FERRARIS RACING AT BACHELOR PARTY!
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Bad Day at Indianapolis Ferrari Photos courtesy of Dale LaFollette.
Motor Racing June 1956 The two most interesting entries for Indianapolis in 1956 are the experimental car cylinder Bardahl Ferraris of six entries per BARDHAL Lubricants, Florence, Italy, with driving Farina, and 12 cylinders Special Ferrari engine, input by Marion Chinetti, New York, whose driver was not named.
Farina must qualify and must pass the test novice driver and his car will wear three stripes on his tail until he has passed the test here Farina is seen in the old V12.
Motor Racing July 1956 Thus, the foreign challenge came to nothing and Offenhauser Kurtis won the 1956 Indianapolis 500 mile race this year there was an additional interest in the prospects for this year's race because he thought that finally there was a real threat of Europe hopes were high as BARDHAL went a lot of trouble and made a determined effort to produce a car in collaboration with Ferrari and Maserati brothers, using the Kurtis chassis.
Farina prepare to try to qualify the Kurtis Ferrari Maserati OSCA.
Farina, however, was not the wisest choice of drivers, however, he spent his rookie test with the old April 5 liter V12 car that had failed to qualify in 1954 after Farina had completed the revolutions required at 125 mph was seen in the study of a large table with many thought to be a kind of a round table for a closer race, we found it was sailing boat table Italy.
The car has a chassis Bardahl American Kurtis Kraft, and 4-4 liter six-cylinder Ferrari.
The Ferrari Maserati Kurtis Bardahl OSCA failed to qualify because he could not muster enough power and was even slower than the old V12 Too spaghetti, not enough sauce, it was said, and that ended the attempt Indy European 1956.
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Bardahl has indeed sponsor the car from start to realize the dream of Farina race in Indianapolis The initial objective was the 1955 race, but there were delays at both ends Kurtis and Ferrari and Ferrari lost interest and turned the car on the Maserati Brothers for completion However, the Maseratis was past their eponymous company for years and were being OSCA execution, so that the description as Ferrari Maserati Kurtis OSCA Bardahl is incorrect.
Regarding the relative speed of 1954 375 Indy vs Bardahl Kurtis is pure speculation, as neither car made a qualifying race in 1956, Farina was late to the expressway and the time Farina was online, the rains came and he never made an attempt.
Like many road racers found over the years, Indy is a very special race Farina has never really shown any pace in the car and a virtually unknown driver, Earl Motter, took the car and was much faster than Farina Motter came to the fast track five times in the 1950s and has never managed to qualify would have been interesting to see what a more competent driver could have done with the car.
The car was restored by François Sicard and remains with Chinetti family.
Remember reading that Farina consult the corners as a route and do everything braking before entering, while the oval drivers sort of plunged into the same corner Farina has been said that the art of how to do, but he refused to listen, to be the former driver of the school route.
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