Targa Florio 1958
The 42nd Targa Florio , also 42 ° Targa Florio, Piccolo Circuito delle Madonie, Sicilia , took place in Sicily on May 11, 1958 and was the third round of the sports car world championship of that year.
Before the race
The long-distance race on public roads in Sicily was the third world championship race of the 1958 sports car world championship . The first two events, the Buenos Aires 1000 km race and the Sebring 12 hour race, ended with successes for the Ferrari factory team by Phil Hill and Peter Collins . After Hill and Collins were victorious in the last race of the World Sports Car Championship in 1957 , the 1000 km race in Caracas , the two won three races in a row for the Scuderia.
The 1958 race was the last Targa Florio to be under the patronage of Vincenzo Florio . The founder and namesake of the event, born in 1883, died in January 1959 at the age of 78 in Épernay, France .
The race
As in the previous races, Scuderia Ferrari was most strongly represented with vehicles. Four Ferrari 250TR58 were driven by Hill, Collins, Luigi Musso , Olivier Gendebien , Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , Mike Hawthorn , Gino Munaron and Wolfgang Seidel . Another Ferrari, a 500TR , was reported by Palermo-born nobleman Prince Gaetano Starrabba di Giardinelli , who shared the controls of the car with Franco Cortese .
The greatest opposition arose from the Italian racing team from Porsche . The Porsche 718 were inferior to the 3-liter Testa Rossa Ferrari with their 1.5-liter engines, but lighter and more agile than the Ferrari. Aston Martin race director John Wyer reported an Aston Martin DBR1 / 300 driven by Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks .
The racing event was overshadowed by a fatal accident. The Ferrari 250 GT of the Piedmontese Sergio Der Stepanian collided during a training drive with a truck loaded with sand. The Stepanian was injured so badly that he died a short time later in a hospital.
At the beginning of the race, Stirling Moss was in the lead, but he lost the track and damaged his radiator so severely that he had to give up. After the withdrawal of the Aston Martin, a tough battle developed between the factory Ferrari and the factory Porsche, which Luigi Musso and Olivier Gendebien ultimately decided for Ferrari. At the finish they had a lead of almost five minutes over the Porsche of Jean Behra and Giorgio Scarlatti .
Results
Final ranking
Item | class | No. | team | driver | vehicle | Round | ||
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1 | S 3.0 | 106 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Luigi Musso Olivier Gendebien |
Ferrari 250TR / 58 | 14th | ||
2 | S 1.5 | 68 | Porsche KG |
Jean Behra Giorgio Scarlatti |
Porsche 718 RSK | 14th | ||
3 | S 3.0 | 102 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Wolfgang Graf Berghe from Trips Mike Hawthorn |
Ferrari 250TR / 58 | 14th | ||
4th | S 3.0 | 98 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Peter Collins Phil Hill |
Ferrari 250TR / 58 | 14th | ||
5 | S 1.5 | 72 |
Giulio Cabianca Franco Bordoni-Bisleri |
Osca S1500 | 14th | |||
6th | GT 1.6 | 26th | Porsche KG |
Antonio Pucci Fritz Huschke von Hanstein |
Porsche 356A Carrera 1500 GS | 14th | ||
7th | S 2.0 | 90 |
Gaetano Starrabba Franco Cortese |
Ferrari 500TRC | 14th | |||
8th | GT 1.3 | 24 |
Nino Todaro Ernesto Dagnino
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 14th | |||
9 | GT 1.3 | 8th |
Carlo-Maria Abate Gianni Balzarini |
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 14th | |||
10 | S 2.0 | 96 |
Bernardo Cammarota Domenico Tramontana
|
Ferrari 500TRC | 14th | |||
11 | S 1.1 | 58 |
Antonio di Salvo Domenico Minneci
|
Raor-Fiat 1100 | 14th | |||
12 | GT 1.3 | 6th |
Casimiro Toselli Armando Filippa
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 14th | |||
13 | GT 2.6 | 42 |
Rosario Montalbano Gaspare Bologna
|
Fiat 8V | 14th | |||
14th | S 1.1 | 60 |
Gaspare Cavaliere Salvatore Sirchia
|
Fiat 1100 | 14th | |||
15th | GT 1.3 | 14th |
Ada Pace Carlo Peroglio
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV | 14th | |||
Failed | ||||||||
16 | GT 2.6 | 40 |
Raimondo Gangitano Gianfernando Tomaselli
|
Lancia Aurelia | 13 | |||
17th | S 1.5 | 80 | Porsche KG |
Giorgio Scarlatti Edgar Barth |
Porsche 550 RS | 13 | ||
18th | S 3.0 | 104 | Scuderia Ferrari |
Gino Munaron Wolfgang Seidel |
Ferrari 250TR | 13 | ||
19th | GT 1.3 | 16 |
Vincenzo Arena Luigi Arena Diego Pagano
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint | 12 | |||
20th | GT 2.6 | 28 |
Franco Dari Giuseppe Cucchiarelli
|
Fiat 8V | 12 | |||
21st | GT 1.3 | 2 |
Sergio Mantia Giuseppe Ramirez
|
Fiat 1100/103 TV | ||||
22nd | GT 1.3 | 4th |
Baldassare Taormina Pasquale Tacci
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | ||||
23 | GT 1.3 | 12 |
Ettore Marconi Piero Frescobaldi |
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | ||||
24 | GT 1.3 | 18th |
Domenico Lo Coco Roberto Guglielmini
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | ||||
25th | GT 1.3 | 20th |
Sergio Bettoja P. Feroldi
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV Zagato | ||||
26th | GT 2.6 | 30th |
Nino Vaccarella Enrico Giaccone
|
Lancia Aurelia | ||||
27 | GT 2.6 | 34 |
Giuseppe Parla Umberto Lo Pinto
|
Lancia Aurelia | ||||
28 | GT 2.6 | 36 |
Alfonso Vella Pietro Termini
|
Fiat 8V | ||||
29 | GT 3.0 | 48 |
Guido Cestelli-Guidi Giuseppe Musso
|
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL | ||||
30th | GT 3.0 | 52 |
Pietro Ferraro Paolo Ferraro
|
Ferrari 250 GT LWB | ||||
31 | S 1.1 | 54 |
Guido Garufi Lorenzo Melarosa
|
Osca MT4 | ||||
32 | S 1.1 | 64 |
Giuseppe Rossi Enzo Buzzetti
|
Osca 1100S | ||||
33 | S 1.1 | 66 |
Domenico Rotolo Luigi di Pasquale
|
Osca 1100S | ||||
34 | S 1.5 | 70 | Automobili Osca |
Colin Davis Alejandro de Tomaso |
Osca MT4 1500 | |||
35 | S 1.5 | 74 | Automobili Osca |
Luciano Mantovani Ludovico Scarfiotti |
Osca S1500 | |||
36 | S 2.0 | 84 |
Mennato Boffa Odoardo Govoni
|
Maserati 200SI | ||||
37 | S 2.0 | 88 |
Anna Maria Peduzzi Francesco Siracusa
|
Ferrari 500 TR | ||||
38 | S 3.0 | 100 | David Brown |
Stirling Moss Tony Brooks |
Aston Martin DBR1 / 300 | |||
Not started | ||||||||
39 | GT 1.3 | 10 | Nicoly | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 1 | |||
40 | GT 1.3 | 22nd |
Giuseppe Pizzo Emanuele Trapani
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint | 2 | |||
41 | GT 2.6 | 32 |
Giuseppe Conigliaro Mario Conigliaro
|
Lancia Aurelia | 3 | |||
42 | GT 2.6 | 36 |
Carlo Fabi Gianfranco Fabbri
|
Fiat 8V | 4th | |||
43 | GT 3.0 | 44 |
Armando Zampiero Zampiero
|
Ferrari 250 GT | 5 | |||
45 | GT 3.0 | 46 |
Arnaldo Bongiasca Mario Bongiasca
|
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL | 6th | |||
46 | GT 3.0 | 46 |
Sergio The Stepanian Adolfo Macchieraldo
|
Ferrari 250 GT LWB | 7th | |||
47 | S 1.1 | 56 | Francesco La Mattina | Osca MT4 | 8th | |||
48 | S 1.1 | 62 |
Francesco Paolo D'Agostino Silvio Boffa Vincenzo Sorrentino
|
Osca MT4 | 9 | |||
49 | S 1.5 | 76 | Alfonso Thiele | Porsche 356 Carrera | 10 | |||
50 | S 2.0 | 82 |
Guido Perrella Guiliano Giovanardi
|
Maserati 200SI | 11 | |||
51 | S 2.0 | 86 |
Elio Pandolfo Claudio Faranda Mario Pandolfo
|
Ferrari 500TR | 12 | |||
52 | S 2.0 | 92 | Giuseppe Alotta | Maserati 200SI | 13 | |||
53 | S 2.0 | 94 |
Enzo Lopez Mario Bornigia
|
Maserati 200SI | 14th | |||
54 | S + 3.0 | T | David Brown |
Stirling Moss Tony Brooks
|
Aston Martin DBR2 | 15th |
1 not started 2 not started 3 not started 4 not started 5 not started 6 not started 7 fatal accident of Der Stepanian in training 8 not started 9 not started 10 not started 11 not started 12 not started 13 not started 14 not started 15 training car
Only in the entry list
Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.
Item | class | No. | team | driver | chassis |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
55 | GT 1.3 | Michele Tornatore | Alfa Romeo Giulietta | ||
56 | GT 1.3 | Marinoni | Alfa Romeo Giulietta | ||
57 | GT 1.3 |
Gaspare Cavaliere Antonio Micciche Pietro Ferro
|
Alfa Romeo Giulietta | ||
58 | GT 2.6 |
Giovanni Giordano Gregorio Rizzotti
|
Fiat 8V | ||
59 | GT 2.6 |
Basilio Gugliandolo Carlo Fulci
|
Fiat 8V | ||
60 | GT 2.6 | Armando Zampiero | Ferrari 166 Inter GT | ||
61 | S 1.1 | Vincenzo Sorrentino | Osca 1100S | ||
62 | S 1.5 | Zephirin Miani | Osca MT4 | ||
63 | S 2.0 | Luigi Bellucci | Maserati 200SI | ||
64 | GT 1.3 | Alfa Romeo Giulietta | |||
65 | S 2.0 | Joakim Bonnier | Maserati 200SI | ||
66 | S 1.5 | 78 | Alfredo Fondi | MGA |
Class winner
Racing data
- Registered: 66
- Started: 38
- Valued: 15
- Race classes: 7
- Spectator: unknown
- Race day weather: warm and dry
- Route length: 72,000 km
- Driving time of the winning team: 10:37: 58.100 hours
- Overall laps of the winning team: 14
- Total distance of the winning team: 1008,000 km
- Winner's average: 94.801 km / h
- Fastest training time: unknown
- Fastest race lap: Stirling Moss - Aston Martin DBR1 / 300 (# 100) - 42: 17.500 = 102.148 km / h
- Racing series: 3rd round of the 1958 World Sports Car Championship
literature
- Pino Fondi: Targa Florio - 20th Century Epic. Giorgio Nada Editore Vimodrone 2006, ISBN 88-7911-270-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
Previous race, the Sebring 12-hour race, 1958 |
Sports car world championship |
Follow -up race 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1958 |