1953 10 Hours of Messina
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The Messinese Mario Piccolo is extracted from his car exhausted after the arrival.
Race details
Date	26 July 1953 (1953-07-26)
Official name	10 Hours of Messina
Location	Messina, Italy
Course length	1102,043 km
Podium
First	Eugenio Castellotti Giulio Musitelli	Ferrari 212 MM
Second	Franco Cornacchia Giovanni Bracco	Ferrari 212 MM
Third	Antonio Pucci Giuseppe de Sarzana	Lancia Aurelia GT

The second 10 Hours of Messina was a sports car race, held on 26 July 1953 in the street circuit of Messina, Italy.^[1]

Final standings

• Started: 39
• Classified: 23

#	Drivers	Team	Laps
1.	Eugenio Castellotti Giulio Musitelli	Ferrari 250 MM	144
2.	Franco Cornacchia Giovanni Bracco	Ferrari 250 MM	140
3.	Antonio Pucci Giuseppe de Sarzana	Lancia Aurelia GT 2500	138
4.	Luigi Piotti Guido Moroni	Ferrari 212 MM	136
5.	Guglielmo Pinzero Pasquale Placido	Ferrari 250 MM	136
6.	Enzo Pinzero Gerino Gerini	Ferrari 250 MM	134
7.	Paolo Gravina Lorenzo Delpino	Fiat 8V	134
8.	Bruno Sterzi Franco Cortese	Ferrari 166 MM Vignale Spider s/n 0278M	133
9.	Pietro Laureati Amato	Alfa Romeo 1900 TI	132
10.	Simontacchi Luigi Bosisio	Fiat 8V	132
11.	Soldani Angeli	Alfa Romeo 2000	127
12.	Scaletta Fancelli	Alfa Romeo 1900 TI	124
13.	Salvatore de Cordova F. de Cordova	Alfa Romeo 1900 TI	121
14.	Sannino Giuseppe Ruggero	Alfa Romeo 1900 TI	116
15.	Alessandro Zafferri Mario Della Favera	Alfa Romeo 1900 TI	115
16.	Colocci Mariucci	Lancia Aurelia 2000	115
17.	Consiglio Claudio Faranda	Lancia Aurelia 2000	113
18.	Mario Piccolo Gugliotta Nardi	Danese 750	112
19.	Miceli Giamporcaro	Alfa Romeo 1900TI	108
20.	Faranda Savarese	BMW 750	98
21.	Sebasti Scarlatti	Alfa Romeo 1900	94
not finish	Giuseppe Rossi	Stanguellini S1100	DNF
other starters	Luigi Bordonaro Fondi	Lancia G.T. 2500

See also

• Messina Grand Prix (auto race that replaced it)

References

External links

• La 10 Ore di Messina, la storia (in Italian)