Targa Florio 1958

The winning Ferrari 250TR / 58 from Luigi Musso and Olivier Gendebien

Vincenzo Florio welcomes the overall seventh Gaetano Starrabba in the Ferrari 500TRC at the finish

Peter Collins goes back into the race in the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa after the pit stop to change drivers

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
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
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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
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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

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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

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 3.0	Luigi Musso	Olivier Gendebien	Ferrari 250TR / 58	Overall victory
S 2.0	Gaetano Starrabba	Franco Cortese	Ferrari 500TRC	Rank 7
S 1.5	Jean Behra	Giorgio Scarlatti	Porsche 718 RSK	Rank 2
S 1.1	Antonio di Salvo	Domenico Minneci	Roar Fiat 1100	Rank 11
GT 2.6	Rosario Montalbano	Gaspare Bologna	Fiat 8V	Rank 13
GT 1.6	Antonio Pucci	Fritz Huschke from Hanstein	Porsche 356A Carrera 1500 GS	Rank 6
GT 1.3	Nino Todaro	Ernesto Dagnino	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce	Rank 8

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

Commons : Targa Florio 1958  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Results at WSRP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on Vincenzo Florio

Previous race, the Sebring 12-hour race, 1958

Sports car world championship

Follow -up race 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1958