Umberto Maglioli
The large domain Magliolis were the sports car races in which he could look back on a long and successful career in motorsport. 1951 Lancia signed him and he reached the second place in the Mille Miglia. In 1953 he won the Targa Florio for the Italian team. In 1954, he was able to win a Ferrari 375 Plus Carrera Panamericana, which arguably the toughest endurance race in the world. In 1956 he won the Targa Florio, a very important victory for the Zuffenhausen brand with their time still weak displacement vehicles had only an outside chance and only 10 years later overall victory contenders in the World Sportscar Championship was for Porsche.
In 1968 he won in a Porsche 907, the Targa Florio for the third time, this time on the side of Vic Elford. Even at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1964, he could enter on a Ferrari 275P beside his partner Mike Parkes as the winner.
In the 1950s Maglioli always came back as a guest driver for Ferrari used. This trust he thanked the Scuderia during the 1954 Formula 1 season with third place in the Italian Grand Prix, as he shared a car with José González Froilán. The following year, he jumped again as a reserve driver and brought a Ferrari 625 at the Grand Prix of Argentina also in third place in the team with Giuseppe Farina and Maurice Trintignant in the toughest conditions in the target, as in the extreme heat, the riders had to alternate - apart from champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
During the 1956 Formula 1 season, he raced in three races with a Maserati 250F and its recent use in the context of Formula 1 was seen on a Formula 2 Porsche 718 during the race at the Nürburgring in 1957.
In the field of riders was Magliolis prudence, which almost came close to equanimity legendary. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1967 photo shoot Rainer W. Schlegelmilch are known to show the Maglioli in elegant sporty street clothes and fashionable sunglasses, a slightly mocking - distant smile on her lips. Times it resembled a wealthy entrepreneur in the fashion industry to set right the next picture for fun a tank hopper as sun protection for the head - it was apparently completely equal what he looked like it.