A lawyer from Locarno, Count Ottorino Volonterio of Orselina was an enthusiastic Swiss amateur who rarely troubled the score sheets. With a pace that varied between slow and very slow his career was spent at a leisurely pace.
Doc Benjafield was a bacteriologist and motor racing enthusiast who won Le Mans in 1927 with fellow 'Bentley Boy' S.C.H. 'Sammy' Davis.