24 Heures de Francorchamps (24 Hours of Spa) 23-24.07.1953 Scuderia Ferrari team cars: #6 0320 AM (375 MM Berlinetta PF), Luigi Villoresi & Alberto Ascari,DNF #8 0322 AM (375 MM Berlinetta PF), Giuseppe Farina & Mike Hawthorn, 1st A.O. #9 0318 AM (375 MM Berlinetta PF), Umberto Maglioli & Piero Carini, DNF T-car: 0286 AM (375 MM Spyder PF) practiced by all Scuderia Ferrari drivers. Ecurie Francorchamps: #2 0074 E (212 Export), Charles de Tornaco & Onore Wagner, DNF Again, please feel free to correct me as chassis and race numbers are easily mixed up.
You are quite right to correct me on the dates (list posted one day prematurely !!!) Image Unavailable, Please Login
Now you have posted almost all I wanted to post tomorrow, let's show the cars and the circuit. Back tomorrow with 10 Hours of Messina...(if someone hasn't posted it before me...) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login An interesting pic was for sale at the Ferrari 75th Anniversary Online Auction of Automobilia Ladenburg : Ferrari #5 during practise... I let you guess which was its race number...
Image Unavailable, Please Login 25-26 july 1953 10 Hours of Messina, Italy, Sicily Image Unavailable, Please Login #1 Pinin Farina Berlinetta 250 MM 0292MM Cornacchia/Bracco 2nd #2 Pinin Farina Berlinetta 250 MM 0256MM Castellotti/Musitelli 1st #5 Vignale Coupe 225 S 0070E Piotti/Moroni 4th #8 Fontana Spyder 212 Export 0086E Mancini G./Bernabei DNF #9 Vignale Spyder 212 Export 0182ED “Serano”/Crepaldi DNF ? #10 Vignale Coupe 225 S 0237EU Enzo Pinzero/Stazzi “Placido” 5th #11 Touring Berlinetta Le Mans 166 MM 00112E Gerini/Pinzero E. 6th #12 Vignale Spyder 166 MM/53 0278M Sterzi/Cortese 8th There were also these two entries (no pics) : #15 Touring Barchetta 166 MM 0034M Donato/ Donato On track during practise but no result known. On this link, https://www.siciliamotori.it/2020/03/25/francesco-donato/ Francesco Donato explains that he ran 10 Hours of Messina twice : 1954 and the following year (1955). Then, we can presume a DNS in 1953... #7 Mancini C. / Ferraguti 212 No time in practise, no result. DNA ? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login May I suggest this excellent book ? Image Unavailable, Please Login
Sorry Andrew but I can’t believe that. I don’t know exactly when 0292MM has been renumbered 0352MM. May be Marcel is trying to say #1 at Messina was already restamped 0352MM ? I doubt...
Remarks / questions on driver names from my side: - Your list shows two entries for Pinzero: #10 and #11. Are these entries for Enzo Pinzero in #10 and Guglielmo Pinzero in #11? - I assume that the Sterzi listed for #12 is Enrico Sterzi - Any chance of the surname of the second Donato? The driver was Francesco Donato.
As far I remember, the second Donato was his brother Guido. Yes, Enrico Sterzi for #12. I will check the Pinzero entries later.
According to my notes 0352MM was renumbered into 0239EU for Echeverria on 1/jul/53. I cannot confirm when exactly 0239EU and 0292MM were reunumbered, but both were in Modena at this time. New certificato seems to have been issued for 0239EU early October, now with 0292MM. Would be interesting to see some entry forms for the "factory work horse" 0292MM to confirm which serial number it was using during summer of 1953.
Entered for the Brynfan Tyddyn Road Races - race 5 on 25.07.1953 but probably DNA: #53, 1995 cc (probably chassis 0054 M), Ed ("Ebby") Lunken
Entered for the Grand Prix de Caen - Sports Cars Handicap on 25.07.1953 but also DNA: #9 René Marchand
Also this tragedy on 25.07.1953: 2° United States Air Force Trophy (organised by AMOC)- race 4 (15 lap scratch race for sports cars over 2000 cc) #5 0280 AM (340 MM Spyder), Bobbie Baird, fatal accident
