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1954 Pescara Grand Prix

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1954 Pescara Grand Prix
Race details
Date 15 August 1954
Official name XXIII Circuito di Pescara
Location Pescara Circuit
Course Temporary road course
Course length 25.60 km (15.96 miles)
Distance 16 laps, 409.60 km (255.36 miles)
Pole position
Driver Maserati
Time 10:23.0
Fastest lap
Driver Thailand B. Bira Maserati
Time 10:46.39
Podium
First Maserati
Second Maserati
Third Maserati

The 23rd Circuito di Pescara was a Formula One motor race, held on 15 August 1954, at the Pescara Circuit in Abruzzo, Italy. Luigi Musso in a Maserati 250F scored his first Formula 1 victory. B. Bira (Maserati 250F) and Harry Schell (Maserati A6GCM) were second and third, with Bira setting fastest lap. Stirling Moss in yet another 250F started from pole position but retired after 3 laps with a broken oil pipe.[1][2]

Results

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Pos No Driver Entrant Car Time/Retired Grid
1 8 Italy Luigi Musso Officine Alfieri Maserati Maserati 250F 2:55:54.51, 139.15kph 5
2 20 Thailand B. Bira Prince Bira Maserati 250F +2:57.05 9
3 24 United States Harry Schell Harry Schell Maserati A6GCM +6:48.29 8
4 26 Argentina Jorge Daponte J. Daponte Maserati A6GCM +1 lap 12
5 16 France Jean Behra Equipe Gordini Gordini Type 16 +2 laps 4
6 2 Argentina Clemar Bucci Equipe Gordini Gordini Type 16 +6 laps 3
Ret France Louis Rosier Equipe Rosier Ferrari 500 9 laps 7
Ret 18 United Kingdom Stirling Moss Officine Alfieri Maserati Maserati 250F 3 laps, oil pipe 1
Ret 14 Italy Berardo Taraschi B. Taraschi Ferrari 166 3 laps, mechanical 11
Ret Belgium Jacques Swaters Ecurie Francorchamps Ferrari 500 2 laps, mechanical 13
Ret France André Guelfi Equipe Gordini Gordini Type 16 1 lap, fire 10
Ret France Robert Manzon Equipe Rosier Ferrari 625 1 lap, engine 2
DNS Italy Umberto Maglioli Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari 553 6
DNA Italy Sergio Mantovani Officine Alfieri Maserati Maserati 250F
DNA Argentina Roberto Mieres R. Mieres Maserati 250F

References

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  1. ^ "1954 Non-World Championship Grands Prix". Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  2. ^ "XXIII Circuito di Pescara 1954". Retrieved 2022-05-19.


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