Carlo-Maria Abate

The Ferrari 250TRI from Abate / Maglioli at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1963

Carlo-Maria Abate (born July 10, 1932 in Turin - † April 29, 2019 ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

Abate was considered one of the best GT drivers of his era, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Especially in the Ferrari 250 GTO he was able to prove his driving skills again and again. There are different spellings for his middle name. He is also referred to as Carlo Mario Abate in several publications. Allegedly he preferred this spelling himself.

Abate was a works driver at Ferrari and Porsche , but drove most of his sports car races for the Scuderia Serenissima des Conte Giovanni Volpi . In 1961 he won the 500 km race on the Nürburgring for this racing team in a Fiat Abarth 1000 . Abate also tried his hand at Formula 1 , but he never took part in a world championship run. In 1962 he finished fourth in the Gran Premio di Napoli, which was not part of the world championship, in a Porsche. Further successes were third places at the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo in 1962 and at the Gran Premio di Siracusa in 1963. In the same year he achieved a fifth place at the Gran Premio Città di Imola on a Cooper from Scuderia Centro Sud .

He celebrated his greatest successes in the sports car. He competed three times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , but there were no countable placements. In 1961 , a gearbox failure stopped the fast Abate / Trintignant duo in a Ferrari 250 GT SWB at halftime of the race. In 1962 Abate met the same fate , this time with Colin Davis as co-driver. A year later, an accident also ended Abate's race prematurely.

In the races for the World Sports Car Championship , however, Abate was able to celebrate some successes for Ferrari in the GT class. His greatest triumph was winning the 1963 Targa Florio with Joakim Bonnier as a team-mate for Porsche.

When the attempt to get a usable racing car for the 1963 Italian Grand Prix failed, Abate retired from racing at the end of the season.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1961	Scuderia Serenissima	Ferrari 250 GT SWB	Maurice Trintignant	failure	Gearbox damage
1962	Scuderia SSS Repubblica di Venezia	Ferrari 250 GT SWB breadvan	Colin Davis	failure	Gearbox damage
1963	SPA Ferrari SEFAC	Ferrari 250 GTO	Fernand Tavano	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1960	Scuderia Serenissima	Ferrari 250 GT California	Giorgio Scarlatti	Fabrizio Serena di Lapigio	Rank 8 and class win
1962	Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	Maserati Tipo 64	Nino Vaccarella		failure	Shift linkage
1963	Scuderia Centro Sud	Ferrari 250 GTO	Juan Manuel Bordeu		Rank 5
1964	SEFAC Ferrari	Ferrari 250 GTO / 64	Jean Guichet		disqualified

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1957		Alfa Romeo Giulietta SVZ	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
					33
1958		Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					9
1960	Scuderia Serenissima	Ferrari 250 GT	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
			DNF	8th		8th
1961	Scuderia Serenissima	Fiat-Abarth 1000	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
				DNF	4th	DNF	DNF
1962	Abarth Scuderia Serenissima	Fiat-Abarth 1000 Maserati Tipo 64 Ferrari 250TR Ferrari 250 GT SWB Breadvan Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
				DNF	DNF		DNF		DNF	DNF	1						DNF
1963	Scuderia Centro Sud Porsche Scuderia Serenissima Scuderia Ferrari Carlo-Maria Abate	Ferrari 250 GTO Porsche 718 GTR Ferrari 250TRI	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
					5	1			3			DNF			3	11			5				2
1964	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
				DNF

Web links

Commons : Carlo-Maria Abate  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Carlo-Maria Abate at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nürburgring 500 Kilometres 1961 - Racing Sports Cars. Retrieved August 21, 2017 .