Umberto Maglioli
Umberto Maglioli was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 10 Grands Prix from to. In endurance racing, Maglioli was a three-time winner of the Targa Florio.
Maglioli participated in ten Formula One Grands Prix with Ferrari, Maserati, and Porsche. He achieved two podiums, and scored 3 championship points. He participated in the Targa Florio race nineteen times, winning it three times, and the Mille Miglia ten times, with the best result being a second place in the Lancia Aurelia B20 GT in 1951.
Life and career
Born in Bioglio, Vercelli, he was introduced to racing by Giovanni Bracco and accompanied him on several Mille Miglias and Targa Florios. In 1953, he won the Targa for the first time, in a Lancia D20, and also the Pescara 12hr race, driving a Ferrari 375 MM with Mike Hawthorn. Maglioli also won the last Carrera Panamericana in 1954, driving the Ferrari 375 Plus. The same year he also won the 1000 km Buenos Aires and the 1000Km Supercortemaggiore at Monza, again with Hawthorn.Maglioli joined Porsche in 1956 and won the Targa Florio, again single-handed. In 1957, under established rules which allowed F2 cars to enter Grand Prix, Porsche entered two 550RSs for the German Grand Prix, one driven by Maglioli and the other by Edgar Barth. Maglioli though failed to finish. Later that year he crashed his Porsche during the Gaisburg hillclimb in Austria. He recuperated in a hospital in Salzburg with leg injuries so severe that doctors initially feared he may not walk again.
In 1964, Maglioli won the Sebring 12hrs for Ferrari and in 1968 scored his third Targa victory in a works Porsche 907. Maglioli retired from racing in 1970. He died in Monza in 1999.
Racing record
Complete Formula One World Championship results
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | WDC | Points |
| 1953 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 553 | Ferrari Straight-4 | ARG | 500 | NED | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | SUI | ITA 8 | NC | 0 |
| 1954 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 625 | Ferrari Straight-4 | ARG 9 | 500 | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | ITA 3 * | ESP | 18th | 2 | |
| 1954 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 553 | Ferrari Straight-4 | SUI 7 | 18th | 2 | ||||||||
| 1955 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 625 | Ferrari Straight-4 | ARG 3 † | MON | 500 | BEL | NED | GBR | 21st | 1 | |||
| 1955 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 555 | Ferrari Straight-4 | ITA 6 | 21st | 1 | ||||||||
| 1956 | Scuderia Guastalla | Maserati 250F | Maserati Straight-6 | ARG | MON | 500 | BEL | FRA | GBR Ret | NC | 0 | |||
| 1956 | Officine Alfieri Maserati | Maserati 250F | Maserati Straight-6 | GER Ret | ITA Ret ‡ | NC | 0 | |||||||
| 1957 | Dr Ing F Porsche KG | Porsche 550RS F2 | Porsche Flat-4 | ARG | MON | 500 | FRA | GBR | GER Ret | PES | ITA | NC | 0 |
Non-Championship results
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 1954 | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 625 | Ferrari I4 | SYR | PAU | LAV | BOR | INT Ret | BAR 7 | CUR | ROM DNA | FRO | COR | BRC | CRY | ROU | CAE | AUG | COR | OUL | RED | PES DNS | SAC | JOE | CAD | BER | GOO | DAI |
| 1957 | Umberto Maglioli | Porsche RSK | Porsche 547/3 1.5 F4 | BUE | SYR | PAU | GLV | NAP NC | RMS | CAE | INT | MOD | MOR | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |