For this long distance race, the Scuderia Filipinetti had entered three cars:
2 a Matra MS 650 for Jean Guichet and Edgar Berney
72 a Ford GT40 für Brian Redman and Herbert Müller
112 a Mercedes entered in GT 1600+ for Hans Herrmann and Dieter Glemser
None of them started the race, and the Autosport report from July 25th revealed a more than strange story:
" A rather sick practical joke telegram had cancelled the Filipinetti Matra entry - Filipinetti involving Interpol to find the culprit, who had also cancelled his entries for Redman and Müller in the Ford 5-Litre and Herrmann in a G3 Mercedes. "
In Internet sources, the Matra and the Mercedes are listed as DNA, the Ford as DNS or DNP, What happened really?
It is interesting that neither Autosprint nor the German specialised press nor Ed Heuvink in his Filipinetti book mentioned anything about this weird story.
Does anyone know more?