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The Targa Florio was a public road endurance automobile race held in the mountains of Sicily near the island's capital of Palermo.^[1]

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Abarth

Abarth & C. S.p.A. is an Italian racing- and road-car maker and performance division founded by Italo-Austrian Carlo Abarth in 1949.

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Achille Varzi

Achille Varzi (8 August 1904 – 1 July 1948) was an Italian racing driver.

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Alain de Cadenet

Alain de Cadenet (27 November 1945 – 1 July 2022) was an English television presenter and racing driver.

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Albert Divo

Albert Divo (24 January 1895, in Paris – 19 September 1966, in Morsang-sur-Orge, Essonne, France) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver.

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Alessandro Cagno

Alessandro Umberto Cagno, Umberto Cagno, nicknamed Sandrin (2 May 1883 – 23 December 1971) was an Italian racing driver, Aviation pioneer and powerboat racer.

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Alexandre Charpentier

Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (1856–1909) was a French sculptor, medalist, craftsman, and cabinet-maker.

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Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian luxury carmaker known for its sports-oriented vehicles, strong auto racing heritage, and iconic design.

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Alfa Romeo 6C

The Alfa Romeo 6C name was used on road, race, and sports cars produced between 1927 and 1954 by Alfa Romeo; the "6C" name refers to the six cylinders of the car's straight-six engine.

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Alfa Romeo 8C

The Alfa Romeo 8C was a range of Alfa Romeo road, race and sports cars of the 1930s.

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The Alfa Romeo P2 won the inaugural Automobile World Championship in 1925, taking victory in two of the four championship rounds when Antonio Ascari drove it in the European Grand Prix at Spa and Gastone Brilli-Peri won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza after Ascari died while leading the intervening race at Montlhery.

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Alfa Romeo P3

The Alfa Romeo P3, P3 monoposto or Tipo B was a classic Grand Prix car designed by Vittorio Jano, one of the Alfa Romeo 8C models.

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Alfa Romeo RL

The Alfa Romeo RL was produced between 1922 and 1927.

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Alfa Romeo Tipo 33

The Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 was a sports racing prototype raced by the Alfa Romeo factory-backed team between 1967 and 1977.

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André Boillot

André Jacques Boillot (8 August 1891 – 8 June 1932) was a French racing driver.

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Antonio Brivio

Antonio Brivio Sforza (occasionally seen as Marchese Sforza Brivio; 27 December 1905 – 20 January 1995) was an Italian racing driver and bobsledder.

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Antonio Pucci (racing driver)

Antonio Pucci (1923, Petralia Sottana – 15 July 2009) was an Italian racing driver of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Aquila Italiana

Aquila Italiana (founded as the Società Anonima Aquila and quickly renamed the Società Anonima Italiana Aquila) was an Italian automobile manufacturer from 1906 to 1917.

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Arturo Merzario

Arturo Francesco "Art" Merzario (born 11 March 1943) (erroneously registered as Arturio on his birth certificate) is a racing driver from Italy.

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers.

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Automobiles Alpine

The Société des Automobiles Alpine SAS, commonly known as Alpine, is a French manufacturer of sports cars and racing cars established in 1955.

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Automobili Nazzaro

Automobili Nazzaro was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles from 1911 to 1916, and 1919–1923.

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Autostrade of Italy

The autostrade (autostrada) are roads forming the Italian national system of motorways.

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Ballot (automobile)

Ballot was a French manufacturer, initially of engines, that also made automobiles between 1919 and 1932.

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Bartolomeo Costantini

Bartolomeo "Meo" Costantini (14 February 1889 in Vittorio Veneto – 19 July 1941 in Milan) was an Italian aviator and racing car driver, known for being the sporting manager of the Bugatti car manufacturer.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF).

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Berliet

Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France.

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Brescia

Brescia (locally; Brèsa,; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy.

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Brian Redman

Brian Herman Thomas Redman (born 9 March 1937) is a British retired racing driver.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Bugatti

Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a German then French manufacturer of high-performance automobiles.

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Bugatti Type 35

The Bugatti Type 35 is an iconic race car design produced by Bugatti at their Molsheim premises between 1924 and 1930.

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Caltavuturo

Caltavuturo (Sicilian: Caltavuturu) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

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Campofelice di Roccella

Campofelice di Roccella (Sicilian: Campufilici di Ruccedda) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the Italian region of Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo.

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Carl Benz

Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz (born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine designer and automotive engineer.

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Carlo Maria Abate

Carlo Maria Abate (10 July 1932 – 29 April 2019) was an Italian auto racing driver.

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Carrera Panamericana

The Carrera Panamericana was a border-to-border sedan (stock and touring and sports car) rally racing event on open roads in Mexico similar to the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio in Italy. Targa Florio and Carrera Panamericana are sports car races and world Sportscar Championship races.

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Carrozzeria Allemano

Carrozzeria Allemano (established 1928, discontinued 1965) was an automobile coachbuilder in Turin, Italy, owned by Serafino Allemano.

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Cefalù

Cefalù (Cifalù), classically known as Cephaloedium (Kephaloídion), is a city and comune in the Italian Metropolitan City of Palermo, located on the Tyrrhenian coast of Sicily about east of the provincial capital and west of Messina.

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Cerda

Cerda is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the Sicily region, Southern Italy, located about southeast of Palermo.

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Chevron B36

The Chevron B36 was a Group 6 (later modified into Group C) prototype sports car, designed, developed, and built by British manufacturer Chevron Cars Ltd in 1976 and used in sports car racing until 1987.

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Chevron Cars Ltd

Chevron Cars Ltd. is an English manufacturer of racing cars, founded by Derek Bennett in 1965.

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Christian Werner

Christian Werner (19 May 1892 – 17 June 1932) was a German racing driver.

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Circuit de la Sarthe

The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race.

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Circuito delle Madonie

The Circuito delle Madonie was a road racing course made up of public roads, situated on the Italian island of Sicily, near the capital of Palermo, which hosted the famous Targa Florio event, between 1906 and 1977.

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Cisitalia

Cisitalia was an Italian sports and racing car brand named after "Compagnia Industriale Sportiva Italia", a business conglomerate founded in Turin in 1946 by industrialist and sportsman Piero Dusio.

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Clemente Biondetti

Clemente Biondetti (18 October 1898 – 24 February 1955) was an Italian auto racing driver.

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Colin Davis (racing driver)

Colin Charles Houghton Davis (29 July 1933 – 19 December 2012) was a British racing driver from England, who won the 1964 Targa Florio.

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Collesano

Collesano (translit; Kolesáno Sicilian: Culisanu) is a small town in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily.

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Coppa Florio

The Coppa Florio (or Florio Cup) was a motorsport race for automobiles first held in Italy in 1900. Targa Florio and Coppa Florio are auto races in Italy and sports car races.

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Cyril Snipe

Cyril Snipe (1888-1944) was a British motor racing driver who won the 1912 Targa Florio in Sicily driving an Italian SCAT motor car.

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Darracq and Company London

STD Motors, formerly Darracq & Company, was a French manufacturer of motor vehicles and aero engines based in Suresnes near Paris. The French enterprise, known at first as A. Darracq et Cie, was founded in 1896 by Alexandre Darracq after he sold his Gladiator Bicycle business. In 1903 Darracq sold the business to A Darracq and Company Limited of England, taking a substantial shareholding himself.

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Diatto

Diatto was an Italian manufacturing company founded in 1835 in Turin by Guglielmo Diatto (1804–1864) to make 'carriages for wealthy customers'.

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Dundrod Circuit

Dundrod Circuit is a motorsport street circuit used for the Ulster Trophy for Formula One and Formula Two cars from 1950 to 1953, the RAC Tourist Trophy for sports cars between 1950 and 1955, and for the motorcycle Ulster Grand Prix from 1953 onwards.

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Edgar Barth

Wilfried Edgar Barth (26 January 1917 – 20 May 1965) was a German (East German until 1957, then West German) Formula One and sports car racing driver.

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Eliška Junková

Eliška Junková-Khásová (born Alžběta Pospíšilová; 16 November 1900 – 5 January 1994), also known as Elisabeth Junek, was a Czechoslovak automobile racer.

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Emilio Materassi

Emilio Materassi (October 30, 1894 – September 9, 1928) was an Italian Grand Prix motor racing driver.

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Endurance racing (motorsport)

Endurance racing is a form of motorsport racing which is meant to test the durability of equipment and endurance of participants.

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Evan Green (journalist)

Evan Clifford Symons Green (21 May 1930 – 16 March 1996) was an Australian motoring publicist, journalist, TV commentator and novelist.

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; International Automobile Federation) is an association established on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users.

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Felice Bonetto

Felice Bonetto (9 June 1903 in Manerbio, near Brescia, Italy – 21 November 1953 in Silao, Mexico) was a courageous racing driver who earned the nickname Il Pirata (The Pirate).

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Felice Nazzaro

Felice Nazzaro (4 December 1881 – 21 March 1940) was an Italian racecar driver, a native of Turin.

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Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello.

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Ferrari 166 S

The Ferrari 166 S was a sports racing car built by Ferrari between 1948 and 1953, as a evolution of its Colombo V12-powered 125 S racer.

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Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa

The Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, or 250 TR, is a racing sports car built by Ferrari from 1957 to 1961.

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Ferrari 312 PB

The Ferrari 312 PB was a Group 6 Prototype-Sports Car introduced in 1971 by Italian carmaker Ferrari.

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Ferrari 512

Ferrari 512 S was a sports prototype car produced by Italian manufacturer Ferrari from 1969 to 1970.

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Ferrari SP

The Ferrari SP (also known as the Ferrari Dino SP) was a series of Italian sports prototype racing cars produced by Ferrari during the early 1960s.

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Fiat

Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (originally FIAT, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino) is an Italian automobile manufacturer, formerly part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and since 2021 a subsidiary of Stellantis through its Italian division Stellantis Europe.

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Fiat 600

The Fiat 600 (Seicento) is a small, rear-engined city car and economy family car made by Italian carmaker Fiat from 1955 to 1969 — offered in two-door fastback sedan and four-door Multipla mini MPV body styles.

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Franco Cortese

Franco Cortese (10 February 1903 in Oggebbio, Piedmont – 13 November 1986 in Milan) was an Italian racing driver.

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Frazer Nash

Frazer Nash was a brand of British sports car manufactured from 1922 first by Frazer Nash Limited founded by engineer Archibald Frazer-Nash.

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Fritz Huschke von Hanstein

Fritz Sittig Enno Werner von Hanstein (3 January 1911 – 5 March 1996) nicknamed "Huschke von Hanstein", was a German racing driver who from the 1950s served both as Porsche's public relations manager and chief of their racing department.

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Gérard Larrousse

Gérard Gilles Marie Armand Larrousse (born 23 May 1940) is a former sports car racing, rallying and Formula One driver from France.

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Gerhard Mitter

Gerhard Karl Mitter (30 August 1935 – 1 August 1969) was a German Formula One and sportscar driver.

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Gijs van Lennep

Jonkheer Gijsbert van Lennep (born 16 March 1942) is a Dutch racing driver who competed in eight Formula One races.

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Giovanni "Ernesto" Ceirano

Giovanni "Ernesto" Ceirano (1889-1956) was an Italian industrialist, son of Giovanni Ceirano, co-founder of Fabbrica Automobili Ceirano, co-owner of Aurea (Fabrica Anonima Torinese Automobili -F.A.T.A.) and two-time winner of the Targa Florio.

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Giulio Masetti

Giulio Masetti (1895 – 25 April 1926) was an Italian nobleman and racing driver, known as "the lion of Madonie" from his dominating the Targa Florio in the early 1920s.

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Grand Prix motor racing

Grand Prix motor racing, a form of motorsport competition, has its roots in organised automobile racing that began in France as early as 1894.

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Guido Meregalli

sGuido Meregalli (1894 – 1959) was an Italian racing driver, known from several GP victories between 1920 and 1926.

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Hans Herrmann

Hans Herrmann (born 23 February 1928) is a retired Formula One and sports car racing driver from Stuttgart, Germany.

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Helmut Marko

Helmut Marko (born 27 April 1943) is an Austrian former professional racing driver and a current director of the Red Bull Formula One teams, and head of Red Bull's driver development programme.

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Herbert Müller (racing driver)

Herbert Müller Rebmann (11 May 1940 – 24 May 1981) was a racing driver from Switzerland.

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Igor Troubetzkoy

Prince Igor Nikolayevich Troubetzkoy (Игорь Николаевич Трубецкой; 23 August 1912 – 20 December 2008) was a French aristocrat and athlete (skiing, cycling, car racing) of Russian descent.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Mannin, also Ellan Vannin) or Mann, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Isle of Man TT

The Isle of Man TT or Tourist Trophy races are an annual motorcycle racing event run on the Isle of Man in May and June of most years since its inaugural race in 1907.

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Isle of Man TT Mountain Course

The Isle of Man TT Mountain Course or TT Course or Jalmaf Mountain Course is a street and public rural road circuit located in the Isle of Man, used for motorcycle racing.

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Isotta Fraschini

Isotta Fraschini is an Italian luxury car manufacturer, also producing trucks, as well as engines for marine and aviation use.

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Itala (company)

Itala was a car manufacturer based in Turin, Italy, from 1904 to 1934, started by Matteo Ceirano and five partners in 1903.

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Italian Rally Championship

The Campionato Italiano Rally (CIR) or Italian Rally Championship is the main rally championship, which takes place in Italy.

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Jacky Ickx

Jacques Bernard Edmon Martin Henri "Jacky" Ickx (born 1 January 1945) is a Belgian former racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times (second-highest of all time) and achieved eight wins and 25 podium finishes in Formula One.

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Jaguar Cars

Jaguar is the sports car and luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England.

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Jean Porporato

Jean Porporato (born Giovanni Giacomo Bernardo Porporato, 3 November 1879 – unknown) was a French racing driver and mechanic.

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Jo Bonnier

Karl Jockum Jonas "Joakim" Bonnier (31 January 1930 – 11 June 1972) was a Swedish sportscar racing and Formula One driver who raced for various teams.

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Jo Siffert

Joseph Siffert (7 July 1936 – 24 October 1971) was a Swiss racing driver.

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Juan Manuel Fangio

Juan Manuel Fangio (24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995), was an Argentine racing driver.

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Karl Kling

Karl Kling (16 September 1910 – 18 March 2003) was a motor racing driver and manager from Germany.

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Lancia

Lancia is an Italian car manufacturer and a subsidiary of Stellantis Europe, which is currently a Stellantis division.

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Lancia Augusta

The Lancia Augusta is a small passenger car produced by Italian car manufacturer Lancia between 1933 and 1936.

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Lancia Aurelia

The Lancia Aurelia is a car produced by Italian manufacturer Lancia from 1950 to the summer of 1958.

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Lancia D24

The Lancia D24 was a sports racing car introduced by Lancia in 1953, and raced in the 1953 and 1954 seasons.

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Lancia Fulvia

The Lancia Fulvia (Tipo 818) is a car produced by Lancia between 1963 and 1976.

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Lancia Stratos

The Lancia Stratos HF (Tipo 829), known as Lancia Stratos, is a rear mid-engined sports car designed for rallying, made by Italian car manufacturer Lancia.

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Le Mans

Le Mans is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne.

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Leo Kinnunen

Leo Juhani "Leksa" Kinnunen (5 August 1943 – 26 July 2017) was a Finnish racing driver, and the first Formula One driver from Finland.

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Leonardo Bistolfi

Leonardo Bistolfi (14 March 1859 – 2 September 1933) was an Italian sculptor and an important exponent of Italian Symbolism.

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Leyland P76

The Leyland P76 is a large car that was produced by Leyland Australia, the Australian subsidiary of British Leyland.

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List of automobile races in Italy

Grand Prix and other major automobile races in Italy. Targa Florio and List of automobile races in Italy are auto races in Italy.

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Lola Cars

Lola Cars Limited is a British automobile manufacturer founded in 1958 by Eric Broadley in Bromley, England.

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Lombardy

Lombardy (Lombardia; Lombardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population.

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Lorenzo Bandini

Lorenzo Bandini (21 December 193510 May 1967) was an Italian motor racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Scuderia Centro Sud and Ferrari teams.

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Luigi Musso

Luigi Musso (28 July 1924 – 6 July 1958) was an Italian racing driver.

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Luigi Villoresi

Luigi Villoresi (16 May 1909 – 24 August 1997) was an Italian racing driver.

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Maserati

Maserati S.p.A. is an Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer.

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Maserati 4CL and 4CLT

The Maserati 4CL and its derived sister model the Maserati 4CLT are single-seat open-wheel Grand Prix racing cars that were designed and built by Maserati.

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Maserati 6CM

The Maserati 6CM is an Italian single-seater racing car, made by Maserati of Modena from 1936 to 1940 for the Voiturette racing class.

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Mercedes (car brand)

Mercedes was a brand originally created by the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) and used for first time in the 35 hp model released by the company in 1901.

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Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz, commonly referred to as Mercedes and sometimes as Benz, is a German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926.

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR

The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR (W 196 S) is a two-seat sports racing car that took part in the 1955 World Sportscar Championship before a catastrophic crash and fire at Le Mans later that year ended its domination prematurely.

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Mille Miglia

The Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles) was an open-road, motorsport endurance race established in 1927 by the young Counts Francesco Mazzotti and Aymo Maggi. Targa Florio and Mille Miglia are auto races in Italy, sports car races and world Sportscar Championship races.

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Mulsanne Straight

The Mulsanne Straight ("Straight Line of Les Hunaudières") is the name used in English for a formerly long straight of the Circuit de la Sarthe around which the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race takes place.

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Nino Vaccarella

Nino Vaccarella (4 March 1933 – 23 September 2021) was an Italian sports car racing and Formula One driver.

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O.S.C.A.

O.S.C.A. (Officine Specializzate Costruzione Automobili—Fratelli Maserati S.p.A.) was an Italian manufacturer of racing and sports cars established 1947 in San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, by the Maserati brothers, and closed down in 1967.

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Olivier Gendebien

Olivier Jean Marie Fernand Gendebien (12 January 1924 – 2 October 1998) was a Belgian racing driver.

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Osella

Osella is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former Formula One team.

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Osella PA4

The Osella PA4 is a Group 6 (Sports 2000) prototype racing car designed, developed, and built by Osella, to compete in the World Sportscar Championship sports car racing series between 1976 and 1980.

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Palermo

Palermo (Palermu, locally also Paliemmu or Palèimmu) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province.

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Paul Hawkins (racing driver)

Robert Paul Hawkins (12 October 1937 – 26 May 1969) was an Australian motor racing driver.

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Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver)

Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega (18 January 1940 – 11 July 1971) was a Mexican racing driver.

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Peter Collins (racing driver)

Peter John Collins (6 November 1931 – 3 August 1958) was a British racing driver.

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Peugeot

Peugeot is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis.

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Piero Taruffi

Piero Taruffi (12 October 1906 – 12 January 1988) was an Italian racing driver.

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Podium

A podium (podiums or podia) is a platform used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings.

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Polizzi Generosa

Polizzi Generosa (Sicilian: Pulizzi) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the island of Sicily, southern Italy.

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Porsche

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Porsche 550

The Porsche 550 is a racing sports car produced by Porsche from 1953 until 1956.

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Porsche 718

The Porsche 718 is a series of one- or two-seat sports-racing cars built by Porsche from 1957 to 1962.

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Porsche 904

The Porsche 904 is an automobile which was produced by Porsche in Germany in 1964 and 1965.

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Porsche 906

The Porsche 906 or Carrera 6 is a street-legal racing car from Porsche.

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Porsche 907

The Porsche 907 is a sportscar racing prototype built by Porsche in 1967 and 1968.

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Porsche 908

The Porsche 908 was a racing car from Porsche, introduced in 1968 to continue the Porsche 906-Porsche 910-Porsche 907 series of models designed by Helmuth Bott (chassis) and Hans Mezger (engine) under the leadership of racing chief Ferdinand Piëch.

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Porsche 910

The Porsche 910 or Carrera 10 was a race car from Porsche, based on the Porsche 906.

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Porsche 911

The Porsche 911 (pronounced Nine Eleven or in Neunelf) is a two-door 2+2 high performance rear-engined sports car introduced in September 1964 by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany.

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Porsche 917

The Porsche 917 is a sports prototype race car developed by German manufacturer Porsche to exploit the regulations regarding the construction of 5-litre sports cars.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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RAC Tourist Trophy

The RAC Tourist Trophy (sometimes called the International Tourist Trophy) is a motor racing award presented by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) to the overall victor of a motor race in the United Kingdom. Targa Florio and RAC Tourist Trophy are sports car races and world Sportscar Championship races.

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Rallying

Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed time or average speed.

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Regularity rally

A regularity rally, also called time-speed-distance or TSD rally, is a type of motorsport rally with the object of driving each segment of a course in a specified time at a specified average speed.

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Ricardo Rodríguez (racing driver)

Ricardo Valentín Rodríguez de la Vega (14 February 1942 – 1 November 1962) was a Mexican racing driver who competed in the 1961 and 1962 Formula One seasons.

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Richard Attwood

Richard James David "Dickie" Attwood (born 4 April 1940) is a British motor racing driver from England.

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Rolf Stommelen

Rolf Johann Stommelen (11 July 1943 – 24 April 1983) was a racing driver from Siegen, Germany.

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Rudolf Caracciola

Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola (30 January 1901 – 28 September 1959) was a German racing driver.

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S.P.A. (automobile)

S.P.A. (Società Piemontese Automobili) was an Italian automobile, military vehicle and aero-engine manufacturer founded in Turin by Matteo Ceirano and Michele Ansaldi.

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Sandro Munari

Sandro Munari (born 27 March 1940), also nicknamed 'Il Drago' (The Dragon) is a former motor racing and rally driver from Italy.

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SCAT (automobile)

The SCAT (Società Ceirano Automobili Torino) was an Italian automobile manufacturer from Turin, founded in 1906 by Giovanni Battista Ceirano.

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Scuderia Ferrari

Scuderia Ferrari is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer Ferrari and the racing team that competes in Formula One racing.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Sports car racing

Sports car racing is a form of motorsport road racing which utilises sports cars that have two seats and enclosed wheels.

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Steyr automobile

Steyr was an Austrian automotive brand, established in 1915 as a branch of the Österreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft (ÖWG) weapon manufacturing company.

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Stirling Moss

Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British Formula One driver.

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Targa Florio Rally

The Targa Florio Rally is a rally auto racing competition held in Sicily.

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Targa New Zealand

The Targa New Zealand is a tarmac rally held annually on public roads typically throughout the North Island of New Zealand.

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Targa Newfoundland

Targa Newfoundland, the only tarmac-based car rally in North America, began in 2002 in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and races over scenic coastal roads and through towns and outports.

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Targa Tasmania

Targa Tasmania is a tarmac-based rally event held on the island state of Tasmania, Australia, annually since 29 April 1992.

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Targa top

Targa top, or targa for short, is a semi-convertible car body style with a removable roof section and a full-width roll bar behind the seats.

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Tazio Nuvolari

Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari (16 November 1892 – 11 August 1953) was an Italian racing driver.

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Toine Hezemans

Antoine Emile "Toine" Hezemans (born 15 April 1943, in Eindhoven) is a Dutch former touring and prototype racing car driver in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Udo Schütz

Udo Schütz (born 11 January 1937) is a German entrepreneur, who was competing successfully with racing cars in the 1960s, and with yachts in the 1990s.

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Ugo Sivocci

Ugo Sivocci (August 29, 1885 - September 8, 1923) was an Italian racing driver.

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Umberto Maglioli

Umberto Maglioli (5 June 1928 – 7 February 1999) was a racing driver from Italy.

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Vic Elford

Victor Henry Elford (10 June 1935 – 13 March 2022) was an English sports car racing, rallying, and Formula One driver.

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Vincenzo Florio

Vincenzo Florio Jr. (18 March 1883 – 6 January 1959) was an Italian entrepreneur, heir of the rich Florio entrepreneurial dynasty, one of the wealthiest Italian families during the late 19th century.

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Vincenzo Lancia

Vincenzo Lancia (24 August 1881 – 15 February 1937) was an Italian racing driver, engineer and founder of Lancia.

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Vincenzo Trucco

Vincenzo Trucco (1905 – 1930) was an Italian racing driver from Milan.

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Willy Mairesse

Willy Mairesse (1 October 1928 – 2 September 1969) was a Formula One and sports-car driver from Belgium.

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Wolfgang Seidel

Wolfgang Seidel (4 July 1926 – 1 March 1987) was a racing driver from Germany.

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Wolfgang von Trips

Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips (4 May 1928 – 10 September 1961), also simply known as Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, was a German racing driver.

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World Sportscar Championship

The World Sportscar Championship was the world series run for sports car racing by the FIA from 1953 to 1992.

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12 Hours of Sebring

The 12 Hours of Sebring is an annual motorsport endurance race for sports cars held at Sebring International Raceway, on the site of the former Hendricks Army Airfield World War II air base in Sebring, Florida, US. Targa Florio and 12 Hours of Sebring are sports car races and world Sportscar Championship races.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targa_Florio

Also known as Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Mercedes-Benz Targa Florio, Taga florio, Targa Floria.

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