for 1963, he moved to touring cars to race in the inaugural european touring car challenge, with lancia's works team, hf squadra corse. he used a lancia flaminia to fight with the best from around europe, at the circuits such as nürburgring, brands hatch and népliget park, budapest. it was at the later, that facetti, paired with luigi cabella would score his first major international victory. early 1964, he return to formula junior racing in argentina, in the four race temporada series for scuderia sant'ambroeus. he took their lotus-ford 22 to a series best of fifth place in the gran premio internacional ciudad de buenos aires. ""i was the italian driver to run multiple editions of the race in south america. there i had the pleasure of meeting the great juan manuel fangio and later become good friends and we were often in competition in buenos aires and mar del plata."" after returning from south america, he runs a formula three teams with jo siffert and clay regazzoni, then participates himself in 1965. back with scuderia sant'ambroeus, he finished second the campionato italiano driving a brabham-ford bt16.