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Ludovico Scarfiotti was the first of the two drivers to discover the 24 Hours in 1960. Of his eight starts , he was only unfaithful to Ferrari once : in 1961 , he drove a Maserati Tipo 63 with Nino Vaccarella. After three retirements his fourth start was much better, with victory with the Ferrari 250P , shared with Lorenzo Bandini . To recount the story of the race, the Italian duo took the lead in the 19th hour of the race , after the abandonment of the other 250P of Willy Mairesse and John Surtees , until then a solid leader. In this year, the dominance of Ferrari was total , filling the top six places in the overall classification ! Thereafter, Bandini and Scarfiotti each recorded a Sarthe podium : Bandini in 1964 with Surtees, 3rd in a Ferrari 330P, Scarfiotti second in 1967 with Mike Parkes in a 330P4.

This last year , 1967, Lorenzo Bandini was the fastest Ferrari driver in preliminary testing, but never drove at his sixth Le Mans 24 Hours . On May 10 , he was killed at the Grand Prix of Monaco , in pursuit of the leader Denny Hulme's Brabham . In the Ferrari 330 P4 that he was to drive with Michael Parkes , he was replaced ... by Ludovico Scarfiotti . The British and Italian team finished second behind the winning Ford Mk 4 of Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt . On 8 June 1968 Ludovico Scarfiotti was in turn killed in a Porsche 910 at a hill climb at Roßfeldhöhenringstraße near Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the German Alps. . He was also the last Italian driver to win the Italian Grand Prix at the wheel of a Ferrari (1966 in a Ferrari 312). Lorenzo Bandini had also recorded a Formula 1 victory in Austria, in 1964 in a Ferrai 156.

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Photo: CIRCUIT OF THE 24 HOURS ( Le Mans , Sarthe ), 24 HOURS OF LE MANS , 15 & 16 June 1963 . Driving their Ferrari 250P, the victorious Lorenzo Bandini and Ludovico Scarfiotti are the first to surpass the 4,500 kilometres mark in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.