Il Barone Rampante

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Il Barone Rampante, sometimes known as Benetton Junior, was a Formula 3000 team founded by Giuseppe Cipriani. The name comes from Italo Calvino’s 1957 book The Baron in the Trees. The team competed in International Formula 3000 from 1991 to 1993, with drivers including Alessandro Zanardi (second in 1991), Rubens Barrichello (third in 1992), Andrea Montermini (second in 1992), Jan Lammers, Max Angelelli and Pedro Chaves. The team never won a title. Its best results were two second places: Zanardi in 1991 and Montermini in 1992. In 1992 they tried to join Formula One as a Benetton B-team by trying to buy Fondmetal and Tyrrell, but the effort failed. Cipriani revived the name in 2017 to race in the World Series Formula V8 3.5 season, alongside Damiano Fioravanti. The team finished seventh and last in the teams’ standings, and did not win any race.