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By end August Claude Storez and Marcel Buffet were in Belgium to take part to the 1956 Edition of the Liege Rome Liege race another very tough race on difficult roads
Over 3000 km with no other stops than to refuel or control oil
This time Marcel Buffet left his new Carrera in his garage and raced with an older PRE A 356 from Sonauto

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As always 1956 was a tough race with 35 cars completing the race out of the 200 + starters
Porsche made 2nd, 6th, 28th,30th and 33rd

The race was won by the Mercedes 300SL of the Belgium team Willy Mairesse/Genin



Marcel Buffet/Claude Storez were 2nd overall

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Claude Storez (sun glasses) Marcel Buchet in front of an Italian restaurant


Apparently this restaurant was a forced stop as several of the other competitors were pictured in front of this same restaurant
Willy Mairesse first


A Ferrari

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The ladies'cup was won by thee English team Ann Hall/Nancy Mitchell on a MGA

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Some days ago starting the narration of the Storez/Buffet team, 1956 Liege Rome Liege I wrote :

Indeed I found to day the answer to why they raced the Liege Rome Liege with an older pre A Sonauto

instead of the Buffet bright new A Carrera

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You remember that pic of Claude and Robert presenting with smile their bright new Carrera at the start of the Mont Blanc rallye

According to that pic although it was a win, the car did suffer a lot during the race

hence the change of car
CQFD

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Two weeks after Liege Rome Liege by September 13th, Claude Store and Robert Buchet were at Nice for the start of the 6th Tour Auto with the same 356 PRE A plate 6175 EL 75
After the 3500 km of the Liege Rome Liege on awfully degradated mointain roads, it was another 5300 km race in 3 stages
Start from Nice
Arrival Paris by September 23rd
Indeed Claude Storez 356 did not support well these additionnal kilometers and it was a DNF
Not surprising only 37 out of the 130 starters cars completed the race
The winning team was a Ferrari driven by Alfonso de Portago

Followed in second place by the 300SL Mercedes of Stirling Moss

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Cars during the race on the oval

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Two 356 during the race
The Carrera nracenumber 58 was DNF

De Portago Ferrari in the Mont Ventoux hill climb

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this bright new Carrera from a French "unknown amateur"

team finish 19th

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Sorry wrong post
I continue
By April 14 th 1957 Claude Storez flew to Sicilia to attend the "Giro di Sicilia" on a 550 A from the Porsche factory
The nGiro di Sicilia is a 1000 km race around Sicilia the small Italian Island
The Giro di Sicilia is raced 2 months before the Targa Florio who is raced in the same island but on a smaller track to complete several times

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The Giro di Sicilia was as much popular in Italy than the Mille Miglia or the Targa Florio
Each year, the Organizing comittee invite some known foreign pilots to join the several hundreds Italians competitors on small Fiat, Alfa, Osca, Stanginelli etc
In 1957 Porsche KG sent 2 550 A, one for Claude car race number 302 and one for Umberto Maglioli car race number 303
Both cars were DNF
I have not found any pic of Claude car but just one of Umberto Maglioli

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In 1957 the Le Mans 24 hours race was back to end June (June 22nd/23rd)
As usual Porsche came with a strong team of 7 cars
Car race number was the first race for the new 718RSK 01 driven by Edgar Barth/Umberto Maglioli

Car race number 33 was 550 RS 0131 driven by Hans Hermann/Richard von Frankenberg

Car race number 34 was another 550RS (0120) driven by Claude Storez/Ed Crawford

Car race number 35 was 550 RS 0132 driven by Carel Godin de Beaufort /Hugus

Car race number 36 was 356 speedster driven by Slotine/Bourel

Car race number 60 was the ecurie nationale Belge 550 082 driven by Dubois/Harris