A circle of friends became a racing team. SCAM stood for Squadra Corse Auto Melegnano — after the small town south-east of Milan where LAB also built its cars.

Who belonged to it

At its centre were Franco Bosio as the driver and Angelo Lavesi, who was mechanic, timekeeper and right-hand man in one. “Ad amici si aggiungono amici” — friends brought friends: named are Giuseppe Confalonieri, Antonio Bonini, Giuseppe Cremonesi, Giancarlo Santarelli, the Raineri brothers and Carlo and Orazio Riponi, “to name only a few”. A 2026 article gives the Raineri brothers’ first names – Giuseppe and Renzo – and adds further names: Luigi Carrà, Guido and Fabio Gandini, and Luigi Righi.

The Riponi brothers were at the same time mechanics at LAB. Passoni’s article names only Carlo and Orazio; the caption adds Giovanni as well. The link went further: some of the team’s cars were built at LAB.

The beginning

Bosio and Lavesi bought their first Formula Monza car from the Scuderia Salvati: an Ambivero, its chassis made from plumber’s tubing. “Con una migliore organizzazione e qualche soldino” — with better organisation and a little money came the first placings in the leading group.

How the team came about is told in a portrait of Bosio: he came from regularity events, saw what the formula could offer and, together with a few friends, got a car onto the track — “nel contempo nasce la SCAM”, the SCAM came into being in the same movement. The group began to take its first results. This account, too, gives no founding year.

The merger

Later Bosio joined the Scuderia Concordia of Milan. The merger of the two teams brought him, as the article puts it, “home”. On 24 September 1971 he put his name on the Formula Monza roll of honour.

The sticker that stayed

SCAM’s badge is still on a car today: on LAB #014, photographed in Melegnano in the summer of 2025.

The Monza years

In the 1970s the team ran Formula 875 cars at the Monza autodrome. Alongside Franco Bosio, the names recalled for wins and front places are Aldo Cavallini, Dario Lampugnani, Carlo and Orazio Riponi, and Delfino Pizzocchera.

There was a social side as well: Cristiano Minellono, lyricist of several winning songs at the Sanremo Festival, drove himself, and Marina Occhiena of the group Ricchi e Poveri was the team’s president.

The team today

SCAM still exists. With friendly drivers – Domenico Parrotta, Sebastiano Sibani and Roberto Vanni – it competes in BOSS GP, an international series for former Formula 1 cars, running a Lola-Alfa Romeo 3000 in the Superlight class. The team races at the Red Bull Ring, Hockenheim, Imola and Mugello, as well as at the Minardi Day in Imola and the Gran Premio Storico d’Italia.

The team calls itself «la lumaca», the snail.

What is still missing

SCAM’s founding year is still not documented; the 2026 articles give no date either. The photographs are marked 1975. Anyone who knows more is welcome to get in touch.