Shows how quickly Ferrari could rebuild a badly damaged car - I have just seen photos I cannot post here which show frantic efforts to extract the apparently unconscious driver, the car having apparently rolled over and back onto its wheels, then crashed backwards into a trackside bank. Its right-side and especially the right-rear have taken the brunt of impact, while the roof is crushed down at the rear and tented around the windscreen area. I must say, poor old Garant did not look at all well...
When Ernesto Prinoth's GTO rolled at Monza in the 1964 Coppa InterEuropa it wound-up inverted amongst the shrubbery. From photos of that car's extraction from the boondocks amongst which it had landed it seems that the Monza recovery team coupled up a Jeep and simply dragged the car out, upside down, which then collapsed its roof. Prinoth emerged unhurt.
Ferrari and Prinoth between them then had that car raceworthy again within three weeks and one week later still he won his class with it and finished 2nd overall in the aerodrome races at Innsbruck. That is the GTO which sold to Fabrizio Violati the following year, and that's the one with which I have been working recently, and which is coming up for sale at Quail Lodge, California, next month. Both the GTOs and their drivers were plainly extremely resilient old warriors...
DCN
Edited by Doug Nye, 26 July 2014 - 20:57.