Following his absence from work after his serious F1 accident, he returned to Ferrari in 1969 to find the company partly under the control of Fiat and at that point decided to work for Scuderia Filipinetti as engineer as well as driver.
Logo da súa ausencia no traballo logo do seu grave accidente de F1, regresou a Ferrari en 1969 para atopar a compañía en parte baixo o control de Fiat e nese momento decidiu traballar para a Scuderia Filipinetti como enxeñeiro, así como piloto.