{"id":18090,"date":"2019-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/maserati-8ctf-boyle-special-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:53:26","slug":"maserati-8ctf-boyle-special-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/maserati-8ctf-boyle-special-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maserati 8CTF Boyle Special"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since May 30, 1911 every year a motorsports event takes place in the USA whose fame is on a level with the Grand Prix of Monaco in Formula 1 or the 24 Hours of Le Mans for sports cars. Of course, we are talking about the 500 Miles of Indianapolis. Once it took place on a paved oval with four banked corners. After World War 2 it got a complete layer of tarmac, but as a reminder a strip across the main straight was left out: The start and finish line shows the bricks of yesteryear and received the name ‘Yard of Bricks’. In addition, since 1936, the winners traditionally drink a sip of milk after the race. Directly to the launch of the race, European manufacturers also came across the pond to compete in the 500 miles (or 200 laps). Peugeot won in 1913, 1916 and 1919, a Delage in 1914 and a Mercedes in 1915. However, in the following 20 years the Indy 500 remained a race event with winners only from the US.

Already in the early 1930s Alfieri Maserati was invited by some race organizers in the USA to bring over his race cars for some events. In 1937, the Maserati brothers sold their company to the Orsi family, but remained in senior positions within the company and were able to focus on the development of new racing vehicles through the cash injection. They benefited from the fact that the international motorsports authorities announced new regulations for monoposto race cars for 1938, which limited the displacement of supercharged engines to three liters. Based on these new rules, Ernesto Maserati developed the 8CTF with a chassis consisting of two steel section bar rails and cross members. In front there is an inline eight-cylinder engine whose cylinders are grouped in two pairs of four and casted in a monoblock with the cylinder head. This resulted in the name of the car: 8 Cilindri Testa Fissa (8 cylinder fixed head). Two carburetors and two large-volume superchargers, as well as the two valves per cylinder in a 90\u00b0V arrangement, driven by two overhead camshafts, helped the engine in its original configuration to 350 hp from 2,991 cubic centimeters. From 1939 the power increased to 365 hp.<\/p>\n\n\n

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