Umberto Maglioli

Umberto Maglioli (5 June 1928 – 7 February 1999) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from Template:F1 to Template:F1. In endurance racing, Maglioli was a three-time winner of the Targa Florio.

Maglioli participated in 10 Formula One Grands Prix with Ferrari, Maserati, and Porsche. He achieved two podiums, and scored 3 Template:Frac 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.<ref name=racingsportscars>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Life and career

File:1953-08-16 Pescara Ferrari 340 0320AM Maglioli+Hawthorn.jpg

Mike Hawthorn and Umberto Maglioli in the #28 Ferrari 340/375 MM at the 2nd Pescara GP on Aug 16, 1953. This is chassis #0320AM.

Born in Bioglio, Vercelli, he was introduced to racing by Giovanni Bracco and accompanied him on several Mille Miglias and Targa Florios.<ref name=racingsportscars/><ref name=msm>Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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.<ref name=msm/><ref name=racingsportscars/> Maglioli also won the last Carrera Panamericana in 1954, driving the Ferrari 375 Plus.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The same year he also won the 1000 km Buenos Aires (with Giuseppe Farina) and the 1000Km Supercortemaggiore at Monza, again with Hawthorn.<ref name=msm/>

He joined Porsche in 1956 and won the Targa Florio, again single-handed.<ref name=msm/> 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.<ref name=msm1999>Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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.<ref name=msmbio>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In 1964 he won the Sebring 12hrs for Ferrari and in 1968 scored his third Targa victory (this time with Vic Elford) in a works Porsche 907.<ref name=msmbio/> Maglioli retired from racing in 1970.<ref name=msm/> He died in Monza in 1999.

Racing record

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	WDC	Points
1953	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 553	Ferrari Straight-4	ARG	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	SUI	ITA Template:Small	NC	0
1954	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 625	Ferrari Straight-4	ARG Template:Small	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER		ITA 3 *	ESP	18th	2
		Ferrari 553								SUI Template:Small
1955	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 625	Ferrari Straight-4	ARG 3 †	MON	500	BEL	NED	GBR				21st	1 Template:Frac
		Ferrari 555								ITA Template:Small
1956	Scuderia Guastalla	Maserati 250F	Maserati Straight-6	ARG	MON	500	BEL	FRA	GBR Template:Small				NC	0
	Officine Alfieri Maserati									GER Template:Small	ITA Ret ‡
1957	Dr Ing F Porsche KG	Porsche 550RS F2	Porsche Flat-4	ARG	MON	500	FRA	GBR	GER Template:Small	PES	ITA		NC	0

* 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)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
1954	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 625	Ferrari I4	SYR	PAU	LAV	BOR	INT Template:Small	BAR Template:Small	CUR	ROM DNA	FRO	COR	BRC	CRY	ROU	CAE	AUG	COR	OUL	RED	PES Template:Small	SAC	JOE	CAD	BER	GOO	DAI
1957	Umberto Maglioli	Porsche RSK	Porsche 547/3 1.5 F4	BUE	SYR	PAU	GLV	NAP Template:Small	RMS	CAE	INT	MOD	MOR