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Umberto Maglioli
Italian racing driver (1928–1999) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Umberto Maglioli (5 June 1928 – 7 February 1999) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from 1953 to 1957. In endurance racing, Maglioli was a three-time winner of the Targa Florio.
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Maglioli participated in ten Formula One Grands Prix with Ferrari, Maserati, and Porsche. He achieved two podiums, and scored 3 1⁄3 championship points. He participated in the Targa Florio race nineteen times, winning it three times, and the Mille Miglia ten times, with the best result being a second place in the Lancia Aurelia B20 GT in 1951.[1]
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Born in Bioglio, Vercelli, he was introduced to racing by Giovanni Bracco and accompanied him on several Mille Miglias and Targa Florios.[1][2] In 1953, he won the Targa (single-handed) for the first time, in a Lancia D20, and also the Pescara 12hr race, driving a Ferrari 375 MM with Mike Hawthorn.[2][1] Maglioli also won the last Carrera Panamericana in 1954, driving the Ferrari 375 Plus.[3] The same year he also won the 1000 km Buenos Aires (with Giuseppe Farina) and the 1000Km Supercortemaggiore at Monza, again with Hawthorn.[2]
Maglioli joined Porsche in 1956 and won the Targa Florio, again single-handed.[2] In 1957, under established rules which allowed F2 cars to enter Grand Prix, Porsche entered two 550RSs for the German Grand Prix, one driven by Maglioli and the other by Edgar Barth.[4] Maglioli though failed to finish. Later that year he crashed his Porsche during the Gaisburg hillclimb in Austria. He recuperated in a hospital in Salzburg with leg injuries so severe that doctors initially feared he may not walk again.[5]
In 1964, Maglioli won the Sebring 12hrs for Ferrari and in 1968 scored his third Targa victory (this time with Vic Elford) in a works Porsche 907.[5] Maglioli retired from racing in 1970.[2] He died in Monza in 1999.
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Complete Formula One World Championship results
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- * Indicates Shared Drive with José Froilán González
- † Indicates Shared Drive with Giuseppe Farina and Maurice Trintignant
- ‡ Indicates Shared Drive with Jean Behra
Non-Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
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