The story goes that the brothers were testing a F3 car at Monza in the late 1960s; Tino driving and Vittorio overseeing. Tino stops suddenly near Lesmo 2 and, hearing the silence, Vittorio correctly assumes he might have run out of fuel and dispatches their mechanic, Pino. Walking through the wooded infield, Pino duly arrives with a can of fuel and restarts the car. Tino, telling his man to side astride the engine cover and hold the rollover bar, sets off. But, being a Brambilla, he only knows one speed.
Tino returns to the pits and climbs out. When Vittorio enquires of the whereabouts of their mechanic, a wide-eyed Tino slaps his forehead. He'd forgotten all about him.
They found Pino face down in the grass on the outside of Parabolica. Not only did he survive but he continued to be the Brambillas' trusty mechanic.
