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REAL TRACK
Track Location: El Cairo, Egypt
Track Type : Street Circuit
Track Lenght : 1.48 kms.-0.91 mil.
Track Num. Turns : 6
Track Year : 1947
Track Editor : Sergio Loro
Special Thanks to :
Remy for the replay file!!!
EL CAIRO 1947
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The race was held on a twisty track laid in El Gezirah, a small island on the Nile in Cairo's residential district. Only 6000 spectators showed up on a sunny day, mostly sitting on the top rows of the stands, leaving the bottom ones unoccupied, probably by fear; the cars wore race numbers also in Arabic on the right side of the tail. After heats won by Cortese and Taruffi, ten cars qualified for the final. Taruffi started in front from Cortese, Dusio and Ascari who overtook Dusio after ten laps. Towards the end of the race the nuts fixing the carburettor in Taruffi's car got loose and he had to slow down and was passed by Cortese and Ascari. Cortese won and was awarded a cup of solid gold presented to him by King Farouk in person.
Race Table [4],[5]:
Sehab Almaz Bey Trophy
• March 9th, 1947
• El Gezirah (Cairo), Egypt
• 2 heats: 25 laps x 1.480 km = 37.5 km, final 50 laps = 75 km
• Monotype race for Cisitalia D46
• Weather: sunny
• Spectators: 6000
• 16 starters
Results:
Heat 1
1. Franco Cortese, 25 laps in 23:24,4, 96,147 km/h
2. Piero Dusio, 23:30,8
3. Mario Tadini, 24:14,2
4. Nello Pagani, 24:33
5. Ciro Basadonna, 24:38
6. Omobono Tenni
7. Giovanni Lurani
• DNF: Raymond de Saugé, accident
Heat 2
1. Piero Taruffi, 25 laps in 23:05,6, 97,451 km/h
2. Alberto Ascari, 23:27,6
3. Dorino Serafini, 23:28,9
4. Sergio Banti, 23:43
5. Pietro Ghersi, 24:44
6. Antonio Brivio
7. ... Marinotti
• DNF: Louis Chiron, oil leak
Final
1. Franco Cortese, 50 laps in 45:49,3, 98,2 km/h
2. Alberto Ascari, 46:02,1
3. Piero Taruffi, 46:03,3
4. Pietro Dusio, 46:04,4
5. Mario Tadini
6. Ciro Basadonna
7. Dorino Serafini
Fastest lap: Piero Taruffi, 51", 108.112 (?)
• DNF: Nello Pagani
• DNF: Sergio Banti
• DNF: Pietro Ghersi
While the drivers were lavishly entertained by the Egyptian court and thoroughly enjoyed their trip, the event was a financial desaster. Dusio's Swiss partners backed off not seeing any future in this kind of racing and he had to pay them out digging deeply into his personal assets. His company never recovered from this financial loss: when the production of the series of 500 202 GT cars, where most of the company assets were invested, proved to be too slow making its costs excessive, Dusio had no more money to invest to try to save the situation. At this time, apparently, most of the existing D46s were sold: in France de Saugé's car was joined by two bought by Lucy O'Reilly, one by Boyer, two by Loyer and "Robert" to be raced under the Ecurie de Paris banner, and one by Robert Manzon, who considered the D46 the appropriate car to train his considerable skills. In Switzerland at least four cars were sold besides Basadonna's and raced privately or for Ecurie Autosport and Ecurie Helvetia. Stuck used one D46 in the first afterwar races in Germany, winning with it the very first one: the 1947 Maipokalrennen in Hockenheim. In Britain the D46 was not raced until 1949, by former Magnette driver Frank Kerrington. In Italy Scuderia Ambrosiana raced at least two and sometimes more cars, two went to Rome to gifted amateurs Bernabei and Venturi, two to Biella for Scuderia Biellese with Grolla and Porrino as drivers and others to less known individual entrants.
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All people who made the tools to create tracks, 3dos, mips, lp files, altitudes, etc, etc.
All Gpl Community!!!
Enjoy it drive...
Sergio Loro
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