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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #50 on: January 11, 2014, 05:08:21 AM »
The above is rubbish - Uria was from Uruguay. I still ask if it's Firpo?
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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #51 on: January 11, 2014, 06:38:57 AM »
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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #52 on: January 11, 2014, 06:39:44 AM »
Carlos Fortunati Firpo?
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So hold my answer above - could it be Alberto Uria?
No Uria and no Firpo...
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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #53 on: January 11, 2014, 07:13:51 AM »
...There was no BA GP in 1953...
???
I have found
1953 -
18 January - Argentine GP, Buenos Aires where the car could have competed if it had been re-engined (A6G or enlarged 4CL with the supercharger removed)
1 February - Gran Premio de la  Ciudad de Buenos Aires
1954 -
17 January - Argentine GP, Buenos Aires - It's unlikely that it would have been entered that late
31 January - Gran Premio de la  Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Starting with the least likely, was it the 1953 Argentine GP ?
and could the driver be Jorge Daponte, who is listed as running in the 1954 GP but not 1953
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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #54 on: January 11, 2014, 07:22:14 AM »
My previous source of information did not provide results for a 1953 BA GP so I assumed that it was not held that year. I was obviously wrong. The answer to the puzzle is - Remo Gamalero.

He was born in Genoa, died in Spain, but lived and raced in Argentina. He rented the car for the race (it is called the Argentine GP on a website, but I think it is the 1953 Buenos Aires GP which was a Formula Libra race), and it is claimed that the car was a Maserati 4CLT 1.5-litre supercharged. I still don't agree with that, but it doesn't matter any more!

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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #55 on: January 11, 2014, 07:25:16 AM »
Here's a photo of a standard Maserati 4CLT - note the exhaust pipe (single) and the shape of the air intake.
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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #56 on: January 11, 2014, 07:30:34 AM »
And just to be a nuisance, here's an early Maserati A6GCM with the 2-litre 6-cylinder engine and two exhausts. Note the larger air intake.

It's all a bit odd. I reckon the car raced by Gamalero had been modified in Argentina in some way.
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Re: MPC#024
« Reply #57 on: January 11, 2014, 09:08:19 AM »
My previous source of information did not provide results for a 1953 BA GP so I assumed that it was not held that year. I was obviously wrong. The answer to the puzzle is - Remo Gamalero.

He was born in Genoa, died in Spain, but lived and raced in Argentina. He rented the car for the race (it is called the Argentine GP on a website, but I think it is the 1953 Buenos Aires GP which was a Formula Libra race), and it is claimed that the car was a Maserati 4CLT 1.5-litre supercharged. I still don't agree with that, but it doesn't matter any more!

Great puzzle - thank you. More please!
That's it!  :applause:
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Re: MPC#024 - Solved - Remo Gamalero on a modified Maserati 4CLT
« Reply #58 on: January 11, 2014, 09:11:35 AM »
picture and caption...
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Re: MPC#024 - Solved - Remo Gamalero on a modified Maserati 4CLT
« Reply #59 on: January 11, 2014, 10:36:51 AM »
My poor Italian translation tells me that says "old and rather modified", which is absolutely true! The 4CLT was really obsolete by then.
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Re: MPC#024 - Solved - Remo Gamalero on a modified Maserati 4CLT
« Reply #60 on: January 11, 2014, 12:48:01 PM »
My poor Italian translation tells me that says "old and rather modified", which is absolutely true! The 4CLT was really obsolete by then.
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