From newspaper Il Mattino (Naples, Italy), issue of 20 May 1930, the story and the final standings of the Circuito Internazionale di Caserta, held on 18 May 1930.
It was a 12-lap race over a 25.370-kilometer (15.7-mile) public roads course around the town of Caserta, Italy.
Napolitan privateer Federico Caflisch took an outright win, beating all the works Alfa Romeo, OM and Maserati entries.
He took the lead in the early stages of the race in his Mercedes-Benz SS, before being involved in a fierce battle with Luigi Fagioli's Maserati, who had engine trouble during the penultimate lap. Caflisch finished first in 2h55min19.2, at an average speed of 104,189 km/h (64.75 mi/h), ahead of the likes of Archimede Rosa, second in an OM Tipo 665S “Superba” and Giuseppe Campari, third in a factory Alfa Romeo 6C-1750. Fagioli was classified fourth.
1930 - CIRCUITO DI CASERTA 304,8 Km
1 CAFLISCH Federico I Mercedes Benz SSK 2h55m19,2 - 104,189 km/h (first in class)
2 ROSA Archimede I OM 2300 2h56m48,6 (first in class)
3 CAMPARI Giuseppe I Alfa Romeo 1750 2h56m55 (first in class)
4 FAGIOLI Luigi I Maserati 3h02m38
5 CANTONO PaoloI I Alfa Romeo 1750 3h04m52
6 TADINI Mario I Alfa Romeo 1750 3h06m06
7 SIRIGNANO Francesco I Alfa Romeo 1750 3h09m56,4
8 BRIVIO Antonio I Alfa Romeo 1500 3h11m35 (first in class)
9 GAZZABINI Carlo I OM 2300 3h15m03
10 De TEFFE' Manuel BR Alfa Romeo 1750 3h18m26,3
11 PASTORE Giuseppe I Maserati 3h19m22
12 FACCHETTI Angelo I Itala 3h19m45
13 BERLINGERI Andrea I Itala 3h19m56
14 BIONDETTI Clemente I Bugatti 3h34m19
15 SORRENTINO Vincenzo I Alfa Romeo 1750 3h34m23
Edited by Nanni Dietrich, 25 September 2020 - 17:29.