1962 Targa Florio

The 46° Targa Florio was a motor race which took place on 6 May 1962, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily, Italy.

Ferrari dominated most of the 1962 race, with a double victory for the team cars and with two privateers finishing fourth and fifth.

Porsche were trying out a new version of the 718, combining the two-litre boxer-eight (developed from the 1.5 litre engine used in the Formula 1 car, and also seen in testing for Le Mans 1961) with the new coupé bodywork which had thus far only been used with a four-cylinder engine.

[1] Worried about reliability, they had Count Volpi's Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia enter the two cars instead, which is why they were painted red.

The second car was driven by Graham Hill and Dan Gurney, but the latter crashed it after a brake failure.