Ferrari Sport Cars Thread

5 November 1955, GP Macau

Image Unavailable, Please Login #14 500 Mondial Scaglietti Spyder 0528MD Mario Lopez da Costa DNF (engine)

Winner :
#4 Austin-Healey 100 Robert Ritchie

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Image Unavailable, Please Login

6 November 1955, Gran Premio Internacional de Venezuela, Caracas, Circuito Los Proceres

Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login

#2 857 S Scaglietti Spyder Eugenio Castellotti 0570M DNF Scuderia Ferrari entry
#4 121 LM Scaglietti Spyder 0484LM Umberto Maglioli DNF Scuderia Ferrari entry
#6 121 LM Scaglietti Spyder 0558LM Phil Hill DNF John Von Neumann entry
#8 500 Mondial Scaglietti Spyder 0556(stamped 0446)MD Harry Schell + Eugenio Castellotti 5th Scuderia Ferrari entry
#10 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0496M Alfonso de Portago 2nd
#12 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0500M Piero Carini 4th Scuderia San Ambroeus entry
#14 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0522M Chico Landi DNF Scuderia Guastalla entry
#16 735 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0556MD(ex 0446MD) Emmanuel de Graffenried 3rd
#42 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder Ferrari-Mercedes 0304TF (?) Julio Pola DNF Equipo Madunina entry
#44 500 Mondial Pinin Farina Spyder 0418MD Ramón Lopez 10th Equipo Madunina entry
#46 500 Mondial Scaglietti Spyder 0454MD Bob Said + Eduardo Muños DNF
#50 500 Mondial Scaglietti Spyder Prototype 0306TF (?) Gilberto Cornacchia + Ettore Chimeri DNF Scuderia Guastalla entry

Image Unavailable, Please Login

Image Unavailable, Please Login

Image Unavailable, Please Login

Image Unavailable, Please Login

Winner :
Image Unavailable, Please Login
#18 Maserati 300S Juan Manuel Fangio Officine Alfieri Maserati entry



Image Unavailable, Please Login
A thought for the late Branko, gone too soon…

 

Photo by Phil Hill
Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Beautiful !!!

 

I think the photo with 0556 (0446)/MD and 0454MD in the pop up showroom is my favorite picture of any 500 Mondial. So many of these just transport you back in time…

 

There is a black and white photo of the inside of that showroom - which I believe was the Carlos Kaufman showroom in Caracas - of those three cars by Eugenio Opitz, copyright owned by Marcel Massini. So I will let Marcel post it if he so chooses!

 

Dear Dinoaurs,

Attached is the Gestione Sportive report to Enzo regarding this event. I do find it interesting that the fastest lap by Fangio in his 3 liter Maserati was only 2 seconds quicker than Castellotti in his 2 liter Ferrari (my old car).

Best regards,

Robert

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Results

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Don't ask the factory to explain this one. Looks to me like Castellotti in #8 500 Mondial S2 Serial 0556(stamped 0446)/MD in front of DeGtaffenried #16 735 Sport Serial 0446(restamped 0556)/MD.


Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

One more piece of trivia related to my old car and that is the report to Enzo on car specifics at the race.

Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Dear Admiral: "Important is what comes out of the back" (Helmut Kohl). Fangio won and thats important. Perhaps his car was not running so well as it should on that day. Its worth to note, that it was a private entry of Fangio by his manager Marcello Giambertone. His contract for the 1956-season with Ferrari was not valid and the old man from Argentina chosed the 300S...
Was not the worst decision...

 

Incredible the company was only a few years old here. Lo slancio è una cosa meravigliosa