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Tecno was a Formula One constructor from Italy. They participated in 10 grands prix, entering a total of 11 cars. They scored 1 championship point.

Tecno started as a constructor of karts in Bologna, run by the Pederzani brothers. They soon moved up into car racing with Formula 3 (winning several championships in 1968) and Formula 2 chassis, the F2 being good enough to take the 1970 F2 championship in the hands of Clay Regazzoni.

Tecno was highly successful in junior formulae, and an interested sponsor in the shape of Count Rossi (of Martini and Rossi fame) was prepared to back the brothers in an attempt to build an F1 car and engine.

This made its first competitive appearance at the 1972 Belgian Grand Prix in the hands of Nanni Galli. The car was unremarkable, the engine a flat-12 very similar to the contemporary Ferrari unit, although apparently considerably less powerful. Galli shared the car that season with Derek Bell; neither managed to score points. Both chassis and engine were prone to breaking. Ron Tauranac, freelancing after selling Brabham, made some improvements to the car but performance did not improve significantly.

For 1973 Tecno found itself in the strange position of having two radically different cars, one of them backed by the team's sponsors and the other by the Pederzani brothers. Count Rossi had taken on experienced British racing manager David Yorke and driver Chris Amon (who had been unable to agree terms with March Engineering for the season). Yorke and Rossi commissioned a new chassis from designer Gordon Fowell, while the Pederzanis hired Alan McCall to design a new car for them. McCall left before the car was fully developed, just to add to the chaos. Tecno missed the early-season races and used the McCall car to little effect from Belgium on, and by the British Grand Prix both the Fowell "GorAl" car and the McCall car were available.

Having two different, underfunded and underdeveloped cars competing for scarce resources is hardly a recipe for success, and by mid-season there was a virtual civil war between the Pederzanis and Yorke and Rossi. Amon achieved the team's only point in the McCall car in Belgium. (He had severe difficulty even fitting into the cockpit of the GorAl car, which only ever appeared in practice - although Amon claimed it had the potential to be one of the best chassis he'd ever raced.)

By the Austrian GP he was disgusted with the whole mess and left the team, which folded - the Martini & Rossi money would go to Brabham in 1974, the Pederzani brothers retired from competition, and Amon finished the season guesting at Tyrrell.

In another manifestation of the poor luck and judgement for which Amon was legendary, he returned as a constructor in his own right in 1974, his designer being none other than Gordon Fowell.

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)