Arturo Magni (Usmate Velate, 24 September 1925 - Samarate, 2 December 2015)[1] was an Italian engineer racing team manager and entrepreneur.
[3] The company had decided to participate in the 500 cc World Championship and had commissioned Pietro Remor to build a new four-cylinder GP engine.
[3] This engine powered Gilera to six world titles in the 500 class with the riders Umberto Masetti, Libero Liberati and Geoff Duke.
[2] He had employed riders such as Giacomo Agostini, John Surtees, Carlo Ubbiali, Phil Read, Mike Hailwood, Cecil Sandford and Tarquinio Provini.
The company, based in a small but fully equipped workshop,[4] was located at Samarate, 20 miles from the MV factory.
The Sfida 1000 model, introduced in 1989, used a Moto Guzzi engine in a machine styled to reflect the MV racers of the 1960s.