1962 Targa Florio

The 46° Targa Florio was a motor race which took place on 6 May 1962, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily, Italy. Ferraris placed first and second, with a Porsche finishing third. The race was part of the World Sportscar Championship as well as the Grand Touring championship.

1962 winners, from left: Ricardo Rodriguez, Olivier Gendebien and Willy Mairesse

Race

Ferrari dominated most of the 1962 race, with a double victory for the team cars and with two privateers finishing fourth and fifth. Ferrari won both the sports car and the GT trophies, with Porsche winning the under two-liter GT category with a Carrera 1600. Porsche were trying out a new version of the 718, combining the two-litre boxer-eight (developed from the 1.5 litre engine used in the Formula 1 car, and also seen in testing for Le Mans 1961) with the new coupé bodywork which had thus far only been used with a four-cylinder engine. Worried about reliability, they had Count Volpi's Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia enter the two cars instead, which is why they were painted red. The second car was driven by Graham Hill and Dan Gurney, but the latter crashed it after a brake failure. The third-placed car also had brake problems as Porsche were still coming to grips with disc brakes.

Official Classification

Class Winners are in Bold text.

Pos	No	Class	Driver			Entrant	Chassis	Time	Image
1st	152	S3.0	Willy Mairesse	Ricardo Rodriguez	Olivier Gendebien	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 246 SP	7:02'56.3, 10
2nd	120	P3.0	Giancarlo Baghetti	Lorenzo Bandini		Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 196 SP	7:14'24.0, 10
3rd	108	P2.0	Joakim Bonnier	Nino Vaccarella		Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	Porsche 718 GTR Coupé	7:17'20.0, 10
4th	86	GT3.0	Giorgio Scarlatti	Pietro Ferraro		San Marco	Ferrari 250 GTO	7:22'08.0, 10
5th	92	GT3.0	Roger de Lageneste	Jean Rolland			Ferrari 250 GT SWB	7:44'33.0, 10
6th	42	GT1.6	Hans Herrmann	Herbert Linge		Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	Porsche 356B Carrera Abarth GTL	7:46'26.0, 10
7th	14	GT1.3	Vito Coco	Salvatore Arena		Scuderia Etna	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato	7:50'36.0, 10
8th	74	GT2.5	Piero Frescobaldi	Alessandro Federico		Jolly Club	Lancia Flaminia Sport Zagato	7:51'38.0, 10
9th	56	GT1.3	Alfonso Thiele	Jean Guichet		Scuderia Sant' Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato	7:56'39.0, 10
10th	44	GT1.6	Antonio Pucci	Edgar Barth		Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia	Porsche 356B Carrera Abarth GTL	8:00'05.0, 10
11th	34	GT1.3	Giuseppe Virgilio	Giuseppe Sciacchitano		Scuderia Etna	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato	8:07'05.0, 10
12th	8	GT1.3	Francesco Susinno	Giulio Pernice		Scuderia Etna	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce	8:21'56.0, 10
13th	52	GT1.6	Alfonso Vella	Pietro Termini		Balarm	Porsche 356B Carrera	8:22'50.0, 10
14th	6	GT1.3	Girolamo Capra	Giuseppe Dalla Torre		Scuderia Sant' Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce	8:25'27.0, 10
15th	4	GT1.3	Giancarlo Sala	Sergio Pedretti ("Kim")		Scuderia Sant' Ambroeus	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce	8:26'44.0, 10
16th	40	GT1.6	Raffaello Ciarpaglini	Ottavio Prandoni		Scuderia Ambrosiana	Porsche 356B Carrera Reutter	8:39'13.3, 10
17th	28	GT1.3	Angelo Bonaccorsi	Vito Sabbia		Scuderia Etna	Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce	8:41'10.2, 10
18th	10	GT1.3	Franco Tagliavia	Guido Garufi			Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce	8:53'21.0, 10
19th	82	GT3.0	Umberto de Bonis	Roberto Fusina			250 GT California Spyder SWB	8:55'56.2, 10
20th	64	GT2.0	Giuseppe Ramirez	Luigi Ramirez			Lancia Aurelia B20	9:34'12.0, 10