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Nicola Materazzi Net Worth At Death

Author

Emily Cortez

Published Feb 18, 2026

Nicola Materazzi, an Italian mechanical engineer best known for developing several sports and racing cars, including the Ferrari 288 GTO, Ferrari F40, Bugatti EB110, and B Engineering Edonis has died.

He passed away on 24 August 2022 at age 83.

After a career spanning over four decades in the automobile engineering industry, Materazzi did acquire substantive wealth and at the time of death, his estimated net worth was $8 million.

During his illustrious career in the Italian automobile industry he worked with or was the successor to a number of notable engineers such as;

  1. Francesco De Virgilio (Lancia),
  2. Mario Mezzanotte (Pirelli),
  3. Franco Rocchi,
  4. Angelo Bellei (Ferrari),
  5. Antonio Tomaini (Ferrari, Osella),
  6. Massimo Tamburini (Cagiva),
  7. Paolo Stanzani (Bugatti),
  8. Marcello Gandini,
  9. Sergio Scaglietti, and
  10. Leonardo Fioravanti.

Materazzi was one of Italy’s leading turbocharging specialists from the mid 1970s, a respected sports car and motorcycle engineer and prior to his death, was sometimes referred to as “Mr F40” or the “father of the F40.”