VeloceToday.com https://velocetoday.com The Online Magazine for Italian and French Classic Car Enthusiasts Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:07:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Maranello Masterpieces at Road America, 1956 https://velocetoday.com/maranello-masterpieces-at-road-america-1956/ https://velocetoday.com/maranello-masterpieces-at-road-america-1956/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:15:04 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=173344

In the classic June Sprints that’s still run today some seventy years later, Carroll Shelby drove Luigi Chinetti’s 4412CC, 330HP in-line, six-cylinder 121 LM (0558LM) in this SCCA National event on the 4.0-mile road racing course near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Shelby survived the challenges of a host of Ferraris and the three D-Type Jaguars of the Briggs Cunningham racing team. He led all 38 laps of the 152-mile race, setting the fastest race lap, and beating Lou Brero’s D-type across the line by six seconds. 0558LM was raced by the factory with Umberto Maglioli, Phil Hill, and Eugenio Castellotti in 1955 before going to Luigi Chinetti, who provided it to Hill and Shelby to race in 1956. (Caption by Jeff Allison)

Photos by Glen Glendenning
Captions by Jeff Allison and Pete Vack

Bob Birmingham and Glen Glendenning have previously featured the cars at the 1956 June Sprints at Road America, but we purposely left out the large contingent of Ferraris that entered the Sprints that year. We present them herein.

While gathering up the photos for this piece, three points of interest came to our attention:

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History Detectives Caption Rare Photos https://velocetoday.com/history-detectives-caption-rare-photos/ https://velocetoday.com/history-detectives-caption-rare-photos/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:28:24 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/index.php/?p=10015

With our thanks to Michael T. Lynch, William Edgar, Willem Oosthoek and David Seielstad.

Dale LaFollette of Vintage Motorphoto sent us the five images for this story. In general, we knew a little about each photo but decided to send the photos to different historians to give us their detailed description of the photo. They are William Edgar, Michael T. Lynch, Willem Oosthoek and David Seielstad.

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