I have Giulio Cabianca in this race, giro di Calabria, but I don't know which model. Maybe not a Ferrari??? and.
Cabianca raced an Osca. Pucci’s Scaglietti spyder was not 0528MD but a large side vent Scaglietti spyder which could be 0534MD or another car restamped 0534MD…
Do we agree that Pucci raced 0534MD, a large side vent prototype with side vent located lower than on later cars built using a wooden buck? The small lip, or low fariging around wind screen is also unusual on this particular car.
Yes, a prototype… … or a Scaglietti spyder in 056xMD range restamped 0534MD, who knows ? Anyway your theory of this car being a prototype for the large side vents series is just brillant !
It's pretty straight forward as we know that the wooden buck was already in use by May - Ascari's fatal 0562M crashed on 26.5.55 already had a standard production side vent. Timing for serial number 0534MD having been built only weeks earlier is just perfect.
Image Unavailable, Please Login 27 August 1955, Daily Herald International Trophy, Oulton Park, United Kingdom Image Unavailable, Please Login #26 500 Mondial Pinin Farina Spyder (Scaglietti nose) 0406MD Franco Cortese DNF #28 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0496M Mike Hawthorn 2nd Scuderia Ferrari entry (?) #30 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0554M Masten Gregory 4th #32 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0440MD Jean Lucas DNF #36 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0470MD Gunnar Carlsson DNF #40 735 Monza Pinin Farina Spyder 0444MD Herbert Mackay-Fraser DNF #44 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0520M Louis Rosier DNF #50 121 LM Scaglietti Spyder 0484LM Carroll Shelby DNF Tony Parravano entry In entry list : #42 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0572M José Arroyo Nogueira Pinto DNA Image Unavailable, Please Login Winner : Image Unavailable, Please Login #52 Aston Martin DB3S Reg Parnell David Brown Ltd.
Racing Sport Cars website gives these infos : #26 0406MD Franco Cortese DNF on lap 10 (clutch) #32 0440MD Jean Lucas DNF on lap 45 (spun, stalled) #36 0470MD Gunnar Carlsson DNF on lap 42 (oil pump) #40 0444MD Herbert Mackay-Fraser DNF on lap 17 (gearbox) #44 0520M Louis Rosier DNF on lap 43 (brakes) #50 0484LM Carroll Shelby DNF on lap 32 (driver injury) The race was 80 laps long.
I raced there, in much more humble machinery, 80 laps of Oulton is a lot, plenty of time and strain for things to fail.
Image Unavailable, Please Login 3 September 1955, Daily Telegraph International Meeting, Aintree, United Kingdom Image Unavailable, Please Login #73 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0440MD Harry Schell 4th Scuderia Los Amigos 74 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0496M Alfonso de Portago DNF 75 735 Monza Pinin Farina Spyder 0444MD Herbert Mackay Fraser DNF Winner : Image Unavailable, Please Login #77 Jaguar D-type Ninian Sanderson Ecurie Ecosse
4 September 1955, Kilomètre lancé d'Eaumorte, Switzerland Image Unavailable, Please Login #49 212 Export Touring Barchetta 0158ED Edouard Margairaz 1st in class I don't know if it was 1955 or 1956 though.
That's what I was afraid of. I have a lot of photos of races in Switzerland, but everything is mixed up, the races and the years (1955 or 1956). Thanks for the correction anyway !
AFAIK Edouard Margairaz had race number 49 at the 1955 Kilomètre lancée d'Eaux-Mortes and race number 48 at the 1956 Course de Côte de Verbois.
My notes also list the following entries: #15 0446 MD (0556 MD) André Canonica (average 146.103 kph) #?? 0486 M Jacques Jonneret (average 140.1 kph) but this is highly questionable, especially Jonneret is probably the 1956 event.
1955 Ferrari Yearbook gives André Canonica 1st (overall apparently). Also lists Jacques Jonneret 2nd (overall ?). About Jonneret, the 1955 Ferrari Yearbook was probably printed before the 1956 event...
