José Faraoni

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In a Maserati A6GCS , José Faraoni finished third overall in the 1955 Buenos Aires 1000 km race

José Manuel Faraoni (born March 28, 1918 in Roldán ; † May 13, 1994 ) was an Argentine racing car driver .

Racing career

José Faraoni was mainly active in sports car racing in the 1950s . In 1953 he was Alan Brown's partner in a Cooper T25 converted into a sports car at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring . The race, which was part of the sports car world championship in 1953 , finished the duo in sixteenth in the overall standings. His greatest international success was third overall at the 1000 km race in Buenos Aires in 1955 , which he drove together with Ricardo Grandío in the Maserati A6GCS .

His only noteworthy monoposto use was at the 1955 Grand Prix of Buenos Aires , a Formula 1 race without world championship status . In the race that Juan Manuel Fangio won ahead of Stirling Moss (both in a Mercedes-Benz W 196 ), he retired after a defect in his Maserati A6GCM .

statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th
1953 Equipe Anglaise Cooper T25 United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
16
1955 Juan Perón Maserati A6GCS ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR
3

literature

  • Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grand Prix of Buenos Aires 1955
personal data
SURNAME Faraoni, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faraoni, José Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Roldan
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1994