Image Unavailable, Please Login 19-23 November 1954, Carrera Panamericana “Mexico” Sixth round of the 1954 World Sportscar Championship Image Unavailable, Please Login #1 375 Plus Pinin Farina Spyder 0396AM Jack McAfee/Ford Robinson (+) (John Edgar's entry) DNF (crash, fatal accident) #2 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0428MD Alfonso de Portago (Scuderia Espana's entry) DNF (oil pipe) #3 500 Mondial Scaglietti Spyder 0464MD Porfirio Rubirosa/Ernie McAfee (Dominicana's entry) DSQ (over time) #4 375 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta 0358AM Roberto Bonomi/Carlos Peyloubet (Erwin Goldschmidt's entry) DSQ (over time) #14 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0470MD Giovanni Bracco/Riccardo Livocchi (Hotel del Prado's entry) DSQ (over time) #19 375 Plus Pinin Farina Spyder 0392AM Umberto Maglioli (Erwin Goldschmidt's entry) 1st #20 375 MM Vignale Spyder 0286AM Phil Hill/Richie Ginther (Allen Guiberson's entry) 2nd #22 250 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0442M Franco Cornacchia/Enrico Peruchini (Hotel Prado Americas's entry) 5th #24 375 MM Pinin Farina Spyder 0376AM(0382AM) Luigi Chinetti/John Shakespeare (John Shakespeare's entry) 6th Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
The website www.racingsportscars.com lists also an Irish / Luigi Chinetti entry which DNA: Carrera Panamericana 1954 - Entry List - Racing Sports Cars
Image Unavailable, Please Login At the end of the Carrera Panamericana on 23 November 1954, Ferrari won its second World Sportscar Championship title after 1953. 1954 World Sportscar Championship results 1st Ferrari 32 pts (38) 2nd Lancia 20 pts 3rd Jaguar 10 pts 4th O.S.C.A. 8 pts 5th Maserati 7 pts 6th Porsche 5 pts 7th Cunningham 4 pts Aston Martin 4 pts Austin-Healey 4 pts 10th HWM 3 pts 11th Kieft 1 pt Gordini 1 pt In parentheses : points retained (four best results)
Image Unavailable, Please Login November 27, 1954 was a Saturday, but here is an interesting find : a Pinin Farina calendar. I'll let you guess which car it is... (easy! )
You have the wrong year........and wrong day. 27 November 1953 it was and "Venerdi" is Friday. Not 1954. And not Saturday. The car as such is 0356 M. Suffix is not "MM", per build sheets. A 166/MM/53 with a 3-liter engine. Below is a better quality pic, which I have also reproduced in my book about 0356 M. Marcel Massini Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not sure if this barchetta entry is accurate but it does make for a funny read... 1956 Salita al Monte Erice Antonio Canova #18 .. disq for punching Phil Hill
The caption under the pic on barchetta.cc doesn’t mention a disqualification at the Monte Erice hillclimb but a suspension of several months against Canova for unsportsmanlike conduct with Phil Hill during the 5 Hours of Messina 1956...
Just to set the time fame correctly: the 1956 Monte Erice hillclimb was one week before the 5 Hours of Messina. In 1956 Hill was driving in the main European races for the Scuderia Ferrari; very unlikely he would have participated in a minor local hillclimb.
Photo is from Monte Erice and caption states that Canova received a penalty of 6 months in Messina (a week later).
The next race I have for Antonio Canova after the 1956 5 Hours of Messina is the Giro Automobilistico di Sicilia on 14.04.1957. It seems he was lucky that most of the 6 months race ban was during the winter time when there was hardly any racing in Italy.
All very interesting but we are running ahead of ourselves. We are following 1954. Great thread let's keep it simple, please.
Not a lot going on anymore this late in the year in Europe, but still some races in the USA: on November 27th 1954 there were the 5° Running Torrey Pines Road Races. And of course in the southern hemisphere spring had arrived: Cem Milhas do IV Centenário (28.11.1954 at Interlagos São Paulo) and soon in December the first running of the Bahamas Speed Week.
28 November 1954, 100 Milhas do IV Centenário, Interlagos, Brasil Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Categoria acima de 1.500 c.c. #12 166 Export Vignale Spyder 0072E Ângelo Juliano 4th Ferrari 2.000 c.c. #14 250 MM Vignale Spyder 0288MM Godofredo Viana Filho 2nd Ferrari 3.000 c.c. #18 212 S Joaquim da Silva Junior 5th Ferrari 2.300 c.c. No pic #46 166 MM/53 with 3 liters engine 0290M Vignale Spyder Celso Lara Barberis 1st Ferrari 3.000 c.c. #2 Chico Landi DNS (engine problem) Ferrari 2.340 c.c. Arnaldo Borghi’s car Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Ernie McAfee's workshop with 0050M, 0460AM and 020I. Many sources give 1955 for these pics but the Siata on the trailer in the background has #46E on the flanks, like McAfee'entry at Torrey Pines Road Races on 27-28 November 1954. Who knows ?
On 07.12.1954 the "5° Rallye d'Hiver des Lions", for this occasion renamed to "Rallye Panarmoricaine" as homage to the "Carrera Panamericana "Mexico"": #12 0310 MM Pierre Noblet 1st Image Unavailable, Please Login
