Dywa Cars
| Full name | Dywa Cars |
|---|---|
| Base | Monza, Italy |
| Founder(s) | Dydo Monguzzi |
| Noted drivers | Piercarlo Ghinzani |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Races entered | 0 |
| Constructors' Championships | 0 |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
Dywa Cars was a racing car constructor from Italy, active in the 1970s and 1980s.
History
The firm was founded in 1969 by Pietro "Dydo" Monguzzi, from Milan, with his brother-in-law Walter Nebuloni, to build cars for lower formulae in Italian domestic racing; the Dywa name is a combination of Dydo and Walter.
Nebuloni soon left the project, and the first cars produced by Dywa included a Formula 2 car, but it was not suitable for racing. The first Dywa to appear on international entry lists was a Formula 5000 car in 1975, powered by a Chevrolet engine.[1] Driven by Luigi Cevasco, it failed to qualify for a couple of European Formula 5000 Championship races,[2] and was entered for a number of races in 1976, never turning up.
Formula 1
In 1979, Monguzzi produced a Cosworth DFV-powered Formula 1 car, dubbed the 008, at a motor show in Salerno. Its only appearance at a race was at the 1980 Monza Lotteria, then a round of the 1980 British Formula One Championship. European Formula 3 champion Piercarlo Ghinzani was persuaded to drive it, but the car - dubbed "a collection of square tubing randomly thrown around an aluminium monocoque-type structure which seems to lack any kind of unitary strength" and an "abysmal creation [which] looked like a relic from an O-level metalwork class" in Autosport - was 37 seconds off the pace, and never appeared again.[3]
Monguzzi updated the car into another prototype, called the 010,[4] in 1983, which was tested at Monza by Italian Formula 3 racer Giampiero Consonni,[5] but it never appeared at a race meeting.
Formula 3000
In 1986, Monguzzi teamed with Monaco-based racer Fulvio Ballabio, to turn the Dywa into a car for the second-tier Formula 3000 championship. Now dubbed the Monte Carlo MC001, and entered by Ballabio's Monte Carlo Automobile,[6] it appeared at one race - the Trofeo Elio de Angelis at Imola - with Ballabio at the wheel. The time required to be one of the 26 qualifiers was 1 minute 41.7 seconds; Ballabio's best lap was over three minutes.[7] Ballabio himself remarked that the car "made a Merzario look like a McLaren"[8] and he gave up on the project.
References
- ^ "Dywa-Chevrolet". Speedfreaks. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "Dydo Monguzzi". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ Brown, Allen. "Dywa 1980 history". Old Racing Cars. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "Ecco una nostranissima F.1". Consonni Tuning. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ Teso, Roberto (27 November 1983). "Tanto giovane eppur già Dywa". Autosprint: 25.
- ^ Hodges, David (1998). A.to Z. of Formula Racing Cars 1945-1990. London: Motorbooks. p. 164.
- ^ "1986 Imola F3000". Motor Sport. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
- ^ "Ballabio's disaster". Autosport. 103 (11): 5. 12 June 1986.
