Mariscal broke the Record on the Circuito Puebla.
With his Ferrari, he took off determined to achieve it. The emotive comment was given by Ing. Gutierrez & Jose Luis Puente.
Puebla, December 14, 1958. Julio "Bache" Mariscal, aboard a Ferrari Testa Rossa, and running by himself (in class), given that there were no other entries in his class, he reached a new record on the 9th lap. Bache stopped the watch in 1'22.1", having achieved 153.648 KPH. His maximum velocity was 240 kph on the back section of the circuit. Mariscal ran in the third race of the Guadalupano IV Award, going 20 laps in a period of 28' 27.9", and his velocity was 147.540 kph total. Bache's prowess overcame what had been done first by the Italian Umberto Maglioli, and after that by Ricardo Rodriguez, in the circuit’s history.
Mariscal also took the Tourism D class honors in the morning's twenty lap race. He covered the competition's 70 kilometer distance in 37'50", driving his Opel Cadet.
Picture caption: Bache Mariscal departed with the intention to lower the record time, until yesterday Ricardo Rodriguez', and he did it aboard his Ferrari Testa Rossa. In this picture we see the National Champion taking a difficult curve in the Angelopolitan circuit while trying to
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