Mountain race Parma – Poggio di Berceto

Eduardo Weber , Giulio Ramponi , Carlo Felice Trossi and Enzo Ferrari behind an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 "Monza" from Scuderia Ferrari at the 1933 hill climb.

The Stanguellini team in the 1939 race.

The Parma – Poggio di Berceto hill climb was a hill climb for automobiles that was held 15 times between 1913 and 1955 and is now a regularity race for classic cars .

The race in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna led from the city of Parma in the Po Valley in a south-westerly direction to the town of Berceto, about 50 km away, at over 800 m slm .

For the great Italian factories, the hill climb was of great importance in the period between the world wars. B. Fiat or Alfa Romeo competed with factory teams . The Parma – Poggio di Berceto 1919 went down in history as the first automobile race in which Enzo Ferrari took part as a driver. On a CMN 15/20 HP he took fourth place in the category up to 3000 cm³ displacement and came eleventh overall.

After the Second World War , there were further editions of the race in 1950 and 1955. The 1955 edition resulted in two serious accidents. Before the start of the race, a truck had an accident in Fornovo carrying ten Carabinieri that were supposed to secure the route during the event. Two gendarmes were killed and another four seriously injured. During the race itself, the driver Mario Dalla Favera had a fatal accident in a Ferrari 500 Mondial near Collecchio . These accidents, as well as the accident at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1955 , which happened on the same weekend, led to the cessation of racing activities.

In 1962, under the name XVI Parma-Poggio di Berceto, a run for the European Mountain Championship took place. However, only the approximately 13 km long section between Fornovo and the Passo di Monte Cassio was used. The winner was Ludovico Scarfiotti in a Ferrari . In 1966, the official 17th and final edition of the race took place on the same track.

List of overall winners (1913–1955)

Edition	date	distance	winner	dare	time	Average speed
1!I.	74059435100 ♠28 Sep 1913	53,000 km	Marsiglia!Italy 1861 Vincenzo Marsaglia	Aquila Italiana	43.10.6 min	73.651 km / h
2!II	74088924025 ♠June 25, 1914	53,000 km	Ceirano!Italy 1861 Ernesto Ceirano	SCAT	40.36.8 min	78.299 km / h
3!III	74292462725 ♠0Oct. 5, 1919	53,000 km	Ascari!Italy 1861 Antonio Ascari	Fiat S 57 / 14B	38.11.2 min	83.275 km / h
4!IV	74318602750 ♠May 30, 1920	53,000 km	Campari!Italy 1861 Giuseppe Campari	Alfa Romeo 40-60 HP	38.25.4 min	82.762 km / h
5!V	74355254600 ♠0May 8, 1921	50,900 km	Niccolini!Italy 1861 Carlo Niccolini	Fiat S 57-14	35.39.0 min	85.666 km / h
6!VII	74394511150 ♠May 14, 1922	50.825 km	Conelli!Italy 1861 Francesco Conelli	Ballot Indy 4.5-L	35.35.4 min	85.684 km / h
7!VIII	74433116525 ♠May 13, 1923	50.825 km	Brilli!Italy 1861 Gastone Brilli-Peri	Fiat S 57-14	35.26.6 min	86.039 km / h
8th!IIX	74471628875 ♠May 11, 1924	50,900 km	Ascari!Italy 1861 Antonio Ascari	Alfa Romeo RL SS	34.18.6 min	89.012 km / h
9!IX	74820844725 ♠May 21, 1933	50.930 km	Brivio!Italy 1861 Antonio Brivio	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 MM	31.37.2 min	96.641 km / h
10!X	74857310525 ♠Apr 29, 1934	50.930 km	Barbieri!Italy 1861 Nando Barbieri	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 "Monza"	08/31, 2 min	98.142 km / h
11!XI	74975173200 ♠May 16, 1937	50.580 km	Tadini!Italy 1861 Mario Tadini	Alfa Romeo 12C-36	25.51.0 min	117.400 km / h
12!XII	75015173950 ♠May 30, 1938	50.580 km	Villoresi!Italy 1861 Emilio Villoresi	Alfa Romeo	26.37.0 min	114.019 km / h
13!XIII	75053035125 ♠May 21, 1939	50.627 km	Calamai!Italy 1861 Giosuè Calamai	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500	31.40.6 min	95.895 km / h
14!XIV	75478066350 ♠May 14, 1950		Bracco!Italy Giovanni Bracco	Ferrari	June 30, 4 min	100.596 km / h
15!XV	75674349100 ♠June 12, 1955	50.5 km	Daetwyler!Switzerland Willy Daetwyler	Ferrari		114.038 km / h

Web links

Commons : Parma – Poggio di Berceto hill climb - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Race results 1913 and 1914 , 1919 to 1923 , 1924 , 1933 and 1934 , 1937 to 1939 , www.kolumbus.fi, accessed on February 2, 2020 (English)
Website of the classic car race Parma – Poggio di Berceto. www.parmapoggiodiberceto.it, accessed February 2, 2020 (Italian).
Results at Racing Sports Cars. www.racingsportscars.com, accessed February 2, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ not championship races 1919. racecarstory.netsons.org, accessed on February 2, 2020 (English).
↑ Marinella Placido: Pasquale Placido. L'automobilismo negli anni '50 . 2017, p. 33 (Italian, books.google.de [accessed February 2, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b Mario Dalla Favera. www.motorsportmemorial.org, accessed on February 2, 2020 (English).

[1] not championship races 1919. racecarstory.netsons.org, accessed on February 2, 2020 (English).

[2] Marinella Placido: Pasquale Placido. L'automobilismo negli anni '50 . 2017, p. 33 (Italian, books.google.de [accessed February 2, 2020]).

[Favera-3] Mario Dalla Favera. www.motorsportmemorial.org, accessed on February 2, 2020 (English).