{"id":18736,"date":"2019-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/maserati-tipo-6cm-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:13:29","slug":"maserati-tipo-6cm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/maserati-tipo-6cm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maserati Tipo 6CM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In recent months, many manufacturers look back on their sometimes very impressive brand histories and offer us fans a corresponding insight into past decades. A trend that we really welcome. Now also Maserati joins this field and recalls a great motorsport success, which dates back exactly 80 years. At that time, the factory team joined the legendary Targa Florio in Sicily again. This race, held annually since 1906, was named after entrepreneur Vincenzo Florio from Palermo, who organized this race on the streets of his family. With interruptions during the two World Wars this endurance race took place until 1977. Normally, they used a circuit through the mountains that covered almost the entire island of Sicily on public roads. Only from 1937 to 1940 they moved to a permanent circuit with 5.7 kilometers per lap, called the Parco della Favorita near Palermo.

After Maserati had already dominated the races in 1937 and 1938, they brought the Tipo 6CM monoposto along for a last time in 1939. Ernesto Maserati had developed this race car already back in 1935 in Modena. Despite a relatively conservative design at first glance, at a second glance the car showed its technical superiority. Under the long hood a straight six-cylinder engine is mounted, in which the cylinders are cast into the same block as the head. They are arranged in pairs on the crankcase made of the magnesium alloy electron. Two overhead camshafts, driven by a chain drive, control the two valves per cylinder. In addition, a Rootes volumetric supercharger pressurizes the gasoline-air mixture in the combustion chambers, resulting in 175 hp. Based on a classic ladder frame, the 6CM received an innovative front suspension with torsion bar suspension, which could be adjusted depending on the track profile. This was clearly superior to the competitors from France and the UK. Over the years, Maserati repeatedly changed the body parts to implement new aerodynamic findings.<\/p>\n\n\n

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