Carlos Pairetti and his nephew Santino, who followed in his footsteps.
Carlo Alberto Pairettilegend of Argentine motorsport, died at dawn this morning at the age of 86 in a clinic in the city of Pergamino, in Buenos Aires, suffering from respiratory and heart deficiencies, as confirmed by his son to the Télam agency Eduardo “Mani” Pairetti
The former Motorway Tourism champion, originally from Santa Fe, had been hospitalized for weeks in Arrecifes, from which he was transferred to Pergamino on Sunday due to a health problem.
Pairetti had bilateral pneumonia which caused his condition to worsen about a month ago and some time ago he had overcome a stroke, from which he managed to recover to the point of attending the Oscar and Juan Gálvez racecourse to see the debut of the grandson Santino, son of “Tim”, in the ALMA category, with a Fiat Uno Classe 2.
Illustrious member of the “Cradle of Champions” of Arrecifes, Pairetti entered the gallery of the great personalities of national motoring with his remembered title TC in 1968 aboard a Chevrolet coupé immortalized as the “Orange thunder”.
The Deliberative Council of Arrecifes had declared in 2022 its beloved sons Carlos Alberto Pairetti, Néstor Jesús García Veiga and the late Rubén Luis Di Palma and Carlos Marincovich “Illustrious citizens”, known as the “Poker of Aces” for their transcendence in the engine world.
Source: Telam
Source: Clarin
