facetti between 1975 and 1976, was a racer and designer for lancia, participating in the european championship for grand touring cars. while facetti immediately begins working on a 24-valve version of the dino v6 engine, he was racing them. he was leading the giro d'italia automobilistico when he retired with gearbox problems. "they were three stratros on the giro that year; a turbo-charged 2-valve carburetor for munari, a pinto and [his] 4 valves with indirect injectons. [he] retired because [he] was too stressed keeping the engine level with the much more powerful alfa romeo tipo 33 prototype of jean-claude andruet". although the frenchman retired before facetti, his statros was out of the fight really battered… "in casale, in a final step before arrival, broke a connecting rod first, then infill the injection pump and finally fire!"