Targa Abruzzi 1934

Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Pescara

The VII Targa Abruzzi , also known as the 24-hour race of Pescara 1934 , was a sports car race and took place on August 13, 1934.

The race

In 1934 the organizers and officials of the Targa Abruzzi decided to change the distance of the race. This year, a 24-hour race based on comparable racing events in Le Mans and Spa-Francorchamps took place at the Circuito di Pescara . The attempt to establish a permanent event like in France and Belgium failed, however. Only one more time, in 1935 , was a 24-hour race in Pescara.

The circuit and road races in Italy in the 1930s were, with a few exceptions, mainly contested by Italian racing teams and drivers. The conversion of the race in Pescara to the long 24-hour distance brought non-Italians to the start there for the first time. Among these drivers were the two Britons Earl Howe and Tim Rose-Richards , as well as the French Marcel Mongin and Raymond Sommer . They all had great experience in 24-hour races and had great successes in this racing format. Howe won Le Mans together with Tim Birkin in 1931 . Rose-Richards finished third at Le Mans in three consecutive years, 1931, 1932 and 1933 , and Mongin was second overall on the Sarthe in 1926 and 1937 . Raymond Sommer came to Italy as a two-time Le Mans winner in 1932 he won with Luigi Chinetti and in 1933 as a partner of Tazio Nuvolari ; with the Italian he also started at Tara, but retired.

While Mongin, who shared the cockpit of an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza with his countrywoman Hélene Delange, retired , Howe and Rose-Richards took seventh place overall. In the overall standings, Scuderia Ferrari celebrated a triple victory.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1		24	Scuderia Ferrari	Franco Cortese Francesco Severi	Alfa Romeo 6C 2300A
2		27	Scuderia Ferrari	Mario Tadini Nando Barbieri	Alfa Romeo 6C 2300A
3		23	Scuderia Ferrari	Archimede Rosa Gianfranco Comotti	Alfa Romeo 6C 2300A
4th				L. Gabini Zappacorta	Alfa Romeo 6C 1750
5				Giovanni Lurani Carlo Castelbarco	Bugatti
6th	IC	8th		Earl Howe Tim Rose-Richards	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300
7th	IC	9		Nicola Borelli V. Lo Prete	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300
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Failed
28		2	Scuderia Ferrari	Guy Moll Pietro Ghersi	Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza
29		4th		Tazio Nuvolari Raymond Summer	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300
30th		11	Scuderia Ferrari	Guglielmo Carraroli Berrone Ippolito	Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza
31		26th	Scuderia Ferrari	L. Catalani A. Pollini	Alfa Romeo 6C 2300A
32		3	Scuderia Subalpina	Piero Dusio Gino Rovere	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza
33		5		Hélene Delange Marcel Mongin	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza
34		6th		Goffredo Zehender José de Villapadierna	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza
35		1			Alfa Romeo 8C 2300
36		10			Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 LM
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Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
45				Hans Ruesch Ulrich Maag	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300

Class winner

No class winners are known for this race.

Racing data

• Registered: 45
• Started: 44
• Rated: 37
• Racing classes: unknown
• Spectator: unknown
• Weather on race day: unknown
• Route length: 25,800 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 24: 00: 00,000 hours
• Overall laps of the winning team: unknown
• Total distance of the winning team: 2482.082 km
• Winner's average: 103.420 km / h
• Fastest training time: unknown
• Fastest race lap: unknown
• Racing series: did not belong to any racing series

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• Results and data