The team were moderately successful in the midfield through the late 1980s and early 1990s, giving a succession of Italian drivers their first chance at the top level, including Alessandro Nannini, Pierluigi Martini and Gianni Morbidelli.

There were no changes to the driver line-up from the previous race, however before the race Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo had to publicly announce Ivan Capelli's position within the Ferrari team was " safe " in response to criticism from the Italian Autosprint magazine about Capelli's recent performances. Autosport had also reported on the Thursday before the race that Capelli was " about to be replaced " according to " Italian rumours ", highlighting the fact Gianni Morbidelli had carried out most of Ferrari's testing work at the Imola circuit before the Monaco race.

Morbidelli starting karting in 1980, spending six years until he became the EUR-AM championship winner, before moving to Italian Formula Three.

He is the son of Giancarlo Morbidelli, the founder of Morbidelli motorcycle company which had success in Grand Prix motorcycle racing.

The lead was soon down to 5 seconds, with Modena a superb third from Satoru Nakajima and the two Minardis of Pierluigi Martini and Gianni Morbidelli.

Mansell duly took victory from Prost, Patrese, Alesi, Senna, and Schumacher, while the Minardi drivers ended the race red faced due to a last lap collision between Gianni Morbidelli and Pierluigi Martini.

At the start, Alesi took second from Schumacher while Wendlinger and Verstappen got ahead of Frentzen and Morbidelli.

However, the officials had decided to count the results back 2 laps to lap 14 which meant that Senna won from Mansell, Berger, Piquet, Patrese and Morbidelli.

Gianni Morbidelli ( born January 13, 1968 in Pesaro ) is a racing driver from Italy.

Morbidelli participated in 70 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 11, 1990.

Fabbrica d ' Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian firearms manufacturer.

* Armi Jager, an Italian firearms manufacturer

* M203 grenade launcher, either under-carried or in Stand-alone configurations-interface / mounting system for weapons, as well as some parts ( most notably the receiver ) manufactured in Italy by PMAL ( Polo di Mantenimento delle Armi Leggere, Italian Army arsenal ) in Terni

Armi Jager was an Italian firearms manufacturer owned by Armando Piscetta and located in the town of Loano.

Armi Ratia ( 13 July 1912, Pälkjärvi – 3 October 1979 ) was the founder of the Finnish textile and clothing company Marimekko Oy.

It was won by Armi Kuusela from Finland, who gave up her title though not officially to get married, shortly before her year was complete.

What today stands as one of college baseball's top facilities grew in large part from the labors of Tom D ' Armi, chief assistant coach to longtime Bulldog skipper Paul Gregory.

* 1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer

Harley-Davidson's attempts to establish itself in the light motorcycle market have met with limited success and have largely been abandoned since the 1978 sale of its Italian Aermacchi subsidiary.

* 1971 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer

The ease of transportation and the low cost of the bikes ( they are priced from approximately US $ 200 for a basic model built in China to around US $ 7, 000 for a top of the line Italian model, making them an affordable way for children ( some as young as six ) to learn about motorcycle racing and for adults to race without the high costs and risks associated with full-sized motorcycle racing.

* September 10 – Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer ( d. 2001 )

** Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer

** Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer

* February 16 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer

** Franco Uncini, Italian motorcycle racer

** Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer ( b. 1987 )

Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (; 16 November 1892 – 11 August 1953 ) was an Italian motorcycle and racecar driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante ( The Flying Mantuan ) or Nivola.

In 1978, Harley-Davidson sold its Italian operations to the Castiglioni brothers, founders of the Cagiva motorcycle company, which continued to produce bikes branded " HD Cagiva " until 1980.

Libero Liberati ( 20 September 1926-5 March 1962 ) was an Italian motorcycle racer and the 1957 500cc Grand Prix World Champion.

The highest speed for a MotoGP motorcycle in 125 cc category is by Valentino Rossi in 1996 for Aprilia and the top speed in the history of MotoGP is, set by Dani Pedrosa riding a Repsol Honda RC212V 800 cc during Free Practice 1 at the 2009 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix.

Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle company, one of the seven marques owned by Piaggio, the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.

On 15 August 2010, Aprilia became the most successful motorcycle racing brand in history, surpassing fellow Italian MV Agusta with a record 276th victory.

Automobile and motorcycle manufacturer BMW manufactured the Italian Iso Rivolta Isetta under licence, using an engine from one of their own motorcycles.

* Pierfrancesco Chili ( born 1964 ), Italian motorcycle racer

* Remo Venturi ( born 1927 ), Italian motorcycle racer

This is an Italian racing motorcycle.

In 1964 the two divisions ( aeronautical and motorcycle ) split to become two independent companies as a result of the wide ownership by Fiat in Italian industry.

Unofficial AmigaOne clones were developed by Italian hardware company, Acube.

During the next three years Salieri was primarily concerned with rehearsing and conducting the Italian opera company in Vienna and teaching.

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

The Italian opera buffa company was therefore replaced by a German language Singspiel troupe.

In 1783 the Italian opera company was revived with singers partly chosen and vetted by Salieri during his Italian tour, the new season would open with a slightly re-worked version of Salieri's recent success La scuola de ' gelosi.

The Italian company Finmeccanica, Alenia Difesa licensed the AIM-7E Sparrow technology from the US, and produced its own improved version called Aspide.

In 1957, multi-billionaire Italian publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli announced that the novel would be released by his company.

* CAMP ( company ), an Italian manufacturer of climbing equipment

Around the same time, they met Italian movie producer Dino De Laurentiis, the owner of production and distribution company DEG.

It serves traditional Italian cuisine and wine from his personal vineyard and bottling company.

* 1713 – Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company ( d. 1785 )

* Kappa ( company ), an Italian sportswear company

Fritz was arrested by Italian police at his Medditeranean Island retreat, where he enjoyed the company and companionship of forty or so adolescent Italian boys.

* 1932 – Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer, founded Valentino SpA company

In the 1970s, the Italian Beretta company developed the Beretta Model 93R, a selective-fire machine pistol meant for police and military use.

It was announced in July 2009 that the Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul, together with a consortium of contractors consisting of the Spanish Sacyr Vallehermoso, the Italian Impregilo, and the Panamanian company Grupo Cusa, had been awarded the contract to build the six new locks.

The most recent of these were Commodore Ronald Warwick, a former Master of the Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2, who has traversed the Canal more than 50 times, and Captain Raffaele Minotauro, Master Senior Grade, of the former Italian governmental navigation company known as the " Italian Line ".

The Favorit's appearance was designed by Italian design company Bertone.

Another well-known Italian company is Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S. p. A ..