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Story by Sean Smith
By his own estimations Bill Gelles has owned and raced in a Stanguellini longer than anyone else in the world (with hats off to Howard Banaszak!) Gelles has steeped himself in the history and lore of all things Stanguellini. When Gelles sat down and spoke to Vittorio’s son Francesco, Francesco told Bill “You know more of the history of these cars than we do.” Well, almost. Bill had learned a lot.
In our feature, https://velocetoday.com/a-touch-of-dantes-genius-the-junior-racers/ we stated that a Taraschi driven by Berardo Taraschi won the first ever Formula Junior event in 1958. Longtime reader and historian Aldo Zana took us to task on the subject, correcting our mistake (and his) and providing a number of great photos of that first F Jr. event as can be seen below. Editor [Read more…] about April 25, 1958 The First Formula Junior Race