# 1962 Targa Florio

The 46° Targa Florio was a motor race which took place on 6 May 1962, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily, Italy. Ferraris placed first and second, with a Porsche finishing third. The race was part of the World Sportscar Championship as well as the Grand Touring championship.

## Race

Ferrari dominated most of the 1962 race, with a double victory for the team cars and with two privateers finishing fourth and fifth. Ferrari won both the sports car and the GT trophies, with Porsche winning the under two-liter GT category with a Carrera 1600. Porsche were trying out a new version of the 718, combining the two-litre boxer-eight (developed from the 1.5 litre engine used in the Formula 1 car, and also seen in testing for Le Mans 1961) with the new coupé bodywork which had thus far only been used with a four-cylinder engine. Worried about reliability, they had Count Volpi's Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia enter the two cars instead, which is why they were painted red. The second car was driven by Graham Hill and Dan Gurney, but the latter crashed it after a brake failure. The third-placed car also had brake problems as Porsche were still coming to grips with disc brakes.

## Official Classification

Class Winners are in Bold text.
| Pos | No | Class | Driver | Driver | Driver | Entrant | Chassis | Time |
| 1st | 152 | S3.0 | Willy Mairesse | Ricardo Rodriguez | Olivier Gendebien | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 246 SP | 7:02'56.3, 10 |
| 2nd | 120 | P3.0 | Giancarlo Baghetti | Lorenzo Bandini | | Scuderia Ferrari | Ferrari 196 SP | 7:14'24.0, 10 |
| 3rd | 108 | P2.0 | Joakim Bonnier | Nino Vaccarella | | Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia | Porsche 718 GTR Coupé | 7:17'20.0, 10 |
| 4th | 86 | GT3.0 | Giorgio Scarlatti | Pietro Ferraro | | San Marco | Ferrari 250 GTO | 7:22'08.0, 10 |
| 5th | 92 | GT3.0 | Roger de Lageneste | Jean Rolland | | | Ferrari 250 GT SWB | 7:44'33.0, 10 |
| 6th | 42 | GT1.6 | Hans Herrmann | Herbert Linge | | Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia | Porsche 356B Carrera Abarth GTL | 7:46'26.0, 10 |
| 7th | 14 | GT1.3 | Vito Coco | Salvatore Arena | | Scuderia Etna | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato | 7:50'36.0, 10 |
| 8th | 74 | GT2.5 | Piero Frescobaldi | Alessandro Federico | | Jolly Club | Lancia Flaminia Sport Zagato | 7:51'38.0, 10 |
| 9th | 56 | GT1.3 | Alfonso Thiele | Jean Guichet | | Scuderia Sant' Ambroeus | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato | 7:56'39.0, 10 |
| 10th | 44 | GT1.6 | Antonio Pucci | Edgar Barth | | Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia | Porsche 356B Carrera Abarth GTL | 8:00'05.0, 10 |
| 11th | 34 | GT1.3 | Giuseppe Virgilio | Giuseppe Sciacchitano | | Scuderia Etna | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Zagato | 8:07'05.0, 10 |
| 12th | 8 | GT1.3 | Francesco Susinno | Giulio Pernice | | Scuderia Etna | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 8:21'56.0, 10 |
| 13th | 52 | GT1.6 | Alfonso Vella | Pietro Termini | | Balarm | Porsche 356B Carrera | 8:22'50.0, 10 |
| 14th | 6 | GT1.3 | Girolamo Capra | Giuseppe Dalla Torre | | Scuderia Sant' Ambroeus | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 8:25'27.0, 10 |
| 15th | 4 | GT1.3 | Giancarlo Sala | Sergio Pedretti ("Kim") | | Scuderia Sant' Ambroeus | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 8:26'44.0, 10 |
| 16th | 40 | GT1.6 | Raffaello Ciarpaglini | Ottavio Prandoni | | Scuderia Ambrosiana | Porsche 356B Carrera Reutter | 8:39'13.3, 10 |
| 17th | 28 | GT1.3 | Angelo Bonaccorsi | Vito Sabbia | | Scuderia Etna | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 8:41'10.2, 10 |
| 18th | 10 | GT1.3 | Franco Tagliavia | Guido Garufi | | | Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce | 8:53'21.0, 10 |
| 19th | 82 | GT3.0 | Umberto de Bonis | Roberto Fusina | | | 250 GT California Spyder SWB | 8:55'56.2, 10 |
| 20th | 64 | GT2.0 | Giuseppe Ramirez | Luigi Ramirez | | | Lancia Aurelia B20 | 9:34'12.0, 10 |