Circuit Racing
No 206S were entered in the 1966 Daytona 24h, thus their first 1966 World Sportscar Championship racing result was a fifth place in the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring, driven by Lorenzo Bandini and Ludovico Scarfiotti, behind three Ford GT40 and the best of several Porsche 906, thus only second in the P 2.0 class. Several Porsche 906 dominated this class also in the first Ferrari home race, the 1966 1000km Monza, that was won by a 330P4. Three 206S entered the 1966 Targa Florio the same year under Ferrari SEFAC team, while 11 Porsche 906 showed up, most of them customer sportscars as their homologation was now in effect for the S 2.0 class. After the two leading works Porsche prototypes had eliminated each other in a collision, a Swiss customer Porsche 906 Sportscar won the Targa overall, while Jean Guichet and Giancarlo Baghetti finished the race in second place overall and also with the 2 litre prototype class win. The other two 206S finished fourteenth and not at all.[12]
The 1966 1000 km Spa netted another Ferrari V12 overall win, and for the 206S V6 of Richard Attwood/Jean Guichet sixth overall and first in the prototype 2.0 class as non of the factory Porsche 906 prototypes finished, only one of the Sportscar variant did. Another Porsche drama followed at the 1966 1000 km Nürburgring, where a 5.4-litre Chaparral won 90 seconds[13] ahead of the better of two Dino 206S driven by Scarfiotti and Bandini who won the Prototype 2.0 class.[14] Third was Pedro Rodríguez and Richie Ginther's factory car out of four Dino cars that were entered, with the semi-private Maranello Concessionaires DNF and the private Drummond Racing not showing up. The best 906 prototype was one lap down in fourth place, but two laps down, on places 7 to 11, were no less than four private 906 Sportscars, sandwiching the private Scuderia Filipinetti Ferrari 250LM Sportscar.
These three consecutive P 2.0 class wins in the 1966 World Sportscar Championship were the highlight of the Dino 206S road racing history. The remaining two WSC rounds with prototype classes, Le Mans and Hockenheim, were won by Porsche. For the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, no less the six private 206S were entered, but only three started, each DNF within 3 hours.
Some good results in non-WC races followed. Rodriguez also scored a class win at the Nassau Trophy. At the Brands Hatch GP circuit, Mike Parkes scored sixth overall and first in class. The Dino 206 S won VI Coppa Citta di Enna. Also in 1966, the Swiss Mountain Grand Prix was won by Ludovico Scarfiotti overall, but only the Sportscars classes counted towards the WSC. At the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, all entered 206S disappeared soon while no less than four Porsche 906 finished behind three Ford GT40 with 7 litre V8 engines, thus Ferrari was defeated in both categories.
In the 1967 World Sportscar Championship P 2.0 class, the competition entered newer cars, while Ferrari still used the pre-produced supply of 206S. Ferrari managed only one WSC finish with points in that class, at the 1967 Targa Florio, fourth behind a Podium sweep of three Porsche 910. Also, in 1967, Swedish driver Gustaf Dieden finished Swedish National Falkenberg and GP Swerige in fifth and ninth respectively. Ferdinando "Codones" Latteri and Pietro Lo Piccolo scored many overall and class wins between 1967 and 1969.[15]
Hillclimbing
Ludovico Scarfiotti, a 1962 and 1965 European Hill Climb champion entered, with success, many hillclimb events in the 206 S. His 1965 championship was achieved in an earlier Dino model, the 206 SP. From June 1966, he contested the series as part of a Scuderia Sant'Ambroeus entry. He drove a works prototype Dino, s/n 0842. Scarfiotti scored a second place at Rossfeld and an overall win in the Cesana-Sestriere hillclimb. The Freiburg-Schauinsland hillclimb also yielded a second position with another victory at Sierre-Montana.[3] And so for 1966, Ludovico Scarfiotti achieved a second overall place at the European Hill Climb Championship, behind Gerhard Mitter in a dominant Porsche 910 Coupé.[16] Next year he participated in a one more hillclimb, this time at the very challenging Trento-Bondone, finishing second overall and a second in class as well.
A Scuderia Sant'Ambroeus also fielded Edoardo Lualdi-Gabardi in the hillclimbing events. Lualdi had raced two cars throughout the 1966–1968. In 1966, his 206 S Spyder s/n 016, was used in no less than fifteen different hillclimbing races, winning six of them overall, with additional four-second places and simultaneous class wins to his name.[17]
