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Alfa’s missed opportunity

12. Dec 2024 
by Ziv Knoll
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Clay Regazzoni speeds through a Sicilian village, in his impressive Alfa Romeo T33/TT/12 that he shares with Carlo Facetti during practice for the 1973 Targa Florio. The pairing, one of the favourites of the event, will have an accident during this practice session and will not be able to start the race.

This 1973 edition of the Targa Florio was meant to be a duel between Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, with Porsche as an outsider. Ferrari entered two 312 PB’s for Redman-Ickx and for Merzario-Vaccarella, but both cars failed to see the finish. Alfa Romeo (Autodelta) entered two T33’s for Regazzoni-Facetti (DNS) and for Stommelen-de Adamich (DNF).

Herbert Müller and Gijs van Lennep drove their Martini Racing Porsche Carrera RSR flawlessly and won the race ahead of the works Lancia Stratos of Sandro Munari and Jean-Claude Andruet (picture-below). Porsche thus took a prestigious victory in the Sicily mountains, while Lancia could only be satisfied with this excellent result.

 

 

Source: LAT Images

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