Umberto Maglioli (5 June 1928, in Bioglio, Vercelli – 7 February 1999, in Monza) was a racing driver from Italy.
He participated in 10 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 September 1953. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 3 1⁄3 championship points. Maglioli also won the last Carrera Panamericana in 1954, driving the Ferrari 375 Plus.
He participated in the Targa Florio race nineteen times between 1948 and 1970. He had won it a total of three times; once for Lancia and twice for Porsche. He also raced in the Mille Miglia ten times, with the best result being a second place in the Lancia Aurelia B20 GT in 1951. Info from Wiki
Bio by Stephen Latham
Umberto Maglioli raced in several GP races for Ferrari and Maserati although was probably best known as a sports car driver and was one of the foremost Ferrari long-distance drivers of the early 1950s.
He finished second in a Lancia in the 1951 Mille Miglia then in 1953 won the Targa Florio plus made his Le Mans debut. Switching to Ferrari for the rest of the season, he won the Pescara 12 Hours (with Mike Hawthorn) and finished eighth on his GP debut in Italy. He survived a massive crash in the Carrera Panamerica race which destroyed his Ferrari. He then took over his team-mate’s car and drove at astonishing speed to try to catch Fangio’s Lancia, averaging 138 mph on one section while in pursuit.
He stayed with Ferrari in 1954 and in winning the Buenos Aires 1000Kms and the Carrera Panamericana helped them win the World Sportscar Championship. During the latter race he had a record setting average of 107 mph for the whole 5-day distance. He also drove in three GPs that year and finished third at Monza in a Ferrari Tipo 625, with José Froilán González.
In 1955’s Argentinian GP he again took third place, taking turns with Maurice Trintignant and Giuseppe Farina in the extreme heat. During that year there was a sixth place finish at Monza in a Super Squalo plus he also won the Circuito di Mugello in a Ferrari 750 Monza but then left the team at the end of the season.
1956 saw him with Porsche for the Nürburgring 1000Kms, finishing fourth with Wolfgang von Trips plus won the Targa Florio in a 550RS with Huschke von Hanstein. This gave Porsche their first overall Targa Florio victory. There were also three more GPs in that year, in a Maserati 250F, though he retired in them.
In 1957 he took fourth overall, and was class winner, in the Nurburgring 1000Kms though retired from the German GP, which was his final world championship GP. Unfortunately he later crashed his Porsche during a hillclimb in Austria and his leg injuries were so severe that doctors feared he may not walk again.
Despite this, he recovered and eventually returned to the Ferrari team in 1963. There were third place finishes at the Nurburgring and Le Mans (with Mike Parkes) plus the following year he and Parkes took victory in the Sebring 12 Hours in a 275P.
He finished the 1965 and 1966 Targa Florio races in third and fifth positions and won it for a third time in 1968 in a Porsche 907, with Vic Elford.
The following year saw him and Elford finish second and he continued racing through to the late 1960s. After retiring he had a business making exclusive watches.
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