Gino Munaron

Gino Munaron

Nation:	Italy
Automobile world championship
First start:	1960 Argentine Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1960  Gino Munaron - Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 4th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Virginio "Gino" Munaron (born April 2, 1928 in Turin , † November 22, 2009 in Valenza ) was an Italian racing driver .

Career

Munaron was one of the best sports car drivers from 1955 to 1965 . In the 1950s he was a works driver for Ferrari , Maserati and OSCA . He won the sports car race in Hyeres for Ferrari in 1955 , finished third in the Pescara race and fourth in Bari . In a Ferrari 250 GT he finished third in the 1957 12-hour race in Reims, driving alone .

Munaron made his debut in the automobile world championship on an aging Maserati 250F at the 1960 Argentine Grand Prix . Eight laps behind the winner Bruce McLaren , Munaron finished 13th in the race. Back in Europe, he drove the Cooper T51 of the Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti with little success in several world championship races .

He continued to drive sports and touring car races until the mid-1960s. Together with Andrea de Adamich, he finished fifth in the 1965 Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race .

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1960	Gino Munaron	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti	Cooper T51	Castellotti 2.5 L4	3	-	-	-	-	-
total				4th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1960
	13					DNF	15th		DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1959	Lino Fayen	Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta	Lino Fayen	Rank 6
1960	Camoradi USA	Maserati Tipo 61 longtail	Giorgio Scarlatti	failure	Electrics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953		Peugeot 203	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
				130
1954		Moretti 750 Grand Sport	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
					DNF
1955	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 750 Monza	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
								DNF
1957		Ferrari 500TRC	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
					8th			10
1958	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 500TR Ferrari 250TR	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			6th		DNF	5
1959	Lino Fayen	Ferrari 250 GT	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						6th
1960	Virgilio Conrero Camoradi Racing	Conrero-Alfa Romeo 1150 Maserati Tipo 61	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
					DNF	6th	DNF
1961	Virgilio Conrero	Lotus Eleven	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
				DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Gino Munaron  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• On the death of Gino Munaron