The international titles of the KD 800 kg
The KD 800 Kg is always the leader among the racer classes and Italy is always awarded the international titles. For the continental title the "theater" is the Idroscalo of Milan and although this championship is exclusively a challenge between our representatives, being the best of the maximum inboard boating, the show that these champions offer to the worthy audience is undoubtedly first class, with great satisfaction for the MAM (Motonautica Associazione Milano) organizer of the event.
In the water are present, in addition to the Guidotti clan (father Liborio and sons Flavio and Giorgio), Casalini, Dell'Orto and Spagnoli. Three heats of 10 laps each are planned on the circuit measuring 2000 meters. An important novelty is the new beautiful hull Timossi di Dell'Orto (Arno XI), launched for the occasion, which has a new version of the 12-cylinder Ferrari. Interesting and very original is its aerodynamic fairing that adopts a showy fin made by the Boneschi body shop towards the stern. The other competitors also have Timossi hulls unlike the only Spagnoli competing with the new Celli; as for the engines, Maseratis with a displacement of 5600 cc are used apart from the 3500 cc ones, a bit obsolete and clearly not able to fight for the lead, used by Giorgio Guidotti. Lino Spagnoli (reigning world champion of the KD 800 Kg) promptly takes the lead in the opening heat and during the second lap records an average of Km/h 122.866 which remains the best speed for this championship. Lap after lap Spagnoli resists the attacks brought by Casalini and Liborio Guidotti taking a peremptory victory giving a clear demonstration of having an excellent complex and also silencing the gossips after the world success of the previous year.
The ranking of the first test sees Spagnoli with a total time of 10'08", second Casalini with 10'17"6, third Liborio Guidotti 10'31"4, fourth Flavio Guidotti 10'34"3, fifth Dell'Orto 10'59"6, sixth but significantly behind Giorgio Guidotti with 12'16".

Giorgio Guidotti does not show up at the start of the second heat, complaining of a structural problem with one of his racer's boots and therefore abandons the race definitively. Flavio Guidotti leaps with great impetus to the lead of the heat, finishes first at the checkered flag but then suffers a downgrading for a jump start, losing all hope of winning the title. Dell'Orto also suffers the same downgrading, the final result of the race sees the order of arrival reversed: this time Casalini prevails with a time of 10'15"5 over Spagnoli with 10'44"2. Spagnoli offers a moment of suspense when he rears up in the wake of Dell'Orto: the driver from Perugia still manages to keep the boat trimmed, finishing the race 29" behind the winner Casalini. In third place again Liborio Guidotti, victim of a problem with a water pipe in the pre-start warm-up laps; once the problem is repaired, he returns to the race with the race already underway.
In the decisive final heat, Casalini, who could have started with a 19" advantage over Spagnoli, instead accomplishes the "feat" of not winning a championship that seemed already won. With a regular start this time, Flavio Guidotti takes the lead and goes on to win the heat, obtaining the highest average of the scheduled laps.
Behind the very fast Guidotti, the tenacious Spagnoli emerges and, despite a certain gap from the winner, still manages to obtain a very good average that gives him an advantage over Casalini. Casalini, driver of the Agusta team, finished the race in fourth position preceded by Dell'Orto. Adding together the times of the three heats achieved by Spagnoli and Casalini, the 1960 European title of the KD 800 Kg goes to Spagnoli with 31'09"6 against the 31'17"6 of his opponent. Too bad for Casalini who in the last heat squandered the advantage he had accumulated over Spagnoli, obviously with little joy for Count Mario Agusta, owner of the Timossi-Maserati of the Milanese driver.

After the continental laurel, for Spagnoli the season is enriched by another great performance: the Coppa dell'Oltranza won with the new average of Km/h 131.566.

After the European Championship in Milan, the KD 800 racing cars will meet for a rematch in Campione d'Italia in the classic international meeting organized by MILA. (Motonautica Italiana Lario) on Ceresio. The KD 800 Kg world championship unfortunately takes place on an unfortunate day due to the terrible weather conditions: rain at times incessant and rather choppy waters, to the point that there will be quite a few pilots who will show signs of the tiring challenge in Campione.
The foreign participation pits the Maserati and Ferrari engines of our blues against three less powerful American boats Lauterbach-Chevrolet 4200 cc of about 250 HP: Bart Bartley, Don Donnington and Fuzzi Furlons. Also competing is the Frenchman Louis Delacour: a pilot already known to the Italians for having already competed in the 2800 sport racers class. For the occasion, the French driver debuts in the KD thanks to the Guidotti clan who provides him with the Timossi-Maserati 3500 already used by Giorgio and which clearly appears "inferior" to the competition. No less so is the last foreign competitor, the German Von Mayenburg who, on the beautiful silver racer named Mathea VIII from the Milanese S.Marco shipyard, continues to use a pre-war Alfa Romeo that the cloverleaf house already used, with little success, in car races when the German Auto Union and Mercedes were all the rage. Coming to our drivers, Nando Dell'Orto shows up with his powerful Ferrari 4500 supercharged and well prepared to be able to fight at best with the Maserati 5600 cc of his teammates (Guidotti Liborio and Flavio, Spagnoli, Casalini, Scarpa and Marchisio at his debut in a KD world championship).
Marchisio and Spagnoli used hulls from the Venetian Celli shipyard, Scarpa the San Marco and the other Italians took to the water with recently designed Timossi.
At the starting rocket of the opening heat of the world championship all twelve drivers present in this race jump: Flavio Guidotti immediately takes the lead with Dell'Orto and Marchisio and follow. But during the second lap the world championship ends for Marchisio: the Ezio Selva driver, in fact, in an attempt to keep the boat in front of Dell'Orto who in the circumstance had overtaken, enters the turn with too much determination and the disadvantage of having set the maneuver on the outside, in addition to the high speed penalizes him definitively. Marchisio, capsized, reports only an evident concussion, as for the hull the damage is mainly to the grilles, practically to throw away the nose, engine hood and cockpit. The heat, for the rest, does not offer particular points of interest: the victory goes to Flavio Guidotti with Dell'Orto in second position, third Casalini, fourth Scarpa, fifth and sixth respectively the Americans Bartley and Donnington. Disappointment for the overseas drivers who "suffer" from the winner Guidotti by about three minutes, with the consequent exit from the championship. Spagnoli also had trouble (only seventh): the former world champion, using a new Maserati, suffered a series of problems due to a somewhat sketchy set-up and decided to abandon the race definitively. Von Mayeburg and Delacour also disappeared after the poor performance of the first heat, while Liborio Guidotti was demoted for a bump in the buoy, dropping from fourth to ninth position. In the remaining heats, with the partners Guidotti, Dell'Orto and Casalini (Scarpa also withdrew) we witnessed the success of Flavio Guidotti over Dell'Orto in the second race, while the situation was reversed in the third heat with Dell'Orto winner over the attentive Flavio Guidotti, a race this one disputed under an incredible downpour. Adding the times achieved in the three tests by Guidotti Flavio (12'36"4, 13'46",13'46") and by Dell'Orto (12'58", 13'53"1,13'55"4) the 1960 world title of the KD 800 Kg goes to Flavio Guidotti ahead of his rival Dell'Orto and the ever-valid Carlo Casalini.


National titles and Records
In its second year of life, the racer V 1300 cc class does not register the assignment of the national title due to the failure to reach the minimum number of participants at the first seasonal outing in Piacenza. In my opinion, the rule itself appears questionable given that this class has more than 12 boats unlike other more famous ones that obtain the championship with no more than 5/6 competitors. The V 1300 racers were seen on the water, in addition to Piacenza, also in Angera, Porto Ferraio, Stresa, Pontelagoscuro (FE), Sesto Calende, Omegna, Auronzo, Venice and Milan. The greatest number of victories goes to Franco Caimi (4), then we find Giuseppe Vallini with 3,Fortunato Libanori with 2 and with one success the various Scarpa, Perziano, Sergio and Crespi.

But the greatest satisfaction in this class was achieved by Franco Gilberti who on 11 December, on the measured base of Sarnico, set the national speed record for the V 1300 with 134.310 km on board his San Marco Alfa Romeo "Giulietta".

On the same day, in the KE 1200 Kg class, again with a San Marco-Maserati 5600 cc hull, Oscar Scarpa attacks the record held by the English driver Buckley (194.11 Km/h). However, since Scarpa's hull was built with the intention of beating Castoldi's 1961 record of the KD 800 Kg, to enter the minimum weight limit of the 1200 Kg the driver ballasted the boat in various ways obtaining 801.900 Kg which allowed him to enter the category.
With two passages, the first ascending in 15"92 (Km/h 226.130) and the second descending in 15"70 (Km/h 229.299) at an average average of Km/h 227.714 the new record is in Scarpa's hands.

In the Italian inboard racing championship class Z 2500 cc undisputed success of Ermanno Marchisio (San Marco-BPM) who in the final standings precedes, as far as the first six positions are concerned, Maderna, Libanori, Bordoni, Coppier and Castiglioni Gian Franco. A class, the 2500 cc that is increasingly establishing itself with a series of races not only in Italy but also in the French international meetings of Monte Carlo and Paris.

Lastly, the top class of inboard racing, the KD 800 Kg, saw Flavio Guidotti also win the tricolor, with father Liborio in second place while third place went to debutant Ermanno Marchisio.

Again with the KD 800 Kg, Augusto Cometti from Verona, for the fifth time in his career and for the second consecutive year, won the Raid Pavia-Venezia with an average speed of 141.756 km/h, using a time of 2h52'16"; in second place overall, far behind, was Cesare Maderna (Timossi-BPM) paired with mechanic Augusto Nanfossi with a time of 4h29'55", a result that was undoubtedly excellent for the performance, but lower than expected given the lack of improvement in the average he himself had established the year before, again with a Timossi-BPM. Cometti also repeats himself in the Coppa d'Oro Theo Rossi Montelera with a speed, in the timed section Pontelagoscuro-Voltagrimana, of Km/h 166.195