Racing with Supercar & Co.

Luxury cars for the very rich. Race motorcycles - advanced technological machines that challenge the boundaries of physics. Hi-tech bicycles making the most of the extraordinary power of the human body. Each of these objects, made in small numbers are extreme performers, they are made with great precision in great detail and have components of great technological value - these are the outcome of specialist research and of mainly skilled workmanship.

Straightaway we think of engines, electronics and computer technology, but we shouldn’t forget the other components that are needed to make up the whole product, frames, shells, rims and the chassis. It’s to these components that Mr. Pierantozzi started to put his mind to in 1984 and with his expertise in the sector of composite materials (carbon fiber), he personally made some aerodynamic components for Minardi of F2.

Today Umberto Pierantozzi runs a firm, the ATR of Colonnella, in the district of Teramo (Italy), which has about 700 employees, 9 plants, a turnover of 30 million euros in 2002 and is looking to expand further. His customers are for instance the automotive manufacturers Minardi, Audi, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, the motorcycle manufacturers Ducati, Aprilia, Guzzi, Benelli, Yamaha, Cagiva, and the high-tech bicycle manufacturer Colnago Ferrari.

Among these treasures ATR helps to make: the Ferrari 456 GT, F50 and Enzo, the Lamborghini . . . . .