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The race was held on a twisty track laid in El Gezirah, a small island on the Nile in Cairo's residential district. Only 6000 spectators showed up on a sunny day, mostly sitting on the top rows of the stands, leaving the bottom ones unoccupied, probably by fear; the cars wore race numbers also in Arabic on the right side of the tail.
After heats won by Cortese and Taruffi, ten cars qualified for the final. Taruffi started in front from Cortese, Dusio and Ascari who overtook Dusio after ten laps. Towards the end of the race the nuts fixing the carburettor in Taruffi's car got loose and he had to slow down and was passed by Cortese and Ascari.
Cortese won and was awarded a cup of solid gold presented to him by King Farouk in person.
Race Table [4],[5]:
Sehab Almaz Bey Trophy
• March 9th, 1947
• El Gezirah (Cairo), Egypt
• 2 heats: 25 laps x 1.480 km = 37.5 km, final 50 laps = 75 km
• Monotype race for Cisitalia D46
• Weather: sunny
• Spectators: 6000
• 16 starters
Results:
Heat 1
1.Franco Cortese, 25 laps in 23:24,4, 96,147 km/h
2.Piero Dusio, 23:30,8
3.Mario Tadini, 24:14,2
4.Nello Pagani, 24:33
5.Ciro Basadonna, 24:38
6.Omobono Tenni
7.Giovanni Lurani
• DNF: Raymond de Saugé, accident
Heat 2
1.Piero Taruffi, 25 laps in 23:05,6, 97,451 km/h
2.Alberto Ascari, 23:27,6
3.Dorino Serafini, 23:28,9
4.Sergio Banti, 23:43
5.Pietro Ghersi, 24:44
6.Antonio Brivio
7.... Marinotti
• DNF: Louis Chiron, oil leak
Final
1.Franco Cortese, 50 laps in 45:49,3, 98,2 km/h
2.Alberto Ascari, 46:02,1
3.Piero Taruffi, 46:03,3
4.Pietro Dusio, 46:04,4
5.Mario Tadini
6.Ciro Basadonna
7.Dorino Serafini
Fastest lap: Piero Taruffi, 51", 108.112 (?)
• DNF: Nello Pagani
• DNF: Sergio Banti
• DNF: Pietro Ghersi
While the drivers were lavishly entertained by the Egyptian court and thoroughly enjoyed their trip, the event was a financial disaster.
Dusio's Swiss partners backed off not seeing any future in this kind of racing and he had to pay them out digging deeply into his personal assets.