
Ascari III
#1
Posted 06 September 2000 - 20:39
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#2
Posted 06 September 2000 - 21:35
from a fast inspection of the index of drivers (that finally came today, together with the second volume of FJunior records, as Don said) it doesn´t appear any Ascari on them...and it is supposed to cover 1958 to 1964 races, and around 800 drivers...
:-(
#3
Posted 06 September 2000 - 22:51
#4
Posted 07 September 2000 - 04:53
#5
Posted 07 September 2000 - 05:21
Your memory is not playing tricks.
Ascari III (and I can't remember if he was Antonio or Alberto, but it was one of those) did at least intend to race. I remember reading about his going to England to work as a race mechanic, with a view to getting into racing.
It must have been early 1970s. I think he was about 20 at the time.
I was keen to follow his progress but never heard any more about him.
The quote "against his mother's wishes" seems to ring a bell, perhaps a combination of finding how hard it was and knowing his mother's fears might have persuaded him to give it away.
Three or four years ago I was talking to a friend in the Ferrari team at the Australian Grand Prix and one of the mechanics came along with "--- Ascari" embroidered on his overalls.
I asked was he related to Alberto. He lit up like a beacon and he said yes, he was, then added a little forlornly "but only distantly".
#6
Posted 07 September 2000 - 05:25
I like to think I'm not broken down by sex and age. So far, I seem to have benefitted from both. But who knows how long that might last?
#7
Posted 07 September 2000 - 05:27
Have I missed something here?
This index of drivers and two volumes of Formula Junior records - can you tell me more?
I have an obsession for collecting results and information on all forms of racing - no matter what the language.
You must have mentioned it somewhere that I have overlooked.
#8
Posted 07 September 2000 - 05:32
I just answered my own question again.
I found your mention on the Formula Junior thread and had already asked the question.
I must try to track down the FJ book.
#9
Posted 07 September 2000 - 05:38
#10
Posted 07 September 2000 - 06:02
I, too, seem to recall something from a pommie magazine as Barry mentions, but the details escape me. In fact, it had all escaped me until I read Barry's post.
#11
Posted 07 September 2000 - 07:04
'The F3 Foglietti was a petite, clean-lined car, but that was almost the norm for the mid-1960s. In this photograph the driver is possibly of more interest for he is Antonio Ascari Jr, 'Tonino', son of Alberto, in his only serious season of single-seater racing.'
It was also reported in 'Motoring News' around 1963 or 1964 that Antonio Ascari Jr had enrolled at the Piero Taruffi Racing School.
#12
Posted 07 September 2000 - 07:11
And still this BB pulls up info from all sources, thanks for posting, Francis, don't forget to come in regularly, your posting average is too low for someone who clearly has information that can help others out...
#13
Posted 07 September 2000 - 08:08
I remember an interesting book on Formula Junior: Orsini. Formula junior. Ed. de L'Automobile around 1968. It had complete results of all Italian and international FJ races plus some of the British ones and a complete technical description of all cars.
May I have a complete bibliographical information about drivers indexes?
#14
Posted 07 September 2000 - 19:34
« Tonino », the son of Alberto, made 3 seasons in F3 but to his family’s satisfaction (especially his mother) would rather move towards the sale of cars and motorbikes.
Guest in 1964 to the Argentine Temporada, « Tonino » Ascari took his seat in a Sports car Maserati driven by Juan Manuel Fangio with Jose Froilan Gonzales as co-driver. They made an honour lap. Through the son, the two famous champions would pay tribute publicly to their former friend, rival or team mate, Antonio Ascari.
(taken and translated from Auto passion, Tribute to Alberto Ascari)
#15
Posted 07 September 2000 - 20:34
Finally, Alberto's son, Tonino Ascari:- Although there were toy cars and photographs of his father in his bedroom in Corsa Sempione, Tonino had never seen his father race. In 1960, aged 18, Mietta sent him to Coventry, England, where he worked for Jaguars and learned to speak English. Returning to Milan, he got a job working in Gigi Villoresi's Innocenti-Mini Agency. Then he became involved with the building of racing cars for the Formula Junior 1,000 C.C. class, cars made by local constructors such as Stanguellini and Foglietti.
"Starting by watching them being built, I naturally became interested in testing them, and then in racing them."
On August 2 1963, Tonino became 21 years old and inherited a sum of money. Against his mother's wishes, (his grandmother, Eliza, had died three years before), some 27 days later, on August 29, he drove a Formula Junior car belonging to Angelo Dagrada, round Monza - the track so well known to his father and grandfather. By October he was attending the school course for drivers at the Vallelunga Autodrome near Rome, driving a 2.5 liter Ferrari. One month later, Tonino was up at Modena Autodrome, taking racing lessons in a 2 liter, two-seater Cooper-Maserati sportscar from his father's old rival, Piero Taruffi, whose idea it had been to create a little stable of young pilots - the Scuderia Centro-Sud. Also taking lessons was Farina's nephew.
On April 15 1964, Enzo Vigorelli announced that Tonino Ascari would race for two years with a Foglietti-Holbay Formula Three car under the colors of the Scuderia Madunina. That year, Tonino Ascari became Overall Champion of Italy in Formula 3, whilst Formula 2 Champion was a promising newcomer called Ernesto Brambilla.
"My participation in motor-racing," Tonino has recalled, "came from my own personal curiosity; that is, I experimented, enjoyed it, was amused by it and it gave me valid sensations. I raced for three years, then left the sport so that I could devote more time to an agency that myself and a friend were building up selling Italian and Japanese motorcycles.
"When I started, the Press at once decided to dub me, "The New Ascari", "The Third Ascari", and to expect big things of me. But you don't suddenly become a champion in only three years. It's necessary to break cars, to win races and to pass from one Class up to the next. And in fact, it is true that I found it hard to exist under the two, strong shadows of my grandfather and father. If I were to succeed, people would say that it was not because I was better than the others, but because I was my father's son. If I were to fail, then the dynasty was finished and the grandson should not have attempted to continue it.
"Then there was something else. Unfortunately I found a sponsor extremely interested in exploiting my name for publicity and other motives. As I did not want my name to be used by someone else for profit, I left the sport, never having accepted sponsorship. Had I had my own money, I would perhaps have continued racing. I also left the anxieties of motor-sport when I realized that they were of relative unimportance."
Tom
#16
Posted 07 September 2000 - 20:46
(That reminds me that Leif did insist a couple of days ago on the "need" to read The Man with two Shadows...)
And of course, thanks Roger for the idea...
Barry, whilst of course anything that you might need from my copies of the FJ registers is at your entire disposal (is that construction right in English? Anyway, you know what I mean) I got them from the people at Chaters, UK.
They have a website, but I usually deal with them over the phone. The guys called Sean and/or Eddie will help you, no doubt. :-)
Alessandro: "May I have a complete bibliographical information about drivers indexes?"
Sorry, what does that mean?
:-)
Felix
#17
Posted 07 September 2000 - 22:43
#18
Posted 08 September 2000 - 18:44
FelixOriginally posted by Felix Muelas
Barry, anything that you might need from my copies of the FJ registers is at your entire disposal :-)
Felix
Thanks for the offer. I will keep it in mind whenever I need something from that era. I have just bought all the subsequent F3 books by The Formula 1 Register (five of them), so some day I might turn up the Formula Junior one as well.
I have bought books from Chaters, UK in the past. Their prices used to be very good at the shop, but they seem to have gone sky high since they have gone on the web.
Barry
#19
Posted 12 September 2000 - 22:09
Originally posted by tombe
From Kevin Desmond's "The Man with Two Shadows":
On April 15 1964, Enzo Vigorelli announced that Tonino Ascari would race for two years with a Foglietti-Holbay Formula Three car under the colors of the Scuderia Madunina. That year, Tonino Ascari became Overall Champion of Italy in Formula 3...
OK, question: can someone confirm that statement concerning Ascari as "Overall Champion of Italy F3 1964"?
Because honestly, and after reading the Foglietti lines on the Hodges book, I do have the sensation that something does not match here...
Thanks :-)
Felix
PS : Where is Karlcars? ;-)
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#20
Posted 15 September 2000 - 18:24
#21
Posted 15 September 2000 - 20:38
Delighted to hear those news. I will be ordering my copy on Monday so that as soon as it´s available I will get one.
Regardless of that, is there any info on this other Ascari that you could share with us on this thread or should we wait to read the book? ;-)
Thanks
Felix Muelas
#22
Posted 30 November 2000 - 13:29
27 September 1964
Coppa dell'Autodromo di Monza (Formula 3)
No 36 Scuderia Madunini - Antonio Ascari - Foglietti
10th in Heat 1
12th in Final
No other mentions of him in F3 races that year.
27 May 1965
Gran Premio EBF Vigorelli, Monza (Formula 3)
No 2 Scuderia Madunini - Antonio Ascari - Pygmee
More than 80 entries
No mention of Ascari in heats or final.
No other mentions of him in F3 races that year.
01 May 1966
Gran Premio EBF Vigorelli, Monza (Formula 3)
No 39 Antonio Ascari - Antonio Ascari - Lotus-Ford
(three times 13! for an Ascari!)
Retired from heat with mechanical trouble.
06 May 1966
Circuito del Lago di Garda, Salo (Formula 3)
N0 44 Antonio Ascari - no entrant or car mentioned.
Retired from heat with mechanical trouble.
No more mentions of Ascari during 1966.
It would appear Tonino didn't get enough laps to learn very much about motor racing.
#23
Posted 01 December 2000 - 00:53
#24
Posted 02 December 2000 - 05:06
At around the same time I saw some others listed (oddly, filling some of my gaps, but duplicating none and with no apparent pattern to them) but they were sold before I got to them.
What I would like to have is a complete list of everything Sheldon has produced, so I know what I am chasing.
Does anyone have such a thing?
#25
Posted 02 December 2000 - 09:56
Ooops, just checked and the link isn't up yet. We'll get it sorted.
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Posted 02 December 2000 - 21:25
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Posted 01 January 2001 - 20:03

#29
Posted 02 January 2001 - 07:16
In any case, below is the message that goes with it.
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I once mentioned that I buy what I call "second rate" motor racing books, or "pot boilers" because they so often have photos in them that you won't see anywhere else - sometimes they are historically important.
Recently I bought "Ferrari Racing A Pictorial History" by Colin Goodwin, merely because it was on sale at a very reasonable price.
The book has an odd collection of photographs, some of which have been seen many times before, some that are unusual. The captions are at best light weight, at worst inaccurate and misleading.
But I found some interesting photos, including one of Alberto Ascari in a Ferrari GP car with a boy beside him in a pedal car. My guess is that it is Tonino Ascari at about age eight.
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Posted 16 January 2001 - 21:59
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Posted 17 January 2001 - 19:56
#32
Posted 26 August 2008 - 09:53
He was born on August 2nd 1942.
#33
Posted 26 August 2008 - 10:41
#34
Posted 26 August 2008 - 13:36
#35
Posted 26 August 2008 - 17:15

Thanks, Alessandro, for remembering him!
#36
Posted 30 March 2013 - 12:28
No 36 Scuderia Madunini
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Who was behind that team?
#37
Posted 30 March 2013 - 13:25
Scuderia Madunina, Looking for pilotes anciens
Scuderia Madunina/Cuba Grand Prix
#38
Posted 30 March 2013 - 14:12
Broken down by sex and age?
Well I have been, what about you?