Umberto Maglioli


Umberto Maglioli 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 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.
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.
He 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 hospital in Salzburg with leg injuries so severe that doctors initially feared he may not walk again.
In 1964 he 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.

Racing record

Complete Formula One World Championship results

YearEntrantChassisEngine123456789WDCPoints
1953Scuderia FerrariFerrari 553Ferrari Straight-4ARG500NEDBELFRAGBRGERSUIITA
8		NC0
1954Scuderia FerrariFerrari 625Ferrari Straight-4ARG
9		500BELFRAGBRGERITA
3 *		ESP18th2
1954Scuderia FerrariFerrari 553Ferrari Straight-4SUI
7		18th2
1955Scuderia FerrariFerrari 625Ferrari Straight-4ARG
3 †		MON500BELNEDGBR21st1
1955Scuderia FerrariFerrari 555Ferrari Straight-4ITA
6		21st1
1956Scuderia GuastallaMaserati 250FMaserati Straight-6ARGMON500BELFRAGBR
Ret		NC0
1956Officine Alfieri MaseratiMaserati 250FMaserati Straight-6GER
Ret		ITA
Ret ‡		NC0
1957Dr Ing F Porsche KGPorsche 550RS F2Porsche Flat-4ARGMON500FRAGBRGER
Ret		PESITANC0

Non-Championship results

YearEntrantChassisEngine12345678910111213141516171819202122232425
1954Scuderia FerrariFerrari 625Ferrari I4SYRPAULAVBORINT
Ret		BAR
7		CURROM
DNA		FROCORBRCCRYROUCAEAUGCOROULREDPES
DNS		SACJOECADBERGOODAI
1957Umberto MaglioliPorsche RSKPorsche 547/3 1.5 F4BUESYRPAUGLVNAP
NC		RMSCAEINTMODMOR---------------