Enrico Giaccone

Giaccone had been employed as a test driver for Fiat SpA from a young age, and in 1922 was the marque's sole representative in the Targa Florio, driving his own Fiat 501. Giaccone came 5th overall and won his class.^[1] He made his Grand Prix debut at the 1922 Italian Grand Prix in a Fiat 804, although a broken gearbox meant he barely got off the grid.^[2] He did however come 2nd at the Gran Premio delle Vetturette, behind team-mate Pietro Bordino.

Giaccone did much better at the 1923 French Grand Prix, leading from laps 14 to 17 (half-distance), but mechanical problems sent him down the field, and he retired with a broken exhaust on lap 19.^[3]

On 26 August 1923, during a Fiat team test at the Monza circuit in preparation for the 1923 Italian Grand Prix, Giaccone was riding in a Fiat 804 with Bordino at the wheel. At the start of a five-lap fuel consumption run, the Fiat broke a spindle and lost a wheel, resulting in a collision which injured both drivers; although Bordino recovered enough to race in the Grand Prix, Giaccone died on admission to hospital.^[4]