Andrea Sassetti (born 1960)[1] is an Italian shoe designer, owner of the Italian fashion company Andrea Moda, a brand of high-end women's shoes.[2] Born in Fermo, he was also the owner of a Formula One motor racing team Andrea Moda Formula in 1992. The origin of Sassetti's fortune remain blurred; some sources attribute it to his father, Silvano Sassetti, a wealthy shoe manufacturer. Others suggest that he won a huge sum playing poker in the 1980s or hint at links with the mafia and illegal trade. According to a telephone interview published on the internet, Sassetti was born into a family of poor peasants who grew rich by working and earning money through gambling.[3][4]
When preparing for the 1992 Formula One World Championship, the headquarters of Andrea Moda Formula was installed in the former workshops of the Coloni team, Passignano sul Trasimeno, a small town in central Italy.[5][6] The new team, which had forty employees, continued to use the materials from the old team; according to several observers, Sassetti had very little, if any, additional funding invested in improving the infrastructure, which could have denoted a lack of seriousness of the new racing structure.[6][7]
In January 1992, in order to complete his racing staff, Sassetti set out to recruit, among others, a mechanic and truck driver from among the workers at his shoe factory.[5] During 1992, a suspected case of arson destroyed Sassetti's discothèque on the east coast of Italy, and as he fled from the flames, a gunman shot at him but missed.[8] He now runs restaurants and nightclubs, and is involved in the construction business. Still interested in the sport, he had a home until the early 2000s with the two original Andrea Moda S921 cars; the cars subsequently disappeared.[9]
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^ abBuchkalter, Patrice; Galeron, Jean-François (1992). Tout sur la Formule 1 1992 [All about Formula 1 1992] (in French). Suresnes: Jean-Pierre Taillandrier. p. 120. ISBN 2876361078.
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^Barbé, Stéphane; Dall'Secco, Fabrice; Snowflake, Gerard (1992). "Automobile Occasional 92-03 entire Formula 1 1992" [L'Automobile hors série 92-03 Toute la Formule 1 1992]. Techniques and Tourist Éditions (in French). France. p. 54.
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^Brunelli, Roberto (5 August 2023). "Last and Furious – la vera storia della Andrea Moda Formula" [Last and Furious – The true history of Andrea Moda Formula] (in Italian). Retrieved 2 January 2024.
AndreaSassetti (born 1960) is an Italian shoe designer, owner of the Italian fashion company Andrea Moda, a brand of high-end women's shoes. Born in Fermo...
Sassetti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: AndreaSassetti (born 1960), Italian shoe designer, owner of the Italian fashion company...
One World Championship. The team was owned by Italian shoe designer AndreaSassetti, who named the team after his company. The team contested nine races...
failure. The team was expelled from the championship after team owner AndreaSassetti was arrested at Spa for financial irregularities, and following an...
Italian shoemaker AndreaSassetti. The team retained the name Coloni Racing for the final two rounds of that season but was renamed Andrea Moda Formula in...
Formula One season, when he was signed by the independent Andrea Moda team run by AndreaSassetti who thought that entering Formula One would be a good way...
Moreno and McCarthy had been recruited by Andrea Moda after team boss AndreaSassetti had fired both his drivers (Alex Caffi and Enrico Bertaggia) after...
the new Andrea Moda team. The Andrea Moda fashion company, owned by AndreaSassetti, had bought the Coloni team, which had failed to pre-qualify at every...
team alongside Roberto Moreno. Team boss AndreaSassetti had been approached by Enrico Bertaggia, whom Sassetti had sacked after the Mexican Grand Prix...
jammed, and that he suspected the steering rack was flexing. Team boss AndreaSassetti replied that the team already knew the rack was faulty because it had...
The results did not improve and Coloni sold his team to AndreaSassetti, who renamed it Andrea Moda Formula for 1992. (key) The team had another stint...
the team announced it had been purchased by Italian shoe designer AndreaSassetti. Qualifying saw the top teams' second drivers beating the championship...
entered for their final Grand Prix; new owner AndreaSassetti had confirmed that the team would be reborn as Andrea Moda Formula for the following season. Williams...
sign for the new Andrea Moda team, alongside Italian Enrico Bertaggia. The team, owned by shoe-magnate and playboy AndreaSassetti, had bought out the...
Andrea Sassetti abandoned the C4B car with its Coloni origins, and brought forward the introduction of their new car, the Simtek-designed Andrea Moda S921...
notable example being the inclusion of the Sassetti and Medici families in Domenico Ghirlandaio's cycle in the Sassetti Chapel. Portraiture was to become a major...
the 1480s. From 1482, he worked on the Stories of Saint Francis in the Sassetti Chapel in Santa Trinita, and from 1485 on the Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa...
the team. He made an attempt to return to Andrea Moda with a new sponsorship deal, but owner AndreaSassetti had already used up his allowed number of...
Ghirlandaio painted a fresco cycle in the Sassetti Chapel of Santa Trinita for the banker Francesco Sassetti, the powerful director of the Medici bank...
the team collapsed following team owner AndreaSassetti's arrest at the Belgian Grand Prix. After the Andrea Moda disaster, he spent the next two seasons...
and so they arranged to sell their rights to the choir to the Sassetti. Francesco Sassetti wanted the new frescoes to portray stories of St. Francis of...
di San Martino, Naples Martin Schongauer, Berlin Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinita, Florence Gerard van Honthorst, Wallraf-Richartz...
still children. Brazil imported some of Lisbon's Chinese slaves. Fillippo Sassetti saw some Chinese and Japanese slaves in Lisbon among the large slave community...
Domenico Ghirlandaio painted Sibyls on the ceiling of Santa Trinita's Sassetti Chapel approximately 20 years prior to the start of the Sistine Chapel...
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