Gieffe Racing

For motorsport, these are still pioneering years(with the exception of the most prestigious categories like Formula 1), and races took place also on Thursdays with 80/90 cars ready to line up on the track, divided into batteries.
They were also racing at night.. with the “pioneers pilots” who had to lower their mirrors manually to avoid being dazzled somewere in the track.

Motorsport was still made of passion, poor organization and also, few safety too. However names were already circulating in the environment, that would have soon made the Italian history such as Enzo Ferrari or, later, following in his footsteps, like Dallara and Abarth.

In this context, the conditions are created for the birth of new important realities.
The young driver Mauro Ghislieri, after winning the Italian Cadet Championship Monza in ‘69 and subsequently racing in Formula 3, stimulated by the idea of ​​his friend Guido Forti, definitively decided not to follow the family business in the management of two cinemas in Valenza, a Piedmontese town on the border with Lombardy.

Together, Mauro and Guido decided to make good use of their skills and knowledge in the world of engines.
What used to be a personal need for a driver and car tuner becomes a business idea: trading components and spare parts for racing cars.

In those years Mauro and Guido began to shuttle back and forth from England to Italy (many Italian teams raced with English cars) for the supply of gears, tires and chassis.

Passion therefore became an activity: in the midst of the hundreds of goldsmith factories that proliferate in Valenza, the two pioneers of the racing trade rent 2 garages as a warehouse.
To go internally from one to the other it was even necessary to pass through the cellars of the building, but this didn’t stop the desire to start and grow professionally.

With the help of the first collaborators, the spare parts were purchased in England and brought to Italy on a small van (a yellow Ford Transit) or on the roof of the car. Everything was very extemporary, just like transporting chassis with a horse cart!

Guido Forti, now very busy in F1, thus decides to sell his share to the “historic” employees of the company.
The activity started to become increasingly important, gaining the confidence of an ever-increasing number of drivers, tuners and teams which led Gieffe to share many victories in formula 1 and in all the main international series with some customers.

The company grew more and more, raising its turnover and the number of employees up, but without ever losing the spirit of dedication that created it.
A lot of professionalism and seriousness that is also sought after in the personnel selected to cover all roles in the company, to always provide customers with the best assistance to guarantee their success.

A formula that pays off and allows Gieffe to advance even in the new millennium, always remaining at the forefront under the internal organizational and technological aspect (the company has ISO 9001 certification for years), and to enrich more and more a well-stocked warehouse and the catalogue, become sales leader in Italy and official distributor of the top brands in the automotive world. The expansion of international markets is also supported by the development of the ever-evolving Gieffe Racing e-commerce portal.

We have come to tell the first decades of 2000, photos of our memories are now clear and digital, when Mauro Ghislieri, on the threshold of his 70s, evaluates leaving Gieffe to devote himself almost completely to his other passions, like flying: his second love.

Unfortunately, on 17 September 2017 Mauro lost his life in a tragic accident with his Piper Pa-34 in the Piedmontese skies.