he tried to qualify for the gran premio d'italia in a scuderia finotto prepared brabham-cosworth bt42. he was entered in the place of helmuth koinigg, but neither driver, despite their best efforts were simply not enough to qualify the car. but there was some mystery surrounding facetti entry for monza. with facetti already due in the car for the meeting, an entry was provisionally received for jean-louis lafosse, but reject by the organizers, leaving the team to tend the no.31 brabham of facetti.