end of the year Tecno had won 32 of the season's 65 major F3 races. Tecno was the first company to build an offset ('sidewinder') kart chassis to take advantage of the newly developed air-cooled rotary motors produced by Parilla. Tecno's first chassis was named the Kaimano (a play on the Italian word for the Camen crocodile and the source of the logo). The Kaimano's design was based on the American rear-engine karts of the early 1960s. The second chassis, the Piuma ('Feather'), revolutionized karting design, and was so successful that it won the World Championships in 1964, 1965 and 1966.<ref>http://www.f3history.co.uk/Manufacturers/Tecno/tecno.htm</ref> In 1969 [[Ronnie Peterson]] drove for the team, winning 15 races. In 1970 Tecno debuted in [[Formula 2]] and won that year's championship with Regazzoni.<ref>https://www.italiaonroad.it/2019/07/04/la-storia-della-tecno-la-rossa-di-bologna/</ref> Tecno's success in junior formulae stirred the interest of Count [[Teofilo Guiscardo Rossi di Montelera]] (of [[Martini & Rossi]] fame), who became a partner and title sponsor of the Pederzani brothers in an attempt to build an Formula One car and engine. Tecno's Formula One car made its first competitive appearance at the [[1972 Belgian Grand Prix]] in the hands of [[Nanni Galli]]. The team chose to adopt the colour red for the chassis, partly to honour the long-standing tradition of Italian racing teams competing with that tonality, and partly to better accommodate their title sponsor. The engine, designed by Luciano Pederzani, Renato Armaroli and Giuseppe Bocchi, was a [[flat-twelve engine]] very similar to the contemporary [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] unit, although apparently considerably less powerful. Galli managed to finish third in the non-valid for the championship [[1972 Italian Republic Grand Prix]] in [[Vallelunga]], but he wouldn't score points for the rest of the season. For the [[1972 Italian Grand Prix|Italian Grand Prix]] Tecno fielded a second car driven by [[Derek Bell (racing driver)|Derek Bell]]. Although Galli outqualified Bell, team manager David Yorke elected to retain Bell for the final two races in North America, terminating Galli's involvement with the company. [[File:1972 Tecno PA123 (19807884464).jpg|thumb|left|1972 Tecno PA123]] In 1973, serious disagreements between the Pederzani brothers and Rossi and Yorke over the sporting and technical direction of the team generated a fracture that the two parties were never able to fully recompose. The Pederzanis were interested in hiring Clay Regazzoni, then a relatively new prospect, whereas Rossi and Yorke wanted the expert [[Chris Amon]], who had been unable to agree terms with [[March Engineering]] for the season. Yorke and Rossi commissioned a new chassis from designer Gordon Fowell, while the Pederzanis hired Alan McCall to design a new car. McCall left before the project was fully developed, and the car was completed by [[Ron Tauranac]], who was freelancing after selling [[Brabham]] at the end of 1972. After missing the early-season races due to the interal turmoil, Tecno finally debuted with the McCall/Tauranac car at the [[1973 Belgian Grand Prix|Belgian Grand Prix]], where Amon finished sixth, achieving the team's first and only point. The car continued to show good promise in its second outing at the drivers circuit of Monaco, where Amon qualified 12th, in front of [[Jackie Ickx]]'s [[Ferrari]], and ran well in the upper midfield for 25 laps. At the [[1973 British Grand Prix|British Grand Prix]], Tecno found itself in the peculiar position of having two different cars available, with both the Fowell "Goral" car and the McCall/Touranac car in the garage. Amon qualified last. He managed to escape the multiple collision triggered by [[Jody Scheckter]] during the opening stages of the race that took out nine cars but had to retired with a broken fuel pump after six laps. Amon moved up to qualify 23rd for the [[1973 Dutch Grand Prix|Dutch Grand Prix]] but he had to retire again after 22 laps with the same technical problem. [[File:Tecno E371 - panoramio.jpg|thumb|right|1973 Tecno E371]] Having two different, underfunded and underdeveloped cars competing with scarce resources made the team's struggle untenable, and by the [[1973 Austrian Grand Prix|Austrian Grand Prix]], the ongoing dispute between the Pederzanis and Yorke and Rossi resulted in a discontented Amon leaving the team to drive for [[Tyrrell]]. Despite having commissioned an eight-cylinder engine for the following year, the Pederzanis decided to shut down the Formula One program. Rossi took the Martini & Rossi sponsorship to Brabham in 1974, and eventually established the racing brand [[Martini Racing]]; Luciano and Gianfranco Pederzani retired from the sport, citing the toxic atmosphere that pervaded the team in 1973 as the main cause of their disillusionment.<ref>https://www.motoremotion.it/2017/11/06/tecno-sogno-bolognese-della-formula-uno/</ref> ==Complete Formula One results== ([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 2|key]]) {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%" ! Year ! Chassis ! Engine(s) ! Tyres ! Drivers ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! 12 ! 13 ! 14 ! 15 ! Points ! WCC |- | rowspan="3"| {{F1|1972}} | rowspan="3"| Tecno PA123 | rowspan="3"| Tecno Series-P<br>[[Flat-twelve engine|F12]] | rowspan="3"| {{Firestone}} || | [[1972 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]] | [[1972 South African Grand Prix|RSA]] | [[1972 Spanish Grand Prix|ESP]] | [[1972 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]] | [[1972 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]] | [[1972 French Grand Prix|FRA]] | [[1972 British Grand Prix|GBR]] | [[1972 German Grand Prix|GER]] | [[1972 Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]] | [[1972 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]] | [[1972 Canadian Grand Prix|CAN]] | [[1972 United States Grand Prix|USA]] | | | |rowspan="3"|'''0''' |rowspan="3"|'''NC''' |- |align="left"| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Derek Bell (racing driver)|Derek Bell]] || || || || || |style="background:#FFFFFF;"| DNS || |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret || |style="background:#FFCFCF;"| DNQ |style="background:#FFFFFF;"| DNS |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret || || | |- |align="left"| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Nanni Galli]] || || || || |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret || |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret || |style="background:#CFCFFF;"| NC |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret || || || || || |- | rowspan="2"| {{F1|1973}} | rowspan="2"| Tecno PA123B<br>Tecno E731 | rowspan="2"| Tecno Series-P<br>[[Flat-twelve engine|F12]] | rowspan="2"| {{Firestone}} || | [[1973 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]] | [[1973 Brazilian Grand Prix|BRA]] | [[1973 South African Grand Prix|RSA]] | [[1973 Spanish Grand Prix|ESP]] | [[1973 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]] | [[1973 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]] | [[1973 Swedish Grand Prix|SWE]] | [[1973 French Grand Prix|FRA]] | [[1973 British Grand Prix|GBR]] | [[1973 Dutch Grand Prix|NED]] | [[1973 German Grand Prix|GER]] | [[1973 Austrian Grand Prix|AUT]] | [[1973 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]] | [[1973 Canadian Grand Prix|CAN]] | [[1973 United States Grand Prix|USA]] |rowspan="2"|'''1''' |rowspan="2"|'''11th''' |- |align="left"| {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Chris Amon]] || || || || |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| 6 |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret || || |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret |style="background:#EFCFFF;"| Ret || |style="background:#FFFFFF;"| DNS || || | |- !colspan="22"|{{center|{{small|Source:<ref>{{cite book|last=Small|first=Steve|title=The Guinness Complete Grand Prix Who's Who|date=1994|publisher=Guinness|pages=24, 52 and 147 |isbn=0851127029}}</ref>}}}} |} ===Non-Championship results=== ([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 3|key]]) (Races in '''bold''' indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap.) {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%" |- ! Year ! Entrant ! Chassis ! Engine ! Driver ! 1 |- | rowspan=2| [[1972 Formula One season|1972]] ! rowspan=2| [[Martini Racing Team]] ! [[Tecno]] [[PA123]] ! Tecno Series P[[F12]] |align="left"| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Nanni Galli]] |style="background:#DFFFDF;"| [[1972 Italian Republic Grand Prix|REP]]<br>{{small|3}} |- |} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Formula One constructors}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Formula One constructors]] [[Category:Formula One entrants]] [[Category:Formula Two entrants]] [[Category:Italian auto racing teams]] [[Category:Italian racecar constructors]] [[Category:Manufacturing companies based in Bologna]]'