Auszug aus einem Artikel über McLarens frühe Jahre und einem über Nino Vaccarella, woraus man schließen kann, dass es sich wohl um dasselbe Serenissima-Team handelt, anfangs als kleines F1-Team, später als Motorenlieferant für McLaren:
McLaren:
But it hasn't always been that easy for a McLaren GP car - Bruce McLaren's first endeavours in a self-designed car were quite disastrous, to say the least. One of the reasons for this poor form was McLaren's unlucky hand in picking engines. For his debut race at Monaco he put a Ford V8 engine (not the famous DFV but an adapted Indy V8) in the back of the white M2B, while Spa saw the debut of the Italian Serenissima engine. It was a very serene debut indeed, the Serenissima letting go in the first qualifying session, leaving Bruce hanging in the dry. He used the unit for two more races though. It pulled the same stunt at Zandvoort but in Britain the engine remarkably lasted the whole race, enabling McLaren to finish in 6th place. For the two North American races he turned back to the Ford V8, which brought him a 5th at the Glen. The highpoint of Bruce's year, however, was his Le Mans win with Chris Amon.
Vaccarella:
Sometimes mistakenly identified as a lawyer (even by some commanding sources), the Sicilian was a steady driver whom team managers could count on for bringing the car home. That skill being a guaranteed meal ticket on any sportscar team, his F1 career was nibbed in the bud after some promising non-championship outings for Count Giovanni Volpi di Misturi's Scuderia Serenissima (also referred to as Scuderia SSS). Taking third in the 1961 Coppa Italia at Vallelunga, and finishing sixth in the 1962 Pau GP, these results had been preceded by a one-off for Serenissima's ill-fated De Tomaso project in 1961, Vaccarella managing to qualify the cumbersome Alfa-engined vehicle at Monza before retiring with a broken engine. In 1962 Volpi decided to race an outdated Lotus 18/21 powered by the Climax straight four, while renting a brand new customer Climax V8-engined 24 from Rob Walker (the last Lotus spaceframe before Hethel introduced the 25 and kept it for itself). At Monaco Vaccarella failed to qualify the 18/21 but at Monza (our picture) got into the race, qualifying a respectable 14th, to score his best F1 finish in just five tries: ninth. His two other World Championship one-offs were just that: driving Serenissima's ageing Porsche at the 'Ring in 1962 (the occasion on which underrated superprivateer Carel de Beaufort qualified an amazing 8th in his similar orange Maarsbergen Porsche), and a some sort of a thank-you drive for Ferrari at the 1965 Italian GP - incidentally, the same car Bob Bondurant was to drive at the next race!
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