Ferrari Sport Cars Thread

There is some confusion creeping in here. I thought we had established that the photo is 1953 Pescara but the hand-written message refers to the the 1952 10 hours Messini.

 

Yes, still convinced Bjoern’s pic really shows Pescara 1953...

 

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30 August 1953, ADAC 1000 km Rennen, Nürburgring, Germany

Sixth round of the 1953 World Sportscar Championship

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#1 Vignale Spider 340 MM 0286AM Alberto Ascari/Giuseppe Farina Scuderia Ferrari 1st
#2 Pinin Farina Berlinetta 375 MM 0322AM Mike Hawthorn/Luigi Villoresi Scuderia Ferrari DNS
#3 Vignale Spider 625 TF 0306TF Umberto Maglioli/Piero Carini/Paolo Marzotto Scuderia Ferrari DNS
#50 Pinin Farina Cabriolet 212 Inter 0235EU Riccardo Vignolo/Maurice Gatsonides 9
#68 Pinin Farina Berlinetta 166 MM/53 0346M Kurt Zeller/Walter Zeller DNF
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The book where you will find a colored pic of #3. Yes, no proof it was 0306TF but I will talk about the 4 cylinders cars after Casablanca race at the end of the year.

 

Guys, please don't get confused by the hand written text on the picture. The car in the picture definitely shows the Ferrari with r#30 which was driven by Mancini/Serena in 1953 at Pescara.

At the 1st Dieci Ore Notturna Messinese (to be Swiss precise...) on 23./24. August 1952, Gazzabini/Ferraguti drove a Ferrari 212E with r#12, not r#30.

I can only speculate that Sergio Ferraguti, who signed the picture, drove the very same car at Messina in 1952 as well as at Pescara in 1953. But I have never seen a photo of his 1952 Messina entry. Does anybody out here have such a photo of Ferraguti's Ferrari from 1952?

Best regards

Bjoern

 

Hi Kare,

why "scrap pieces in the back yard"?

Scuderia Marzotto got a new chassis of a 1950 Ferrari 166 MM type on 21st July 1950, stamped "024MB". Confirmed by Ferrari.

On this new chassis (and definitely not on a 212 Export chassis), Scuderia Marzotto built the Uovo at Fontana. In the beginning they surely might have had the idea to build it on one of the 2 newly ordered 212 Export chassis (0084E and 0086E) but as you already mentioned, the delivery of both chassis where much delayed.

What Scuderia Marzotto used for the Uovo coming from 0084E had been the engine and gearbox only.

The "scrap pieces", more or less the front and rear section of the old Touring body of 024MB, where used for the obsolete 212 Export chassis 0084E instead.

Best regards

Bjoern

 

I'm looking forward to December and Casablanca unless something unusual crops up at a race before then. In the meantime can we invent some code for the three 4 cylinder cars so that we know which one we are referring to. I suggest this because it looks like there will never be any agreement on which car had which chassis number when it left the factory.
With regard to #3 at Nurburgring does the colour picture in Hettler/Kunkel book show whether this car had the louvres in the lower front wings (fenders). Thanks.

 

I don't exactly disagree on anything, but will have to go through everything I have before I will eventually be able to form an opinion. That will take many working hours as there are so many photos to analyze and so many notes to check.

If body of 024MB was reused, were there any damaged portions left on the car? Past tense, as the car has been rebuilt many times during past decades, so I presume every damaged bit has now been repaired/replaced.

 

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Here is a pic of 1952 Messina #12 (0074E)...

 

Yes, this is exactly what I had in my mind : car #1, car #2, car #3 with a lot of pictures for each car. I will come back later on the subject...

 

So the #12 car at the 1952 Messina is the Motto berlinetta 212 Export. This exact same car can be seen again at the 1954 Mille Miglia so is NOT the same as the #30 car at 1953 Pescara.

 

Worth also remembering that these cars, like all factory team cars undergoing development were using several serial numbers as a standard practise at the time (mid-1953 to early 1954 or so). In less than year they probably figured out that handling things this way quickly made things too complicated, so they started welding tags instead in cases where renumbering was necessary - and if these tags were taken off in the end we have no clue.

 

We have to work with the Luis Milan and Roberto Bonomi’s Vignale spyders (I will call these cars #2 and #3) to guess what happened before and after Milan and Bonomi’s ownership. The car #1 should be the one crashed by Ascari at Monza.

 

To make things easy to remember (for the older generation) and as we often refer to those drivers most associated with our knowledge of these cars could we perhaps call them "Ascari", "Milan" and "Bonomi"........pleeeeease. Or something along those lines.

 

some additions to the 1000 Km race...
Race programm has also a Scuderia Guastalla entry with Nr. 4 and Bracco and Bonomi; this car did not show up...
and here a 2 pics from my collection of car Nr. 2 at practise...

best wishes,
BjörnS
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Great addition ! Many thanks Björn !

 

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There was another race on 30 August 1953 : Premio Pergusa, Circuito della Cravatta, Sicilia, Italy.

#8 was Placido (Felice refering to the 1953 Ferrari Yearbook or Pasquale) with 166 MM Touring Barchetta 0044M. Result : 5th (1st in class)
#10 was Luigi Bordonaro with 212 Export Touring Barchetta 0158ED. Result : 2nd
#34 (just a guess : the pic above doesn't show #14) was Guido Mancini with 212 Export Fontana spyder 0086E. Result : 8th

Of course, the pic in the 1953 Ferrari Yearbook with Felice Placido and 166 MM Touring Barchetta #172 can't show Pergusa. Must be Coppa Nissena or another italian race in 1953...

Two interesting links :
https://ennadalmiopuntodivista.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/il-giro-della-cravatta/
https://www.siciliamotori.it/2020/07/16/premio-pergusa-e-la-prima-grande-gara-ennese-degli-anni-50/

Library :
https://bookdealer.it/libro/9788898245345/Una cravatta da corsa. Il Premio Pergusa sul Circuito della Cravatta

 

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27-30 August 1953 Stella Alpina, Dolomiti, Italy

The only pic of a Ferrari I found was 166 MM/53 Vignale Spyder 0278M #236 with Enrico Sterzi (result unkown).


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The 1953 Ferrari yearbook lists Franco Cornacchia as winner but the real winner was Salvatore Ammendola with his beautiful Lancia Aurelia B20 GT #242.


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Can't resist showing you this fantastic pic of the second overall : Enrico Anselmi and his Lancia Aurelia B20 GT #246
Happy Italians !!

 

In addition, Piotti had a Ferrari entry but did not start due to some mechanical failure. He shared Carlo (not Guido) Mancini’s car to 8th place, the car being slowed down by troubles with the throttle linkage.

 

A bit more, but no photo sadly :

Cornacchia actually placed 4th with a 3-liter Ferrari. Allazzetta was a late finisher with a 2-liter (surely 0066 M).

Moroni DNF with a 2560cc one (presumably 0070 M ?), as did Sterzi with the car pictured above, after what was reported as a serious crash.

 

It seems book « Stella Alpina » published by Scuderia Trentina Storica in 2007 will be reissued this month. May be there will be more stuff inside...

 

I have this photo marked as Cornacchia #258 finishing 4th. 0258MM or perhaps 0292MM?

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Great pic ! Yes, it’s the ex-0292MM renumbered to 0352MM already in July 1953 according to Marcel.

 

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6 September 1953 1° Gran Premio Supercortemaggiore, Merano, Italy

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#6 Vignale Spyder 250 MM 0330MM Casimiro de Oliveira 13th
#16 Vignale Spyder 225 S 0176ED Roberto Mières 6th
#22 Vignale Spyder 166 MM/53 0278M Franco Cortese DNF
#24 Touring Barchetta 225 S 0104ED Enzo Pinzero DNF
#26 Pinin Farina Berlinetta 250 MM 0270MM Bianca Maria Piazza 10th
#30 Abarth Spyder 166 MM/53 0262M Giulio Musitelli 7th
#32 Vignale Spyder 166 MM/53 0314M Edoardo Lualdi 9th
#50 Ferrari Spyder 166 MM/53 0272M Alberico Cacciari DNF
#64 Vignale Spyder 250 MM 0332MM José A. Nogueira Pinto 3rd
#66 Vignale Spyder 250 MM 0326MM Fernando Mascarenhas DNF
#70 Vignale Spyder 212 Export 0182ED Gilberto Cornacchia alias "Serano" DNF
#72 Touring Spyder 340 MM 0294AM Hans Ruesch DNF

Winner :
#46 Colli Spider Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CM Juan Manuel Fangio, Scuderia Alfa Romeo

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6-13 September 1953 Tour de France, France

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#10 Vignale Spyder 340 MM 0280AM Checcacci / Gentili DNF
#14 Vignale Spyder 250 MM 0282MM Marchand / Fayen 22th
#22 Vignale Coupé 166 MM/53 0300M Herzet / Bianchi 7th
#26 Vignale Coupé 166 MM/53 0308M Dumay / Caussé 6th

Winner :
#32 Morelli Spider Osca MT4 1100 Péron / Bertramnier

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The Firenze plates "FI 66478" on #10 are from a Fiat. Not a Ferrari.

Marcel Massini