Il Palmarès

Trophies, cups and records.

Everything the griffin has won since 1950, and where it is kept — the Sala dei Trofei at Borgo San Faustino.

16Constructors' titles
14Drivers' titles
214Grand Prix wins
924 Ore di Sant'Elia

Grand Prix record as at the end of the 2025 season: 214 wins and 198 pole positions from 742 starts, plus 205 fastest laps.

World Grand Prix Championship

Constructors' titles — 16

1961, 1964, 1966, 1975, 1979, 1984, 1990, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2019, 2022.

Drivers' champions — 14

Year(s)DriverNationality
1961, 1964Giancarlo Fassi🇮🇹 Italy
1975, 1976Nils Ehrengard🇸🇪 Sweden
1979, 1984Piercarlo Vanni🇮🇹 Italy
1990Duilio Ferro🇮🇹 Italy
2000, 2001, 2004Rafael Cordeiro🇧🇷 Brazil
2007, 2008Emanuele Storti🇮🇹 Italy
2019, 2022Lorenzo Prandelli🇮🇹 Italy
The record that still stands. The 2004 works team won eleven consecutive Grands Prix — from the Gran Premio di Primavera to the season finale — a run no constructor has since equalled. Rafael Cordeiro scored in every round that year.

Endurance & road racing

EventWinsYears
24 Ore di Sant'Elia (overall)91958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1972, 1998, 1999, 2011, 2012
Mille Colline (open-road)41950, 1951, 1953, 1957
Gran Corsa del Sud21953, 1954
Coppa delle Dolomiti (hillclimb)61955–1960 (consecutive)

The Sala dei Trofei

The company's trophies are displayed in a single climate-controlled hall inside the Palazzina Vantaggi, opened to the public with the museum in 1990. The most significant pieces:

  • 1953Coppa del Sud, the marque's first international trophy, won in Argentina and the origin of the "Velocità con Onore" motto.
  • 1961Gran Premio d'Oro, awarded for the first World Grand Prix double; a gilt-bronze griffin cast by the Modenese sculptor Renzo Baldi.
  • 1972Coppa Endurance di Sant'Elia, the enormous silver ewer given for a 1–2–3 finish, the only such result in the marque's endurance history.
  • 1990Trofeo del Grifone, struck by the championship organisers to mark Duilio Ferro's last-lap title.
  • 2004Piastra degli Undici, a plaque commissioned by the company itself to commemorate the eleven consecutive victories; the only trophy in the hall the marque awarded to itself.
  • 2022Coppa dei Costruttori, the current championship's constructors' cup, most recently held after Lorenzo Prandelli's title.
The empty plinth. One plinth in the centre of the hall is deliberately left empty. A small brass label reads only “Il prossimo” — "the next one." It has stood empty, by tradition, since the room opened.

Records & distinctions

  • Fastest lap of the Pista del Faggio by a road-legal car: 1:18.4, set by the RC-90 Corsa in 2019.
  • Only independent constructor to win a World Grand Prix title in seven different decades (1960s–2020s).
  • Longest continuous participation of any active marque in the World Grand Prix Championship — since 1959, without a missed season.
  • Awarded the Medaglia d'Oro della Città di Modena in 1997 for services to Emilian industry.