We love this portrait of the Italian driver Felice Bonetto, taken before the Bari Grand Prix for F2 cars which was held on June 12, 1949. Bari is a city on the southern part of Italy’s Adriatic coast and the circuit was a temporary street circuit which ran along the sea coast, around the western part of the city center and was called the Circuito del Lungomare. 
Ferrari together with some private entrants had brought a slew of cars, mostly the two-liter 166F2 versions of their 1949 single seater chassis. The rest of the field at Bari was made up of three Maserati A6GCS sports cars, a Cisitalia D46, a privately-owned Ferrari, an OSCA and a Stanguelini. Here is Bonetto during the race in the Ferrari 166 Corsa F2.
Scuderia Ferrari had officially entered four cars plus Bonetto’s for which he was the entrant although the car 
was probably loaned by the Scuderia. Below are the Ferrari starters. N. 8 in the yellow and blue of Argentina was the one started by Chico Landi and subsequently taken over by Luigi Villoresi after his car (n. 2) had failed. Together, they would finish fourth. N. 14 will be driven by Alberto Ascari who will win the race after a long duel with Bonetto and Franco Cortese who would finish second with car n. 12. Bonetto had n. 20 and would finish third.
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HOW NICE TO
BE REMINDED
OF MR
CORRADO
,MILLANTA
AND HIS
REPORTS
FOR ROAD
AND TRACK
MAGAZINE
IN THAT
PERIOD.
I TRULY
ENVIED
HIS TRAVELS
IN HIS LANCIA
AND TO COVER
ALL THOSE
EVENTS
AND ALSO
RECALL HE
MENTIONED
THAT
CHICO LANDI
HAD
ARRIVED BY
TRAIN AND
WON THE
RACE, WHICH
STRUCK ME
AS BIT ODD
AT THE TIME.
ALSO AT
THE TIME
IN SUMMER
OF 1949
EACH WEEK
A REPORT
FROM
ENGLAND
OF FANGIO
AND HIS
WINNING
WAY, AND
THEIIR RUNNING’
OUT OF
ADJETIVES
TO DESCRIBE
HIS PHONOMINAL DRIVING TECHNIQUE
THANK YOU
SIR FOR STIRING
UP THAT
OLD MEMORY.
JIM SITZ
OREGON
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