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Specifications
Sport 1928-29: 171 units built
Super Sport 1929: 10 units built
Super Sport 1929 (supercharger): 15 units built
total: 1058 units built, 200 with DOHC as S & SS
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Alfa Romeo straight 6 cyl, 4 stroke, petrol engine
62 x 82 mm
1487 cc
5.25:1
56.7 kw / 76 bhp @ 4800 rpm, (44 HP in normale SOHC engine 1926)
cast-iron block and head
5 main bearings
DOHC, 2 valves / cylinder - 12 valves total
aspiration, 1 x supercharger with 1 x Zenith 42 HA Single Body Carburetor
ignition magneto
water cooled
4 speed manual gearbox
dry multiplate 6" clutch
final drive, 4.08/1
pressed steel ladder frame chassis designed to flex and undulate over uneven surfaces, as well as sensitive geared-up steering, 2 door aluminium open bodyshell
front suspension, solid axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, friction type shock absorbers
rear suspension, live axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs, friction type shock absorbers
mechanical drum brakes all around
worm and wheel steering
Length 3,970 mm (156.3")
width, 1631 mm (64.2")
height, 1349 mm (53.1")
Wheelbase 2921 mm (115")
Track (fr/r), 1379 mm (54.3") / 1379 mm (54.3")
steel Rudge Whitworth Center-Lock, Wire-Spoked wheels 4.75x18"
850-880 kg
fuel tank, 97 lt
Results in Endurance Races
| Car entry, chassis number | Car number/ result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mille Miglia | Targa Florio | Brooklands | Le Mans | ACF | SPA | Tourist Trophy | ||||||
| Date | 1/4 | 6/5 | 12/5 | 17/6 | 1/7 | 8/7 | 18/8 | |||||
| Team | 1600km | 540km | 6h | 24h | GP | 24h | 6h | |||||
| Bruno Presenti/ Carlo Canavesi | #25, 8th | |||||||||||
| Attilio Marinoni | #26, 4th | #30, dnf | in entry list | #24, 1st | ||||||||
| F. W. Stiles | #27, 14th | |||||||||||
| F. W. Stiles | #30, 1st | #16, 2nd | ||||||||||
| F. W. Stiles (SS) | 1st | |||||||||||
| F. W. Stiles, 0211332 (SS) | 7th | |||||||||||
| F. W. Stiles (SS) | 9th | |||||||||||
| F. Fussi/ Carlo Sozzi | #31, 20th | |||||||||||
| A. Bornigia/ Angelo Guatta | #33, 5th | |||||||||||
| Emilio Bonamico/ Coccia | #35, 17th | |||||||||||
| Ugo de Giovanni/ Guido Boris | #36, 39th | |||||||||||
| Luigi Chinetti | dnf | |||||||||||
| Total points 71 |
26 | 9 | 16 | 10 | ||||||||
| Statistics | ||||||||||||
| Starts/finishes 15/13 | 8/8 | 2/1 | 3/3 | 2/1 | ||||||||
| Drivers | Team entries and car number | |||||||||||
| Attilio Marinoni | ||||||||||||
| Attilio Marinoni | 26 | 30 | + | 24 | ||||||||
| Giovanni Battista Guidotti | 26 | |||||||||||
| Boris Ivanowski | + | 24 | ||||||||||
| Rachevsky | + | |||||||||||
| F. W. Stiles | ||||||||||||
| Guido Mancinelli | 27 | |||||||||||
| Carlo Bruno | 27 | + | ||||||||||
| Giuseppe Campari | 30 | 16 | ||||||||||
| Guilio Ramponi | 30 | + | ||||||||||
| Jack Dunfee | + | |||||||||||
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