Sparco

Sparco S.p.A.
Type	Private
Industry	Automotive
Founded	1977; 44 years ago
Founders	Enrico Glorioso; Antonio Parisi
Headquarters	Volpiano, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Products	Motorsport safety equipment and car accessories

Sparco steering wheel

Sparco S.p.A. is an Italian auto part and accessory company headquartered in Volpiano near Turin that specializes in producing items such as seats, steering wheels, harnesses, racewear and helmets. Sparco branded alloy wheels are produced under licence by OZ Group. They also sponsor many types of auto races including rallies, single-seaters.

History[]

In 1977, two young drivers had a dream of creating a safer, more stylish world of motorsports and founded Sparco. More than 30 years later and that dream is a consolidated reality. This is Sparco history In 1977. Young people dream. It is hard to realize them. Sparco is born in this way, from a dream of two young Torino racing drivers that decided to increase safety in racing world. That was a period of big crashes and FIA decided to reduce injuries. Sparco starts to presents its products and revolutionized safety concept. In 1978 for the very first time Sparco produces a fire proof racing suit, able to fight against fire for 11 seconds, as per FIA 8856-2000 requests. This is only the starting point: from now onward Sparco improves each year, producing better and better fire proof suits. In 1978 Sparco produces also first racing seat. Other products are already well known: fire proof suits, racing shoes, gloves and crash helmets are used in every racing events. It is now the moment for racing seat production: in a few months seats become a Sparco specialties and a reference point for racing world.