In enemy territory

The 50th Targa Florio took place on 8 May 1966, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily (Italy). Nino Vaccarella and Lorenzo Bandini, the winners of the 1965 edition, started as favorites driving the powerful and beautiful, prototype-class Ferrari 330P3 (picture below).

Indeed, they were leading, until two laps from the end, a misunderstanding while lapping a slower car resulted in the 330 driven by Bandini, sliding off the road. This paved the way of the victory for the factory-backed Scuderia Filipinetti-entered Porsche 906 of Herbert Müller and Willy Mairesse (picture above), who claimed a prestigious victory for the German manufacturer on Ferrari’s soil.