page_title: Nicola Materazzi
section_title: Lancia, Abarth, Osella (1968-1979)
hierarchical_section_title: Nicola Materazzi / Lancia, Abarth, Osella (1968-1979)
caption_attribution_description: Built 1975. The only survivor of two factory Group 5 racing versions of the Stratos rally car. Powered by fuel-injected dry sump turbochrged V6 developing 560bhp and weighing just 850kg. Not seen in public for nearly 30 years.
context_page_description: Nicola Materazzi is an Italian mechanical engineer who developed several sports and racing cars, including the Ferrari 288 GTO, Ferrari F40 and Bugatti EB110. He is best known for being Italy's turbo specialist from the mid 1970s as well as a respected sports car and motorcycle engineer.
context_section_description: After high school he spent the summers of 1964 and 1965 in internships at the Mobil Oil refinery near Naples where he learns about fuels and the important octane properties of different formulations of gasoline. After graduation in engineering at the University of Naples, he spent about a year working there as an assistant professor, leaving during the tense atmosphere created by the student protests of 1968.
  Hired by the Lancia technical team in the early seventies, he moved to Turin where he worked as a calculations specialist on chassis, suspension and steering structures. One of his first important experiences was to participate in the development of the Lancia Stratos for rallying. Later as part of the design team responsible for modifying the engine and aerodynamics of the Group 5 turbocharged Stratos Silhouette, thus starting his long technical career, mostly dedicated to the design and testing of supercharged engines.
  In 1978, following the merger of the Lancia and FIAT racing departments, he went to Abarth to design the car for the Formula FIAT Abarth, a racing series for developing young race drivers.
  At the end of 1978, he worked at Osella where he was responsible for the design of a Formula 2 car (FA2) and later of a Formula 1 car. However he did not follow the FA1's racing campaign because by January 1980 he was working at Ferrari.
caption: Lancia Stratos Turbo Group 5
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