Vernasca Silver Flag Hillclimb 2011 – Photo Gallery Continued
One of several Abarth prototypes present, this is Christophe Pont in an ex-Merzario 3-liter V8.
Another 3-liter V8 Abarth, Robert Fehlmann’s ex-Anatoly Arutunoff car.
Ed McDonough was driving Pietro Silva’s super-quick 1968 Abarth 2000 SP SE010, the 250 bhp car raced by Ed Wart in period.
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- Period single seaters fight for the advantage at Lugagnano in front of the very bar into which a car crashed in the early 1970s, ending the event!
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- The Ferrari 275GTB/C of Joel Humbert raced at Le Mans, the Targa Florio and Monza. It still bears the scars of a crash at Monza where it still managed to finish in 1966.
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- The ex-dePortago Ferrari works hard to get round the 90 degree corner in the center of Lugagnano.
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- This 1961 Lancia Flaminia Sport Zagato of Carlo Ricasoli once belonged to actor Marcello Mastroianni and appeared in La Dolce Vita.
Ed McDonough again, this time in the rare 1951 DB Panhard Monomille with 850 cc engine belonging to Italian Gianni Codiferro.
The rare Ferraris were driven with considerable verve!
Alfa Romeo Museo Storico stalwarts Paola Lanati and Alessandro Rigoni with the Museum’s Disco Volante.
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- Giovanni Bottaretto’s 1972 De Tomaso Pantera has race history, including Le Mans, Spa 1000KM and the Giro d’Italia in the hands of Mario Casoni.
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- Paddock and course marshalling is done by historic polizia and carabinieri teams in Alfa Romeos including this Giulia a la The Italian Job and a 156.
Dieter Roschmann also brought his ex-Scuderia Montjuich Ferrari 512M which raced at Le Mans in 1970.
Corrado Cupellini’s Ferrari Dino 156 was raced from 1957 to 1960 by Luigi Musso, Olivier Gendebien, Phil Hill, Jean Behra and Wolfgand von Trips.
The Silver Flag is a real road course! This is Giorgio Lotteri’s 1956 Ermini 1100cc Spider.
[Source: Ed McDonough; photo credit: Peter Collins/Ed McDonough]
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