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Richie Ginther surveys the damage he has inflicted upon his factory Ferrari during the 1960 Targa weekend…

The local kiddo’s are either surveying the scene with sympathy or thinking about what they can liberate from Enzo’s nice, new red car!

In fact the shot is a bit of a mystery upon doing a bit more research.

The Ferrari drivers were reshuffled after several accidents in practice of which this seems to be one as it isn’t the car in which Richie started the race with Cliff Allison. That was the #202 de-Dion rear axled TR59/60 pictured below; and in which Richie went off line passing a car and smote a tree a fatal blow for the car on lap 5.

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Cliff Allison before the Targa start in the 250 Testa Rossa shared with Richie Ginther (unattributed)

Allison himself had a huge ‘character building’ accident in practice when a tyre failed in the Ferrari TRI/60 (independent rear suspension Testa Rossa) he was scheduled to share with Phil Hill.

So, the question is what model Ferrari is the one pictured at the articles outset? It looks as if it may have side-draft Webers, is it an old Monza ‘praps? One for you Ferrari experts.

The race was won by the Jo Bonnier/Hans Herrmann Porsche 718 RS60 a much more nimble conveyance around this circuit than the 3 litre V12 front-engined Fazz…

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Graham Hill sitting in Jo Bonnier’s winning Porsche 718 RS60, Graham was cross-entered in the car. Don’t bend it Graham please! Hill was 5th is a similar car shared with Edgar Barth (unattributed)

Credit…

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Comments
  1. Gábor SZ says:

    It looks like a 750 Monza, but according to racingsportscars.com, no Monza did participate in the 1960 event. Maybe the first picture is not from the same year as the following two.

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