Targa Florio 1964

The Ferrari 250 GTO / 64 by Jean Guichet and Carlo Facetti

The Ferrari 250 GTO by Ulf Norinder and Picko Troberg

Porsche 904 GTS

Shelby Cobra

The 48th Targa Florio , also Targa Florio, Piccolo Circuito delle Madonie, Sicilia , took place in Sicily on April 26, 1964 and was the third round of the sports car world championship of that year.

Before the race

Before the starting flag for the Targa fell on the Piccolo circuito delle Madonie , the 1964 World Sports Car Championship was already two races old. The season opener, the Daytona 2000 km race at Daytona International Speedway , came to an end with the success of Pedro Rodríguez and Phil Hill in the North American Racing Team - Ferrari 250 GTO / 64 . The following 12-hour race at Sebring won Mike Parkes and Umberto Maglioli in work - Ferrari 275P .

The race

Before the 1964 race there were some changes to the route. The organizers tried to replace particularly dangerous hairpin bends with less problematic ones. Despite these interventions in the route, the length remained exactly 72 kilometers. Since the number of laps remained affected by ten, a total of 720 kilometers had to be covered in 1964.

Enzo Ferrari decided not to take part in the race with his Scuderia. The organizer gave disputes between Ferrari and the CSI officials as the official reason . Ferrari did not confirm this, so the absence of the Ferrari factory cars was never fully clarified. The absence of the factory team from Maranello was a great disappointment for the audience on site , and even the appearance of Carroll Shelby's team could not make up for it. With the support of Ford , the American brought four cars to Sicily. The Shelby Cobra was driven by Dan Gurney , Jerry Grant , Phil Hill, Bob Bondurant , Masten Gregory and Innes Ireland as well as the two Italians Vito Coco and Vincenzo Arena . Porsche race director Fritz Huschke ordered five cars from Hanstein to Palermo . Edgar Barth and Umberto Maglioli were entrusted with the Porsche 904/8 with a 2-liter eight-cylinder engine. The two 6-cylinder 904 GTS were driven by Antonio Pucci , Colin Davis , Gianni Balzarini and Herbert Linge . Joakim Bonnier and Graham Hill had to drive an aging Porsche 718 GTR . Günter Klass and Jochen Neerpasch drove a Porsche 356B 2000 GS GT . Pucci, already 41 years old and born in Palermo, joined the Porsche works team in 1959 and finished third at Targa that same year . At that time, Huschke von Hanstein was active as a driver and his racing partner.

From the start, Joakim Bonnier took the lead in the 718 GTR, followed by Barth in the eight-cylinder 904 and Gurney in the Cobra. Bonnier completed the first lap in 41 minutes and 16 seconds and gained a considerable lead. But on the following second lap, Bonnier had to give up after a defect in the power transmission. As a result, Barth took the first place in the race, just ahead of Jean Guichet in the Ferrari 250 GTO / 64 registered by Scuderia St. Ambroeus. Another car from Scuderia St. Ambroeus was a Porsche 904 GTS that was driven by Gianni Bulgari and Maurizio Grana . Bulgari took the lead on the third lap but dropped out on the fifth due to a broken chassis. On the same lap, Colin Davis handed his Porsche over to Pucci, who subsequently drove the race of his life. After four very fast laps, he brought the car from third position to the front and celebrated a sure overall victory together with Davis, whose father Sammy was already a racing driver and the first Bentley winner at Le Mans in 1927 . The lead over second placed teammates Balzarini and Linge was more than 13 minutes at the finish.

After Alessandro Cagno in 1906 and Constantino Magistri in 1936, Antonio Pucci was the third Sicilian to win the Targa. The race was a disaster for the Shelby Cobras. Due to defects and accidents, all but one car was canceled. Gurney and Grant drove this to eighth place in the overall ranking. The gap to the winning car was 28 minutes.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	GT 2.0	86	Porsche System Engineering	Antonio Pucci Colin Davis	Porsche 904 GTS	10
2	GT 2.0	84	Porsche System Engineering	Gianni Balzarini Herbert Linge	Porsche 904 GTS	10
3	GT 1.6	58	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Roberto Bussinello Nino Todaro	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ	10
4th	GT 1.6	60	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Sergio Pedretti Alfonso Thiele	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ	10
5	GT 3.0	114	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Luigi Taramazzo Corrado Ferlaino	Ferrari 250 GTO / 64	10
6th	P 2.0	186	Porsche System Engineering	Edgar Barth Umberto Maglioli	Porsche 904/8	10
7th	GT 2.0	74	Porsche System Engineering	Günter Klass Jochen Neerpasch	Porsche 356B 2000 GS GT	10
8th	GT + 3.0	146	Shelby American Inc.	Dan Gurney Jerry Grant	Shelby Cobra	10
9	GT 3.0	112	Ulf Norinder	Ulf Norinder Picko Troberg	Ferrari 250 GTO	10
10	GT 3.0	126	Scuderia Filipinetti	Claude Bourillot Michel de Bourbon-Parma	Ferrari 250 GTO	10
11	S 2.0	178	Mennato Boffa	Mennato Boffa Odoardo Govoni	Maserati Tipo 60	9
12	GT 3.0	128	Scuderia San Marco	Egidio Nicolosi Abramo Zanardelli	Ferrari 250 GTO	9
13	GT 3.0	120	Baldassare Taormina	Baldassare Taormina Pasquale Tacci	Ferrari 250 GT Lusso	9
14th	GT 2.0	90	Jacques Rey	Jacques Rey Jean-Pierre Hanrioud	Porsche 904 GTS	9
15th	P 2.0	190	Societé Automobiles Alpine	Lucien Bianchi Mauro Bianchi	Alpine M63B	9
16	GT 1.6	62	Set colli	Antonio Nicodemi Francesco Lessona	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ	9
17th	GT 1.3	12	Pietro Laureati	Pietro Laureati Secondo Ridolfi	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	9
18th	GT 1.3	36	Giovanni Rigano	Giovanni Rigano Alfonso Merendino	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	9
19th	GT 1.3	22nd	Antonio Petruzzi	Gregorio Garzone Antonio Petruzzi	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	9
20th	GT 1.3	30th	Giuseppe Picciotto	Giuseppe Picciotto Checco D'Angelo	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	9
21st	GT 1.3	10	Scuderia Sant Ambroeus	Girolamo Capra Luciano Galli	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	9
22nd	GT 1.3	8th	Salvatore Panepinto	Salvatore Panepinto Giuseppe Parla	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	9
23	GT 2.5	104	Francesco Santoro	Francesco Santoro Mario Raimondo	Lancia Flaminia	9
24	GT 1.3	24	Vito Sabbia	Vito Sabbia Gaetano Spampinato	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SVM	9
25th	GT 1.3	4th	Scuderia Pegaso	Guido Garufi Ignazio Capuano	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	8th
26th	GT 1.6	54	Scuderia Etna	Vito Tipa Nicolo Lombardo	Romeo Giulia Sprint 1600	8th
27	GT 1.6	56	San Marco	Mario Nardari Ottorino Zarattin	Osca 1600 GT2	8th
28	GT 1.3	28	Scuderia Pegaso	Vincenzo Mirto Randazzo Giuseppe Crisafi	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS	8th
Failed
29	GT 2.0	72	Scuderia Filipinetti	Herbert Müller Bernhard Rayers	Porsche 904 GTS	9
30th	GT + 3.0	142	Shelby American Inc.	Phil Hill Bob Bondurant	Shelby Cobra	9
31	GT + 3.0	150	Shelby American Inc.	Vito Coco Vincenzo Arena	Shelby Cobra 289	7th
32	GT + 3.0	152	Tommy Hitchcock	Zourab Tchkotoua Tommy Hitchcock	Shelby Cobra	7th
33	GT + 3.0	148	Shelby American Inc.	Masts Gregory Innes Ireland	Shelby Cobra	6th
34	GT 1.3	2	Scuderia Pegaso	Franco Tagliavia Antonio di Salvo	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	5
35	GT 2.0	78	Scuderia St. Ambroeus	Gianni Bulgari Maurizio Grana	Porsche 904 GTS	5
36	GT 2.0	80	Luciano Conti	Luciano Conti Giancarlo Venturi	Abarth-Simca 2000GT	5
37	GT 3.0	118	Scuderia St. Ambroeus	Jean Guichet Carlo Facetti	Ferrari 250 GTO / 64	5
38	S 2.0	162	Set colli	Leandro Terra Cesare Toppetti	Ferrari Dino 196SP	5
39	GT 1.3	16	Scuderia Etna	Angelo Bonaccorsi Francesco Susinno	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	4th
40	GT 1.3	20th	Societé Automobiles Alpine	José Rosinski Jean Rolland	Alpine A110	4th
41	GT 3.0	132	Luigi Mosca	Luigi Mosca Fortinbras	Ferrari 250 GTO	4th
42	P 2.0	182	HF Squadra Corse	René Trautmann Leo Cella	Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato	4th
43	GT 1.3	40	Societé Automobiles Alpine	Jacques Féret Pierre Orsini	Alpine A110	3
44	GT 2.0	76	Abarth & Cie	Hans Herrmann Franco Patria	Abarth-Simca 2000GT	3
45	GT 2.0	94	Andrea Vianini	Andrea Vianini Bruno Deserti	Porsche 904 GTS	3
46	S 2.0	176	Vita Foam	Rupert Jones Harry Ratcliffe	Morris Mini Cooper S.	3
47	P 2.0	184	HF Squadra Corse	Marco Crosina Ferdinando Frescobaldi	Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato	3
48	P 2.0	192	DH Motorcobra	Paddy Hopkirk Tommy Wisdom	Austin-Healey Sprite	3
49	P 3.0	204	Scuderia Centro Sud	Piero Frescobaldi Giancarlo Baghetti	ATS 2500 GT Coupé	3
50	GT 1.3	6th	René Bonnet	Louis Navarro Jean-Jacques Pagnon	René Bonnet Djet	2
51	GT 1.3	14th	Scuderia Etna	Giuseppe Virgilio Alfio Monaco	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	2
52	GT 1.3	38	René Bonnet	Roland Charrière Robert Bouharde	René Bonnet Djet	2
53	S 2.0	164	Filippo di Liberto	Domenico Rotolo Filippo di Liberto	Osca MT4 1000	2
54	GT 1.3	164	Scuderia Pegaso	Sergio Mantia Sergio Abbate	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ	1
55	GT 1.3	34	Scuderia Etna	Rosario Montalbano Salvatore Calascibetta	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	1
56	GT 2.0	82	Abarth & Cie	Tommy Spychiger Antonio Riolo	Abarth-Simca 2000GT	1
57	GT 2.5	102		Stefano Sillitti Carmelo Giugno	Lancia Flaminia	1
58	GT 2.5	106		Antonio Scimone Luigi Randazzo	Lancia Flaminia	1
59	S 2.0	168	Peloritana	Franco Lisitano Letterio Cucinotta	Fiat 8V	1
60	P 2.0	188	Porsche System Engineering	Joakim Bonnier Graham Hill	Porsche 718 GTR	1
61	P 2.0	194	Antonino Siddi	Antonino Siddi Alfredo Fondi	MGB	1
62	P 3.0	202	Scuderia Centro Sud	Teodoro Zeccoli Paolo Gardi	ATS 2500 GT Coupé	1
63	GT 2.0	92	Emanuele Benedetto	Emanuele Bendetto Vittorio Orlando	Porsche 356 Carrera	1
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64	GT 1.6	52		Giancarlo Rigamonti Vincenzo Riolo	Alfa Romeo Giulia	1
65	GT 2.0	88	Hate Radefalk	Hate Radefalk George Duneborn	Porsche 904 GTS	2
66	S 2.0	174	Jackie Epstein	Jackie Epstein Bill Wilks	Brabham BT8	3

¹ Accident in training ² Accident in training ³ not started

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
67	GT 1.3	18th		Jean Sage Jean Sirdey	Alpine A110
68	GT 3.0	116	David Piper		Ferrari 250 GTO
69	GT 3.0	122	Ian Burgess	Ian Burgess Mario Cabral	Ferrari 250 GTO
70	GT + 3.0	144	AC Cars		AC Cobra
71	S 1.0	166			De Sanctis

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
P 3.0	no participant in the finish
P 2.0	Edgar Barth	Umberto Magliolo	Porsche 904/8	Rank 6
S 2.0	Mennato Boffa	Odoardo Govoni	Maserati Tipo 60	Rank 11
GT + 3.0	Dan Gurney	Jerry Grant	Shelby Cobra	Rank 8
GT 3.0	Luigi Taramazzo	Corrado Ferlaino	Ferrari 250 GTO / 64	Rank 5
GT 2.0	Antonio Pucci	Colin Davis	Porsche 904 GTS	Overall victory
GT 1.6	Roberto Bussinello	Nino Todaro	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ	Rank 3
GT 1.3	Pietro Laureati	Secondo Ridolfi	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	Rank 17

Racing data

• Registered: 71
• Started: 63
• Rated: 28
• Race classes: 8
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 72,000 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 7:10: 53,300 hours
• Overall rounds of the winning team: 10
• Total distance of the winning team: 720,000 km
• Winner's average: 100.258 km / h
• Fastest training time: unknown
• Fastest race lap: Colin Davis - Porsche 904 GTS (# 86) - 41: 10.400 = 104.022 km / h
• Racing series: 3rd round of the sports car world championship in 1964

literature

• Pino Fondi: Targa Florio - 20th Century Epic. Giorgio Nada Editore Vimodrone 2006, ISBN 88-7911-270-8 .

Web links

Commons : Targa Florio 1964  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Race results

Previous race of the Sebring 12-hour race in 1964

Sports car world championship

Successor race of the 1964 Monza Grand Prix