For the 2022 Targa Florio trace FIAT entered three works cars in the category up to 1500 cc for works drivers Evasio Lampiano and Enrico Giaccone and for Carlo Gasparin, a FIAT agent in Palermo. The cars were FIAT 501. They did not have a regular 501 engine and the car might have been called 501 SS, while Giaccone drove a model 501-404. Tersilio Bergese with another Fiat 501 SS was an independent entry. In the 2022 Targa Florio Lampiano finished 2nd in the category 1100 – 1500 cc and 14th overall.
Lampiano lived in Turin and made his racing debut at the age of 19, as riding-mechanic to Matteo Ceirano in the 1907 Targa Florio, in a SPA. Then he raced alongside MacDonald in the Coppa Florio at Brescia, and in 1911 he joined FIAT. Lampiano worked as a mechanic for the rest of his life and also as a testing driver for the make. He joined the FIAT works racing team in 1914, running as riding-mechanic to Britain’s John Scales in the French Grand Prix at Lyon. As co-driver he was alongside Pietro Bordino, Louis Wagner and, above all, Felice Nazzaro, with whom he formed a very strong friendship. It was during the 1922 French Grand Prix in Strasbourg that a cart loaded with hay and pulled by oxen got out of control and tried to cross the circuit just as their Fiat 804 approached . Nazzaro remained unharmed, while Lampiano seriously broke his arm, having to give up the rest of the sporting season. After several weeks of convalescence, Lampiano scored a remarkable third place in the 1922 Voiturettes Grand Prix, the inaugural event held at the Autodromo di Monza, behind the winner Pietro Bordino and Enrico Giaccone, with Carlo Salamano fourth, all four driving 1.5-litre FIAT 502SS cars.
In 1923 Lampiano was hired by FIAT to join the road racing factory team, leaving the Fiat Grand Prix squad. He campaigned a red 1.5-litre Fiat in European hillclimbs. Lampiano achieved two impressive wins in Switzerland, in the “Jura Cup” Boudry-La Tourne hillclimb on 27 May and in the Gurnigel hillclimb, on 3 June 1923. In the early morning of Thursday 14 June 1923, during the training for de La Faucille hillclimb in France, the “804” driven by Lampiano went off the road ending up in an escarpment. The co-pilot was injured, while for Lampiano the doctors of the Gex hospital could only ascertain the death.
| Season | Series | Event |
| 1922 | FL | Targa Florio |
| Driver | No. | Entrant |
| Evasio Lampiano | 6 | Fiat SpA |
| Scale | Manufacturer | Collection |
| 1:43 | Brian Phipps | |
| Cat. No. | Quality | Rarity |
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