Carlo Mario Abate (born in Turin, July 10, 1932) was an italian autoracing driver. By French origins, was one of the best Ferrari 250 GTO specialists. Raced mostly for the private Italian team Scuderia Serenissima of Count Volpi, but also for Scuderia Centro Sud, Scuderia Ferrari and the Porsche AG factory team. In 1959 won not competitive race Mille Miglia with G. Balzarini. In 1962 season he tried partecipating Formula One races France and Germany with Lotus-Climax, but failed qualifying. Retired from the sport at the end of the 1963 season, his greatest year, culminating with a win at the Targa Florio on a factory Porsche with Joakim Bonnier, ironically one of his rare non-Italian car outings. After partecipating at 1963 Italian Grand Prix (where is not qualified), become the director of a clinic. Turin (Italian: ; Piedmontese: Türín) is a major industrial city in north-western Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the west bank of the Po River. ... July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... The current Ferrari logo Ferrari is an Italian constructor in the Formula One World Championship, as well as a manufacturer of high-end and high-performance race cars, exotic cars, and sports cars formed by Enzo Ferrari in 1929. ... 1961 Ferrari 250 TR modified by Giotto Bizzarrini for Volpis Scuderia Serenissima Scuderia Serenissima was a successful auto racing team in the early 1960s. ... Scuderia Centro Sud was a privateer racing team founded by Guglielmo Mimmo Dei that entered various Formula 1 and sports car between 1956 and 1965. ... Scuderia Ferrari is the common name for the Gestione Sportiva, the division of the Ferrari automobile company concerned with racing. ... Porsche (), properly pronounced as a two syllable word (porsh-eh, IPA: ) , is a German manufacturer of sports cars, founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who created the first Volkswagen. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles) was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947). ... Season Summary Season Review 1962 Constructors Championship final standings 1962 Drivers Championship final standings Categories: Formula One seasons ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Lotus berthelotii, Trailing Lotus Nelumbo lutea, the American Lotus The term lotus has a variety of uses. ... Look up Climax in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In general, a climax is a point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; i. ... Targa Florio The Targa Florio was an open road endurance automobile race held near Palermo, Sicily. ... Joakim Jo Bonnier (born January 31, 1930 in Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden; died June 11, 1972) was a sportscar racing and Formula One driver who raced for various teams. ... Results from the 1963 Formula One Italian Grand Prix held at Monza on September 8, 1963 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Jim Clark 138. ...