1962 winners, from left: Ricardo Rodriguez, "Olivier Gendebien." And Willy Mairesse
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.
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
References ※
^ Björklund, Bengt, ed. (June 1962). "Bonnier i Targa Florio" [Bonnier in the Targa Florio]. Illustrerad Motor Sport (in Swedish). No. 6. Lerum, Sweden. p. 14.
^ "Targa Florio 1962 (Race Results)" . Racing Sports Cars . Retrieved 2016-05-17 .