Umberto Maglioli (5 June 1928 – 7 February 1999) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from to . In endurance racing, Maglioli was a three-time winner of the Targa Florio.
Maglioli participated in ten Formula One Grands Prix with Ferrari, Maserati, and Porsche. He achieved two podiums, and scored 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.
Life and career
Born in Bioglio, Vercelli, he was introduced to racing by Giovanni Bracco and accompanied him on several Mille Miglias and Targa Florios. 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. Maglioli also won the last Carrera Panamericana in 1954, driving the Ferrari 375 Plus. The same year he also won the 1000 km Buenos Aires (with Giuseppe Farina) and the 1000Km Supercortemaggiore at Monza, again with Hawthorn.
Maglioli joined Porsche in 1956 and won the Targa Florio, again single-handed. 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. 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.
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. Maglioli retired from racing in 1970. 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 NC 0 1954 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 625 Ferrari Straight-4 ARG 500 BEL FRA GBR GER ITA3 * ESP 18th 2 Ferrari 553 SUI 1955 Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 625 Ferrari Straight-4 ARG3 † MON 500 BEL NED GBR 21st 1 Ferrari 555 ITA 1956 Scuderia Guastalla Maserati 250F Maserati Straight-6 ARG MON 500 BEL FRA GBR NC 0 Officine Alfieri Maserati GER ITARet ‡ 1957 Dr Ing F Porsche KG Porsche 550RS F2 Porsche Flat-4 ARG MON 500 FRA GBR GER 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 BAR CUR ROMDNA FRO COR BRC CRY ROU CAE AUG COR OUL RED PES SAC JOE CAD BER GOO DAI 1957 Umberto Maglioli Porsche RSK Porsche 547/3 1.5 F4 BUE SYR PAU GLV NAP RMS CAE INT MOD MOR
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