Pescara 12 hour race in 1953

Route of the Circuito di Pescara

Ferrari 375MM

The 1953 12-hour race in Pescara , also known as 12 Ore di Pescara , was a sports car race that took place on August 15 of this year at the Circuito di Pescara . The race was not part of any racing series.

The race

The Pescara 12-hour race was based on a racing event that was held for the first time in 1924 - the Coppa Acerbo . The event was named after Tito Acerbo, brother of the fascist politician Giacomo Acerbo. After the defeat in World War II and the resulting decline of fascism, the race was renamed Circuito di Pescara , later the Pescara Grand Prix .

The first race took place on July 13, 1924 as a formula-free race . The then largely unknown Enzo Ferrari won the race in the Alfa Romeo RL . In 1952 and 1953 the race for sports cars was advertised over a distance of 12 hours.

In 1952 there was a triple victory for Ferrari. Giovanni Bracco and Paolo Marzotto ( Ferrari 250S ) won ahead of their brand colleagues Clemente Biondetti / Franco Cortese and Luigi Piotti / Vittorugo Mallucci (both teams in a Ferrari 225S ). The Ferrari cars were privately registered in 1952, a circumstance that changed in 1953. The Scuderia took part in the race at the factory and celebrated a superior overall victory with Mike Hawthorn and Umberto Maglioli at the wheel of a Ferrari 375MM .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S + 2.0	28	Scuderia Ferrari	Mike Hawthorn Umberto Maglioli	Ferrari 375 MM Coupe	60
2	S 2.0		Officine Alfieri Maserati	Guido Mancini Silvio Dal Cin	Maserati A6GCS	54
3	S 2.0	60	Enrico Sterzi	Enrico Sterzi Franco Cortese	Ferrari 166MM / 53	53
4th	S 1.1	66	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Maria Teresa de Filippis Giuseppe Sgorbati	Osca MT4 1100	53
5	GT			Vittorio Colocci Gioacchino Vari	Lancia Aurelia B20	51
6th	GT			Alessandro Zafferri Mario Della Favera	Alfa Romeo 1900TI	51
7th	S + 2.0		Mario Piazza	Bianca-Maria Piazza Mario Piazza	Ferrari 250MM	49
8th	S + 2.0			Pietro Laureati Sandro Sebasti	Alfa Romeo 1900TI	49
9	S + 2.0			Piero Soldaini Balducci	Alfa Romeo 1900TI	47
10	S 1.1			Aldo Terigi Luciano Pagliai	Ermini	47
11	GT			Guido Perrella Giuseppe Ruggero	Lancia Aurelia	46
12	S 1.1			A. Carancini Fernando Testa	Fiat	45
13	S 1.1			Fileno D'Angelo Mario D'Angelo	Stanguellini S1100	43
14th			XXX	XXX
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21st			XXX	XXX
22nd			XXX	XXX
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24	S 1.1		Giovan Battista Testa	Mario Giorgetti Saverio Fortuna	Stanguellini S1100
25th	S + 2.0		Tom Meyer	Tom Meyer Tony Gaze	Aston Martin DB3
Failed
26th	S + 2.0	4th	Peter Whitehead	Peter Whitehead Duncan Hamilton	Jaguar XK120C
27	S + 2.0	6th	Scuderia Ferrari	Luigi Villoresi Paolo Marzotto	Ferrari 375MM
28	S + 2.0	26th	Casimiro D 'Oliveira	Casimiro D 'Oliveira Bolognini	Ferrari 250MM
29	S + 2.0	32	Bruno Sterzi	Franco Cornacchia Antonio Stagnoli	Ferrari 250MM
30th	S + 2.0		Luigi Chinetti	Giovanni Bracco Roberto Bonomi	Ferrari 340 Mexico
31	S 1.1			Sergio Sighinolfi Cerrato	Ermini
32	GT			Piero Carini A. Graziano	Alfa Romeo
33	GT			Piero Bernabei Inico Bernabei	Alfa Romeo
34	GT			Massimo Leto di Priolo Luigi Bosisio	Fiat 8V
35	GT			Giorgio Scarlatti Noceti	Alfa Romeo
36	GT			Adriano Ferranti Giancarlo Bornigia	Lancia Aurelia
37	GT			Michele Salviati Gay Testa	Ferrari
38	GT			Franco Bertani Paolo Milanese	Alfa Romeo
39	S 2.0			Ovidio Capelli O. Mosters	Fiat 8V
40	GT			Germano Nataloni Franco Ribaldi	Lancia Aurelia
41	S + 2.0			Luigi Piotti Clemente Biondetti	Ferrari
42	S 2.0			Pietro Barbetti Antonio Forini	Siata 208CS Balbo
43	S 2.0			Salvatore Casella Mario Ricci	Gordini
44	S 2.0			Yvonne Simon Giarelli	Ferrari
45	S 2.0			Edoardo Lualdi Enzo Pinzero	Ferrari
46	S 2.0		Officine Alfieri Maserati	Luigi Musso Guerino Bertocchi	Maserati A6GCS
47	S + 2.0			Fernando Mancini Sergio Ferraguti	Ferrari
48	S + 2.0			Guido Mancini Fabrizio Serena di Lapigio	Ferrari
49	GT			Mario Sannino Giuseppe Ruggero	Alfa Romeo
50	S + 2.0	24	Franco Bordoni-Bisleri	Franco Bordoni-Bisleri Bruno Venezian	Gordini T15S 2.3

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S + 2.0	Mike Hawthorn	Umberto Maglioli	Ferrari 375MM Coupe	Overall victory
S 2.0	Guido Mancini	S. Dal Cin	Maserati A6GCS	Rank 2
S 1.1	Maria Teresa de Filippis	Giuseppe Sgorbati	Osca MT4 1100	Rank 4
GT	Vittorio Colocci	Gioacchino Vari	Lancia Aurelia B20	Rank 5

Racing data

• Registered: 50
• Started: 50
• Valued: 25
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Weather on race day: unknown
• Route length: 25.838 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 12: 00: 00,000 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 60
• Total distance of the winning team: 1542.614 km
• Winner's average: 128.551 km / h
• Pole position: unknown
• Fastest race lap: Umberto Maglioli - Ferrari 375MM Coupé (# 28) - 10: 35,800 - 144.385 km / h
• Racing series: did not belong to any racing series

Web links

• Race results

Individual evidence

1. ^ 12-hour race in Pescara 1952