Renzo Zorzi Accident

Renzo Zorz was an Italian racing driver who competed in seven Formula One Grands Prix for the Williams and Shadow teams between 1975 and 1977.

He started in Formula Three while working for Pirelli before moving on to Formula One. He later raced sports cars before returning to Pirelli to run a driving school. He is the only driver from the Trentino province who has competed in Formula One.

Zorzi died on May 15, 2015, at the age of 68, in a hospital in Magenta, Lombardy, following a long illness. His funeral was held on May 18 in his birthplace of Ziano. Andrea, his son, survived him.

Reno Zorz was involved in an indirect fatal accident during the 1977 South African Grand Prix after retiring his car due to a split fuel pipe that caused an engine fire.

While Zorzi extinguished the fire with his onboard extinguisher, two fire marshals ran across the track, and one of them, Frederick Jansen Van Vuuren, was hit and killed by Zorzi’s teammate Tom Pryce’s car.