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[Darren Galpin]

The Trieste-Opicina hillclimb, won by Tazio Nuvolari in the early 1930s. I've had an enquiry about this event, and I don't have much information on this. I'm looking for results, stories, track map etc etc. Not much really......... Can anyone help?

[Milan Fistonic]

Count Lurani has the date of the event as June 15, 1930.

[alessandro silva]

June 15th, 1930
1. Nuvolari, Alfa Romeo, 5.59"4
2. Mario Mazzacurati, Bugatti, 6'19"4
3. Arturo Polllini, Alfa Romeo, 6'26"2
average 95.158 kmh.
length: 9.5 km
21 classified

[Hans Etzrodt]

The Trieste-Opicina event near Triest, Italy was held for the first time in 1911. Otto Hironymus in a Laurin & Klement racing car went up the 7.400 km climb in 6m07.4s.

Emilio Richetti (Bugatti 2.0 racing car) won in 1926 on a 9.500 km climb in 7m50.0s.

1927, on a 9.500 km climb, Ettore Franchetti (Diatto 2600 racer) won in 7m29.0s.

1928, the fourth race on a 9.500 km climb, was won by Ermenegildo Strazza (Lancia Lambda touring car) in 7m50.4s.

1929, Achille Varzi (1750 SS Alfa Romeo) won on a 13.500 km long climb in 9m43.6s.

1930, Nuvolari (Alfa Romeo P2 GP car) again on a 9.500 km climb, went up in 5m59.4s, breaking the 1927 record. This had been his first race with the Scuderia Ferrari. But he had driven the P2 Alfa before for Alfa Corse, when he won the Royal Rome Grand Prix.

[dmj]

Amazing. I never knew about any actual hillclimb there but I know the road and it certainly can make a good hillclimb course.

[Udo K.]

Trieste-Opicina 6th Oct. 1957 - 7th round of the "Campionato Italiano Sport"
Class winners:
1100ccm: Luciano Mantovani OSCA S950
1500ccm: Domenico Lo Coco OSCA MT4
2000ccm: Adolfo Tedeschi Maserati 200 S

5th Oct. 1958 - 11th round of the championship (last round)
750ccm. Sesto Leonardi OSCA S750
1100ccm: Ludovico Scarfiotti OSCA S1100
1500ccm: Giulio Cabianca OSCA F2/S1500
2000ccm: Mennato Boffa Maserati 200S

Leonardi, Scarfiotti ans Cabianca won the respective championships.

24th July 1960 - 9th round of the championship
850ccm: Gianfranco Stanga OSCA S750
1150ccm: Danilo Tesini Lotus 11
1600ccm: Gianni Brichetti OSCA S1500
2000ccm: Mennato Boffa Maserati T60

Above race seems to be the last one held there, at least it was not included in the Italian championship any longer.

If anybody has more details, please let us know.

[Marcor]

Date of the 1930 edition: my sources also mentioned 15 June and won by Tazio Nuvolari. Two weeks later Tazio won another Mountainclimb race at Cuneo - Maddalena (66.5 km, second round of the new European Mountain championship) with the same Alfa Romeo P2.

[Milan Fistonic]

Nuvolari also won the Vittorio-Cansiglio hill-climb on July 13, 1930 and was second in the Consuma Cup hill-climb on October 12 of the same year.

His record in hill-climbs in the following years was:

1931
Feruaryb 15 Verona-Boscochiesanova 1st (Alfa-Romeo)
June 28 Pontedecimo-Giovi 1st (Alfa-Romeo) tied with Ghersi (Maserati)
October 4 Consuma Cup 1st (Alfa-Romeo)

1932
June 19 Pontedecimo-Giovi 1st in unlimited class (Alfa Romeo)
August 28 Stelvio 2nd in unlimited class, 4th overall (Alfa-Romeo)

From Count Lurani's book Nuvolari.

[David McKinney]

Hah!
Just when you thought the info had petered out....
1911
04/06
1 Otto Heironymus (Laurin-Klement)

1926
26/06
1 EmilioRichetti (Bugatti 2.0)
2 Malani (Alfa Romeo)
3 Ferruga (Alfa Romeo)

1927
19/07
1 Ettore Franchetti (Diatto 2.6)
2 Ermegildo Strazza (Lancia)
3 Maiani (Bugatti 2.0)

1928
30/09
1 Ermegildo Strazza (Lancia Lambda)
2 Luigi Gagliardini (Fiat 508)
3 Alberto Bettini (Alfa Romeo)

1929
16/06
1 Achille Varzi (Alfa Romeo)
2 Ermegildo Strazza (Lancia Lambda)
3 Arrigo Sartorio (Alfa Romeo)

1930
15/06
1 Tazio Nuvolari (Alfa Romeo)
2 Mario Mazzacuratti (Bugatti)
3 Arturo Pollini (Alfa Romeo)

1931
14/06
1 Luigi Catalani (Alfa Romeo)
2 Carraresi (Alfa Romeo)
3 Mario Tadini (Alfa Romeo)

1932
12/06
1 Luigi Catalani (Alfa Romeo 1750)
2 Luigi Giannini (Alfa Romeo 1750)
3 Arturo Pollini (Alfa Romeo 1750)

1939
25/06
1 Guido Kozmann (Lancia Aprilia)
2 Emilio Schoss (Lancia Aprilia)
3 Attilio Tommasi (Lancia Aprilia)
a round in the ‘Volante d’Argento’, which I think was restricted to Aprilias, or at least to saloons

1948
date unknown
1 Alberto Comirato (Fiat 1100)
2 Alfredo Tinazzo (Giannini 750)
3 Alberto Keller (BMW)

1950
29/10
1 Giulio Cabianca (OSCA 1350)
2 Antonio Stagnoli (Ferrari 166)
3 Paolo Marzotto (Ferrari 166)

1951
23/09
1 Umberto Marzotto (Ferrari 215)
2 Giulio Cabianca (OSCA)
3 Cesare Cabianca (OSCA)

1952
15/06
1 Petro Palmieri (Ferrari 225)
2 Franco Bordoni (OSCA 1100)
3 Raffaele Caraceni (Ferrari 215)

1953
21/06
1 Franco Cornacchia (Ferrari 250)
2 Gerino Gerini (Ferrari 215)
3 Ettore Contini (Lancia Aurelia)

1954
20/06
1 Franco Bordoni (Gordini 3.0)
2 Gerino Gerini (Ferrari 250)
3 Primo Pezzoli (Ferrari 250)

1955
26/06
1 Franco Bordoni (Maserati 300S)
2 Gino Valenzano (Maserati)
3 Attilio Buffa (Maserati)

1957
06/10
1 Adolfo Tedeschi (Maserati 2.0)
2 Luciano Mantovani (OSCA 1100)
3 Franco Bordoni (Maserati 200S)

1958
05/10
1 Ada Pace (Alfa Romeo Giulietta Z)
2 Giuliano Giovanardi (Ferrai 3.0)
3 Carlo Peroglio (Alfa Romeo Giulietta Z)

1959
26/07
1 Giulio Cabianca (OSCA 1500)
2 Edoardo Lualdi (OSCA 2.0)
3 Odoardo Govoni (Maserati 2.0)

1960
24/07
1 Mennato Boffa (Maserati 2.0)
2 Odoardo Govoni (Maserati 2.0)
3 Carlo Mario Abate (Maserati 2.0)

1961
23/07
1 Edoardo Lualdi (Ferrari 3.0)
2 Mennato Boffa (Maserati 2.0)
3 Pietro Ferraro (Ferrari)

1962
22/07
1 Edoardo Lualdi (Ferrari 250GT)
2 Ernesto Prinoth (Lotus FJ)
3 Ada Pace (Ferrari 250GT)
NOTE: Odoardo Govoni (Cooper FJ) disqualified from FTD

1963
21/07
1 Francesco Ghezzi (Lotus FJ)
2 Bruno Deserti (Lotus FJ)
3 Guglielmo Bassi (Lotus FJ)

1964
19/07
1 Franco Patria (Abarth 2.0)
2 Ernesto Prinoth (Ferrari)
3 Hans Herrmann (Abarth 2.0)

1965
18/07
1 Edoardo Lualdi (Ferrari 250LM)
2 “Matich” (Abarth 2.0)
3 Alfonso Brini (Abarth 2.0)

1966
31/07
1 “Noris” (Porsche Carrera 2.0)
2 Edoardo Lualdi (Ferrari Dino)
3 Francesco Ghezzi (Brabham F3)
(My records don’t go beyond 1966)

[Darren Galpin]

Thanks everyone. Does anyone have a map, or can anyone tell me the road number and the start and finish points so I can dig out a road map?