| 1953 10 Hours of Messina | |||||
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 The Messinese Mario Piccolo is extracted from his car exhausted after the arrival. | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | 26 July 1953 | ||||
| Official name | 10 Hours of Messina | ||||
| Location | Messina, Italy | ||||
| Course length | 1102,043 km | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Ferrari 212 MM | ||||
| Second | Ferrari 212 MM | ||||
| Third | Lancia Aurelia GT | ||||
The second 10 Hours of Messina was a sports car race, held on 26 July 1953 in the street circuit of Messina, Italy. [1]
| # | Drivers | Team | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Eugenio Castellotti Giulio Musitelli | Ferrari 250 MM | 144 |
| 2. | Franco Cornacchia Giovanni Bracco | Ferrari 250 MM | 140 |
| 3. | Antonio Pucci Giuseppe de Sarzana | Lancia Aurelia GT 2500 | 138 |
| 4. | Luigi Piotti Guido Moroni | Ferrari 212 MM | 136 |
| 5. | Guglielmo Pinzero Pasquale Placido | Ferrari 250 MM | 136 |
| 6. | Enzo Pinzero Gerino Gerini | Ferrari 250 MM | 134 |
| 7. | Paolo Gravina Lorenzo Delpino | Fiat 8V | 134 |
| 8. | Bruno Sterzi Franco Cortese | Ferrari 166 MM Vignale Spider s/n 0278M | 133 |
| 9. | Pietro Laureati Amato | Alfa Romeo 1900 TI | 132 |
| 10. | Simontacchi Luigi Bosisio | Fiat 8V | 132 |
| 11. | Soldani Angeli | Alfa Romeo 2000 | 127 |
| 12. | Scaletta Fancelli | Alfa Romeo 1900 TI | 124 |
| 13. | Salvatore de Cordova F. de Cordova | Alfa Romeo 1900 TI | 121 |
| 14. | Sannino Giuseppe Ruggero | Alfa Romeo 1900 TI | 116 |
| 15. | Alessandro Zafferri Mario Della Favera | Alfa Romeo 1900 TI | 115 |
| 16. | Colocci Mariucci | Lancia Aurelia 2000 | 115 |
| 17. | Consiglio Claudio Faranda | Lancia Aurelia 2000 | 113 |
| 18. | Mario Piccolo Gugliotta Nardi | Danese 750 | 112 |
| 19. | Miceli Giamporcaro | Alfa Romeo 1900TI | 108 |
| 20. | Faranda Savarese | BMW 750 | 98 |
| 21. | Sebasti Scarlatti | Alfa Romeo 1900 | 94 |
| not finish | Giuseppe Rossi | Stanguellini S1100 | DNF |
| other starters | Luigi Bordonaro Fondi | Lancia G.T. 2500 |