Gianni Balzarini

Gianni Balzarini is a former Italian racing car driver .

Career

Balzarini was a well-known Italian sports car racing driver in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1959 he won the Mille Miglia together with Carlo-Maria Abate . After the end of this legendary car race in 1957 , the event was held in 1958, 1959 and 1961 as a kind of rally without any sporting value. Of the 1,453 kilometers, only 188 kilometers were driven at racing speed and only on uphill sections.

Balzarini won numerous mountain races in Italy and was in 1964 for Porsche -Werksmannschaft in the Targa Florio . With Herbert Linge as a teammate, he finished second in the overall standings behind Colin Davis and Antonio Pucci in the Porsche 904 GTS . At the Tour de France for automobiles in 1959 , he and Abate finished fifth in the overall ranking of sports cars in a Ferrari 250GT .

In 1962 he worked as a factory driver for Abarth also in the 24-hour race at Le Mans at the start, the race had to a technical defect but to retire.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1962	Abarth Corse & Cie	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	Franz Albert	failure	Gearbox damage

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1960	Scuderia Serenissima	Ferrari 250 GT	Carlo-Maria Abate	failure	Oil loss

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
1953		Osca MT4	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
				DNF
1955		Moretti 750S	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
					145
1956		Marino	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
					DNF
1958		Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					9
1960	Scuderia Serenissima	Ferrari 250 GT	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
				DNF
1961	Scuderia Serenissima	Fiat-Abarth 1000S	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
				DNF
1962	Abarth	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
										DNF							DNF
1963	Abarth	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
									DNF						17th
1964	Porsche	Porsche 904	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
					2

literature

• Pino Fondi: Targa Florio - 20th Century Epic. Giorgio Nada Editore Vimodrone 2006, ISBN 88-7911-270-8 .