Maserati A6GCM

The Maserati A6GCM was a Formula 2 racing car, built and used by Maserati.

In 1952, in Formula 1, the highest single-seater class, a new rule to the fore: The race for the drivers' world championship were down with vehicles racing Formula 2.

Maserati therefore decided to construct a racing version, the A6GCM. The base was the A6GCS, who had in 1951 shines with its versatility. The "G " in the model designation stood for the use of cast iron ( " gihsa " ), although the engine blocks were made of cast aluminum.

Since the engines were in 1952 have a maximum of 500 cc with compressor or 2000 cc without compressor, Maserati renounced compressors. This waiver necessitated the use of three Weber carburettors 38DC03. The engines had two overhead camshafts.

The chassis was taken over by 4CL and shortened the wheelbase to 2280 mm. The low curb weight went back to the built by Fantuzzi body part.

Alberto Massimino, and Gioacchino Colombo both came from the Scuderia Ferrari Maserati revised the car in 1953. Colombo but it had not much time left, he left Maserati in the spring of 1953. The engine has been radically improved and now made 25 hp more. The rear axle has been modified and the front brakes have been strengthened. The gauge fell forward to 1225 mm and 1160 mm on the back.

Sporty was the A6GCM the main opponents, the Ferrari 500, but clearly inferior. For the first time José Froilán González, he also came from Ferrari to Maserati, Scuderia at the Grand Prix of Italy challenge. In the end, the Argentines had only beaten Alberto Ascari.

The big moment for Maserati and the A6GCM proposed at the Italian Grand Prix a year later. The two plant -Maserati of Juan Manuel Fangio and Onofre Marimon fought a race long duel with the lee of the works Ferraris of Ascari and Giuseppe Farina. In the last turn, the Parabolica, the last round of Ascari turned; Fangio and Farina gave way over the grass out, Marimon, however, could not avoid and crashed into Ascari. So Fangio celebrated the first victory for Maserati in the World Cup.

Maserati sold the A6GCM also to privateers. So had riders such as Prince Bira, Gino Bianco, Felice Bonetto, Eitel Cantoni, Johnny Claes, Hermann Lang and Luigi Musso success with the agile vehicle.

Specifications

Literature and sources

Maurizio Tabucchi: Maserati, all Grand Prix - Sports and GT cars from 1926 to today. Heel, King Winter 2004, ISBN 3-89880-211-6

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