Umberto Maglioli competed in the most noteworthy sports car races beginning in the 1950s and concluding in 1967. It was after he won the world's oldest sports car race, the Targa Florio, that he was recruited to race for Scuderia Ferrari. He also raced in the Pan American Road Race in Mexico and various races in Buenos Aires and other locales in South America. Maglioli died of a severe illness in 1999. Umberto won the 1965 Targa Florio with Nino Vacarella in 1965.