Mennato Boffa

Maserati Tipo 60, chassis number 2466; Mennato Boffa drove sports car races with this chassis

Mennato Boffa (born December 23, 1929 in Benevento , † September 28, 1996 in Naples ) was an Italian racing driver .

Racing career

Mennato Boffa's interest in motorsport was aroused by his father, who took the eight-year-old with him to the Coppa Principesa di Piemonte in Posillipo in 1937 . Father and son watched as spectators the victories of Giuseppe Farina and Carlo Felice in an Alfa Romeo 12C . Boffa drove his first own race in 1953 from Catania to Mount Etna . Although the emergency vehicle to be everyday car, a Fiat 1100R was, he achieved a class victory in the hill climb . With the support of the father of the later Lancia and Ferrari racing director Cesare Fiorio , he came to better vehicles in the mid-1950s. He started at the Targa Florio for the first time and finished second in the Gran Premio di Napoli in 1957 and 1959 . In 1960 he won this race.

At the beginning of the 1960s he was one of the most successful Italian sports car drivers . He won in 1960, 1961 and 1964 the overall standings of the Italian Sports Car Championship and ended the the World Sportscar Championship in 1961 scoring four-hour race at Pescara third overall.

Mennato Boffa was registered in 1961 in four Formula 1 races without world championship status and the Italian Grand Prix . In no race he could classify with his Cooper T45 . With the end of the 1964 season, he ended his driving career. In 1979 he made a comeback at the age of 50, which came to an end after a few appearances in September 1980.

statistics

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
1955		Lancia Aurelia	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
								DNF
1958		Maserati 200SI	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					DNF
1959	Scuderia Centro Sud	Maserati A6G	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				5
1960	Luigi Bellucci	Maserati Tipo 60	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
					DNF
1961	Scuderia Serenissima Mennato Boffa	Maserati Tipo 60	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
				DNF			3
1964	Mennato Boffa	Maserati Tipo 60	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
					11
1979	Mennato Boffa	Osella PA5	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	BRH	ROA	VAL	ELS
																		DNF
1980	Mennato Boffa	Osella PA5	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
						11

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

Commons : Mennato Boffa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mennato Boffa at Racing Sports Cars
• Mennato Boffa at Historic Racing
• Mennato Boffa at F1Stats

Individual evidence

1. ^ Coppa Principesa di Piemonte 1937