Gran Premio di Siracusa

The Gran Premio di Siracusa (German: Grand Prix of Syracuse ) was an automobile sport event that was held a total of 13 times from 1951 to 1967. The races took place in the Sicilian city ​​of Syracuse . They were advertised for Formula 1 cars, but did not count towards the World Automobile Championship .

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1965

The venue was the Circuito di Siracusa , a non-permanent race track in the city of Syracuse, which is almost directly on the Mediterranean coast. In view of the good climatic conditions on the southern Italian island, the Syracuse Grand Prix was, with few exceptions, one of the first European Formula 1 races of the respective season.

The last edition of the Syracuse Grand Prix had two winners. According to the official time measurement, the Ferrari works drivers Ludovico Scarfiotti and Mike Parkes reached the finish at the same time after 1: 40.58.4 hours in 1967. Both were counted as winners; second place was not awarded.

From 1968 the Grand Prix of Syracuse was no longer held; since then there have been no more Formula 1 races in Sicily. The highest class monoposto races were races of the Formula 2 European Championship until 1984 , which were held under the name Gran Premio del Mediterraneo on the Autodromo di Pergusa in a suburb of the island's interior town of Enna . From 1985 to 1998 races of the International Formula 3000 Championship were held there.

Results

Edition	date	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest lap
1	March 11, 1951	Luigi Villoresi ( Ferrari )	Dorino Serafini ( Ferrari )	Rudolf Fischer ( Ferrari )	Giuseppe Farina ( Maserati )	Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari )
2	March 16, 1952	Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari )	Piero Taruffi ( Ferrari )	Giuseppe Farina ( Ferrari )	Luigi Villoresi ( Ferrari )	Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari )
3	March 22, 1953	Emmanuel de Graffenried ( Maserati )	Louis Chiron ( Osca )	Rodney Nuckey ( Cooper )	Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari )	Alberto Ascari ( Ferrari )
4th	April 11, 1954	Giuseppe Farina ( Ferrari )	Maurice Trintignant ( Ferrari )	Sergio Mantovani ( Ferrari )	Onofre Marimón ( Maserati )	Onofre Marimón ( Maserati )
5	October 23, 1955	Tony Brooks ( Connaught )	Luigi Musso ( Maserati )	Luigi Villoresi ( Maserati )	Tony Brooks ( Connaught )	Luigi Musso ( Maserati )
6th	April 5th 1956	Juan Manuel Fangio ( Lancia )	Luigi Musso ( Lancia )	Peter Collins ( Lancia )	Juan Manuel Fangio ( Lancia )	Juan Manuel Fangio ( Lancia )
7th	April 7, 1957	Peter Collins ( Lancia-Ferrari )	Luigi Musso ( Lancia-Ferrari )	Stirling Moss ( Vanwall )	Peter Collins ( Lancia-Ferrari )	Stirling Moss ( Vanwall )
8th	April 13, 1958	Luigi Musso ( Ferrari )	Joakim Bonnier ( Maserati )	Paco Godia ( Maserati )	Luigi Musso ( Ferrari )	Luigi Musso ( Ferrari )
	1959 to 1960	no Gran Premio di Siracusa
11	April 25, 1961	Giancarlo Baghetti ( Ferrari )	Dan Gurney ( Porsche )	Joakim Bonnier ( Porsche )	Dan Gurney ( Porsche )	Dan Gurney ( Porsche )
	1962	no Gran Premio di Siracusa
12	April 25, 1963	Jo Siffert ( Lotus )	Carel Godin de Beaufort ( Porsche )	Carlo-Maria Abate ( Cooper )	Jo Siffert ( Lotus )	Jo Siffert ( Lotus )
13	April 12, 1964	John Surtees ( Ferrari )	Lorenzo Bandini ( Ferrari )	Mike Spence ( Lotus )	Lorenzo Bandini ( Ferrari )	Lorenzo Bandini ( Ferrari )
14th	April 1, 1966	John Surtees ( Ferrari )	Lorenzo Bandini ( Ferrari )	David Hobbs ( Lotus )	John Surtees ( Ferrari )	John Surtees ( Ferrari )
15th	May 21, 1967	Mike Parkes ( Ferrari ) and Ludovico Scarfiotti ( Ferrari )	-	Jo Siffert ( Cooper )	Ludovico Scarfiotti ( Ferrari )	Mike Parkes ( Ferrari )

Web links

• Statistics of the Formula 1 races without the world championship on the website www.silhouet.com