CHARACTERISTICS
The Circuit of the Castle took its name from the characteristic old nineteenth-century
construction of Della Monicas’, which faces the race’s layout. It has been organized by the “AUTOMOBILE CLUB TERAMO”, first motor association of the province cause it was constituted in 1924.
The circuit measures m. 3212, it shows a various planimetric-altimetrical outline and it proposes eight sharp turns, others with more fast proceedings and a fast straights.

THE PERIOD OF THE 750 SPORT AND CORSA CARS
The first edition, on May 29th, in 1949, was open to the 750 Sport Class cars. It was disputated on 40 rounds, in line, for 128,480.Km. They started 12 cars and had been placed 4 of them, the withdrawals had been 8. The teramano Berardo Taraschi won on the Urania which was constructed in Teramo, it averaged 74,596.Km over the distance. In the 1954 edition , the 6th , the Castle’s Circuit enabled to the single-seater cars of the 750 Race Class to take place too.
As a consequence of the “Le Mans” and the “Mille Miglia” car accidents, the Government called off all sorts of car races, both on the road and on the city courses, therefore, Teramo too had to delay the organization of its Castle’s Circuit.

JUNIORS’YEARS
The celebration, ever organized with masterly skill by the “Automobile Club” of Teramo, regains the prosecution on June 7th in 1959 organizing the 9th edition.
The event was reserved just to the single–seat cars of the race class, Formula Junior 1100cc.
Recently founded, always opened to the Junior single-seat cars, the Castle’s Circuit vitalized the Summer of Teramo the 11th of June in 1961, eleventh and final edition of Castle’s Circuit.

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THE WINNERS
In its Golden Register there are drivers of elevated sports importance, some of them later came to the worldwide Formula1 single-seat cars in which context they played an absolute merit role. There entered their names Berardo Taraschi, Sesto Leonardi, Franco Bordoni, Salvatore Casella, Stewart Lewis-Evans, Renato Pirocchi e Joseph Siffert.
Among the winnings cars there are Urania, Patriarca, Dagrada, Stanguellini, Cooper, Giaur, Taraschi, Lotus.

THE RECORDS OF THE COURSE
The record average over the distance it has been achieved in the year 1961 by the Helvetic Joseph Siffert on Lotus of F. Junior with 93,882 kmh. The absolute record on the lap it has been held again in 1961 at the eleventh edition, once again by Joseph Siffert with the Lotus, in 2’00”2/10 at the average of 96,200 kmh.

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THE CIRCUIT
29 th May 1949
President of the Automobile Club Teramo, organizer of Castle's Circuit, in 1949 was the engineer Italo Potena. The celebration took its name from the Della Monica's Castle, characteristic old nineteenth-century construction which faces the race's layout. It is the first city circuit realized in Abruzzo, the marked course measures 3,212kmts, just 328mts shorter than the Montecarlo's circuit.Starting from piazza Garibaldi, file down viale Bovio, junction to Torricella, the provincial road to Bosco Martese, viale XX Settembre, via delle Querce, viale Mazzini, piazza Garibaldi.

1 st CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
29 th May, 1949
The first edition is at national opening and validity for the italian Championship, Sport Category, Classe 750. It takes place in line, the distance to cover is of 40 laps, equal to 128.480Kmts. They start twelve cars, they place four of them, they withdraw eight of them. The Teramano Berardo Taraschi wins with the Urania, constructed in Teramo, which comes few seconds before the Roman Sesto Leonardi on Giannini: they are the only drivers to complete the whole distance. Third with 5 laps behind time is Nino Ricci on BMW, fourth the Pescarese Filippo De Cecco on Urania. The fastest lap of the race-day is that of Sesto Leonardi on Giannini.

2 nd CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
18 th June, 1950
The second edition is realized on two batteries and final round. The race is again for “Sport” and “Classe 750” cars. It detains national opening and validity for the “Sport 750” Italian Championship. Laps for batteries are fifteen, equal to 48,180Kmts each, the final race of twenty-five laps per 48,180Kmts. Eighteen drivers take part to the race, ten in the first battery, eight in the second one. First five of each battery reach the final race. The first battery is apanage of Leonardi on Patriarca ahead of Venetian on Stanguellini and of Zannini on Giannini. The remaining are classified with one lap less. The second goes to Berardo Taraschi on Giaur, ahead of the count Hercolani on an exactly alike model and of Umberto Bini on Stanguellini. The final race gives the victory to Leonardi, who sprints past Taraschi just of two seconds. Third is Bini fourth Giuseppe Musso followed, in the order, by Zannini, Colocci and Beccucci.

3 rd CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
17 th June, 1951
The third edition becomes fixed on two batteries and final race. The path covered by each battery is of 15 laps equal to 48,180Kmts, the final race of 25 per 80,300Kmts. Are accepted “Sport” and “Classe 750” cars, with validity for the Italian Championship. The first battery is won by Franco Bordoni on Dagrada, ahead of Taraschi on Giaur, third Luigi Musso on Patriarca. The second battery is apanage of Roberto Scala on Nardi Danese, second is the Tripolino Casella on Patriarca, third Giuseppe Musso on Giannini. The final race offers a hot match among the bigs Bordoni, Leonardi and Taraschi, with Casella gone out the scene to the last lap but one. It is again Franco Bordoni to assert himself, second is Leonardi on Giaur, third Taraschi on Giaur.

4 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
22 nd June, 1952
The race picks up the top of more qualified presences. It is again divided into two batteries of 15 laps per 48,180Kmts and final race of 25 laps e km. 80,300. It is again at national opening, valid for per the “Sport 750” Italian Championship. Two representative of the fair sex refine the race-ground of departing drivers: Maria Teresa de Filippis and Annamaria Peduzzi, the “Moroccan woman” of the years which one raced the grand prix linked to the Tripoli 's Lottery. The first battery is that of Salvatore Casella on Stanguellini, who wins ahead of Taraschi on Giaur and of Tinazzo, third. The Roman Leonardi, on Giaur, wins the second prevailing of few seconds on the Giaur of De Filippis and on Scala third on N.D. The final race lives on the duel among Casella, Taraschi and Tinazzo. First two are with Stanguellini, Taraschi with the more recent evolution of the Giaur. They confront themselves for twenty-five laps racing very close to seconds, with Casella first, Taraschi second and Tinazzo third.

5 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
21 st June, 1953
For the first time , the Castle's Circuit, which maintains its pattern of race, with “Sport 750” and two batteries plus final race, they race with threat of rain. The novelty doesn't discourage the participation of the public who crowds panoramic area of the course. 15 laps of the first battery they race on wet. Taraschi wins the first race with the Giaur, coming before the Bandini of Bondi and the Giannini of Tinazzo abundantly third. The second battery, on 15 laps it too, it races on damp bottom. The victory is of Salvatore Casella, who, on Stanguellini, comes before Leonardi on Giaur and the Teramano Ciarelli third. It begins again to rain on the ten cars which are on the start-grid for the final race. It is at once scrimmage among Casella, Taraschi and Leonardi: a Stanguellini at the attack of two Giaur.The match is all to the standard of the speed. Casella wins, it is second position for Taraschi, third one for Leonardi, either two on Giaur.

6 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
13 th June, 1954
The race is at international opening, with “Corsa 750” cars and validity for the Italian Championship. It is composed of two batteries of 15 laps, “repechage” of eight and final race per 112,420Kmts. For the first time foreign drivers run, with single-seating cars by back motorcycle engine. During training dies the Teramano Domenico Valorosi. The Coopers break the first battery, won by Stuart Lewis-Evans, later come to F. 1, second is Beels, third Flutchinsons, fourth Tinazzo on Giannini at one lap. Taraschi on Giaur reassess national colours and wins the second battery, with public honour of Lang on Cooper and Taraschi on Giaur, third position for Chazalet on Volpini, with one lap less. In the grid of the final race, there the recovered Mylonadis and Bec. With guide of weakened champion, Lewis-Evans stand out all the others and wins ahead of Taraschi who conquests at full laps the public honour and of Bondi, third.

7 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
12 th June, 1955
The “teramano” event powerfully asserts itself internationwide and gains the attention of foreign drivers, who adhere to it in remarkable numbers. The race is again opened to the single-seating “Corsa 750” cars, it is composed of two batteries of 48,180Kmts and final race of 128,480Kmts. The first battery produces a long match among Leonardi on Stanguellini on the one side and Stewart Lewis Evans on Cooper, with Taylor on Cooper and Taraschi on Giaur to theirs back. By the other terms, Italian production in comparison with the British one. Wins Leonardi, equally sparkling and the second battery, again with Italian-British comparison, protagonists are the Coopers of Loens and Wickens plus Stanguellini of the local Renato Pirocchi. The first gain the upper hand, with Loens as winner, second Wickens, only third Pirocchi. The “music” doesn't change in the final race. The unaesthetic Coopers, agile and very stable sprinkle with dust the uptown national cars. They have a good fight, Stuart Lewis-Evans and George Wickens imposing the sports shame of dubbing on Taraschi and Pirocchi. Lewis-Evans wins, Wickens is second, third Taraschi, fourth Pirocchi.

8 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
3 rd June, 1956
The Castle's Circuit, thanks to its safety , it gets out undamaged from the restrictions resulting from Le Mans 1955. It maintain international opening, Corsa 750 category, Italian headline, the composition of two batteries plus final race. Nine cars are in the first battery, there are Giaur, Cooper, Stanguellini, Faranda, Bandini e Moretti. Among the drivers, Pirocchi, Taraschi, Loens and Zannini. The race is all in the match between the two “Teramani”: Pirocchi on the run, Taraschi to the following, going on over the finishing line. Zannini is third, Loens fifth on Cooper. Lewis-Evans and Kunhke give internationality to the second battery. Tinazzo with Giaur, Lippi and Leonardi with Stanguellini defend the national colours. Their work is arduous, with Lewis-Evans who wins hands down with the Cooper. The final race puts in perspective with exactness the combative calibre of Berardo Taraschi and the mechanical endowments. The “lupo d'Abruzzo” that is: “the wolf of Abruzzo”, helped by the half-race withdrawal of Lewis-Evans, wins ahead of Kunhke on Cooper and of Tinazzo on Giaur.

9 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
7 th June, 1959
After two years of suspension because of the Mille Miglia '57 accident, the Castle's Circuit it presents again to the national attention, opened to the single-seating cars of the new Formula. Junior, composed of two batteries plus final race. The first battery, of 10 laps per 32,120Kmts, enjoys of the more qualified national cars' presence. The meteorological situation is unfavourable, it's pouring rain. Taraschi earns immediately the lead and keeps it as far as the finish-line. The Teramano wins, De Sanctis and Tinazzo follow him. The second race, on the same length of the first one, sees the hot match between the Neapolitan Antonio Maglione, on De Sanctis Fiat with rear engine and Teramano Pirocchi on Stanguellini with front engine. The first is favoured by the conditions of rain-washed bottom and wins ahead to the Modenese of Pirocchi and of Lippi. In the Final race of 30 laps and 96,360Kmts, protagonist is the local idol Taraschi, who, with his Giaur, assumes command stalked at length, but in vain, by Tinazzo and De Sanctis with the Roman rear engine. Pirocchi withdrawn , Taraschi wins ahead of Tinazzo and De Sanctis.

10 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
5 th June, 1960
La Formula Junior fascinates the organizers and the public of Teramo. It does not surprise therefore that the tenth edition of the Castle's Circuit, after the approach of the early year, is again reserved to the single-seating cars of the by now affirmed technical solution. Two “Teramani”, moreover, there they excelled: Taraschi and Pirocchi. Eight cars have access to the first battery, of 10 laps. Three drivers compete one with another: Nogueira-Pinto, Colin Davis and Lucio De Sanctis and three constructors: Stanguellini, Taraschi and De Sanctis. Nogueira-Pinto wins with the Modenese car at 80,692 km. per hour, second position for Davis with the “Teramana”, third is De Sanctis with the Roman. The second battery hinges all on the hand-to-hand fight between the Stanguellini of Pirocchi and the De Sanctis of Maglione. On the finish line of the tenth and last lap, Maglione comes of one-tenth before Pirocchi, with an average of 83,428 km . per hour. The “Teramano”, by his hand, hits up the fastest lap at the eighth round, covered at xx,xxx km. per hour. At the conclusion of the 30 laps of the final race, it is the Stanguellini of Pirocchi to cross the finishing line first, followed, by De Sanctis of Maglione. It is third position for the Stanguellini of Nogueira-Pinto, the forth one for the Taraschi of Colin Davis.

11 th CASTLE'S CIRCUIT
11 th June, 1961
It is the last episode of the Castle's Circuit. The richest in drivers of great calibre, the fullest of last generation's mechanical means and the richest in public. An exit from the scene all the more sore because by now it is once and for all stated among drivers and constructors. In the first battery, John Love, David Young and Chris Andrews all on Cooper compete with Pirocchi on De Sanctis, ‘Uaris” on Taraschi and Ballico-Lay on De Sanctis. Andrews wins, ahead of the “Pescarese” Angelo Bianco concealed under the name “Flaris”, Ballico-Lay and Young. Lotus, De Sanctis, Wainer and Stanguellini characterise the second battery, with drivers by the calibre of Siffert, “Geki”, Maglione, Clerici and Moroni . The Swiss Joseph Siffert with Lotus, second Maglione, third Clerici, fourth Moroni , fifth “Geki”. The final race, of 30 laps, dominated by the Lotus of Siffert and of “Geki”, with the Wainer of Clerici third ahead of the Cooper of Andrews, fourth and of the De Sanctis of Ballico Lay, fifth. This is the on-coming order, with Siffert absolute record holder of that course as on the distance as on the fastest lap.

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GOLDEN REGISTER

29 th May, 1949 :
Berardo Taraschi, Urania, 74,596 km. per hour.
Fastest Lap: Sesto Leonardi, Giannini, 77,191 km. per hour

18 th June, 1950
Sesto Leonardi, Patriarca, kmh. 79,478
Fastest Lap: Berardo Taraschi, Giaur, 81,202 km. per hour

17 th June, 1951
Franco Bordon, Dagrada, 81,262 km. per hour
Fastest Lap: Berardo Taraschi, Giaur, 83,428 km. per hour

22 nd June, 1952
Salvatore Casella, Stanguellini, 80,380 km. per hour.
Fastest Lap: Salvatore Casella, Stanguellini, 83,188 km. per hour

21 st June, 1953
Salvatore Casella, Stanguellini, 80,884 km. per hour.
Fastest Lap: Salvatore Casella, Stanguellini, 84,279 km. per hour

13 th June, 1954
Stuart Lewis-Evans, Cooper, 83,968 km. per hour
Fastest Lap: Berardo Taraschi, Giaur, 89,776 km. per hour - A.H. Beels, Cooper, 89,776 km. per hour

12 th June, 1955
Stuart Lewis-Evans, Cooper, 88,430 km. per hour
Fastest Lap: Stuart Lewis-Evans, 90,763 km. per hour

3 rd June, 1956
Berardo Taraschi, Giaur, 86,756 km. per hour.
Fastest Lap: Stuart Lewis-Evans, 92,803 km. per hour.

7 th June, 1959
Berardo Taraschi, Giaur, 90,714 km. per hour.
Fastest Lap: Renato Pirocchi, Stanguellini, 93,402 km. per hour - Berardo Taraschi, Giaur, 93,402 km. per hour.

5 th June, 1960
Renato Pirocchi, Stanguellini, 85,462 km. per hour
Fastest Lap: Antonio Maglione, De Sanctis, 89,637 km. per hour

11 th June, 1961
Joseph Siffert, Lotus, 93,882 km. per hour – primacy on distance
Fastest Lap: Joseph Siffert, Lotus, 96,200 km. per hour – Absolute Record