The championship was conceived by the CSAI as this, acting as a preparatory category to the Formula 3, it had to be particularly economical, the cars had no device that created the ground effect nor any wing appendage.
The first cars were presented at the Monza racetrack the Saturday before the 1979 Italian Grand Prix in the presence of Jody Scheckter, on Sunday morning one was taken to the track by the test driver Giorgio Pianta. At the presentation it was indicated the production program provided for the construction of 50 cars by the following March; the single-brand championship began in 1980; and continued until 1986.
A single-seater was donated to the weekly Autosprint because it assigned it to the young driver Roberto Ravaglia; but the pilot, launched by this series, and who had better luck was Alessandro Nannini, winner of the second championship of the category, disputed in 1981. |