Riccardo Moscatelli was an Italian

Italian people

The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...

 race car driver. His career began in 1988 when he took up rallying

Rallying

Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...

. Then for the next four years he raced in Italian sports prototype

Sports prototype

A sports prototype, also referred to as simply a prototype, is a form of racing car that is used as a top category in sports car racing. These purpose-built racing cars differ from street-legal and production-based racing cars that also compete in sports car racing.Prototype racing cars have...

s. In 1993 he raced in Italian Formula Ford and finished 2nd. He then left racing for two years and returned in 1996 in Italian Formula 3. The year after he shared Formula 3 championships in Germany

Germany

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 and Italy

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. He finished in the Italian championship a very low position of 22nd with the Olympia team. He then raced in the 1998 Nissan World Series. He then made a big step into Italian F3000 in 1999 with the Prema Powerteam

Prema Powerteam

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. His father, Frank Moscatelli, is a professor of physics

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 at Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

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His career however was cut short in the September of that year when he died in a mountain bike

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accident.