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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. Founded in 1906, it...
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    The 39a Targa Florio took place on 16 October, around the Circuito delle Madonie, Sicily, Italy. It was also the sixth and final round of the F.I.A. World...
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    The 44° Targa Florio took place on 8 May 1960, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, (Sicily, Italy). It was the third round of the F.I.A. World Sports...
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  • The 42° Targa Florio took place on 11 May, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, (Sicily, Italy). It was the third round of the 1958 World Sportscar Championship...
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  • The 45° Targa Florio took place on 30 April 1961, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, (Sicily, Italy). It was the second round of the F.I.A. World Sports...
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  • The 43° Targa Florio was a motor race for sportscars held on 24 May 1959 on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily, Italy. It was the second round...
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    Stirling Moss (section 1955)
    Moss also won the RAC Tourist Trophy, the Targa Florio (with Peter Collins), and the Mille Miglia. In 1955 Moss won Italy's one-thousand-mile Mille Miglia...
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    Trophy 1953–64 12 Hours of Sebring 1953– Carrera Panamericana 1953–54 Targa Florio 1955–73 1000 km Monza 1963–2008 1000 km Spa 1963– 12 Hours of Reims 1964–65...
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  • with an event new to the championship, the legendary road race, the Targa Florio. As a result of the Le Mans disaster, both the 1000 km Nürburgring and...
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    one of the cars home finishing second at the Targa Florio (an FIA World Sportscar Championship race from 1955–1973). In 1959, the car, driven by Edgar Barth...
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    Battista Ceirano. The company was active from 1906 to 1932 and achieved Targa Florio wins in 1911, 1912 and 1914. The first produced models were the 12 HP...
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    Clemente Biondetti (category 1955 deaths)
    1948 Targa Florio in Ferrari 166 S. Biondetti and Navone wins 1948 Mille Miglia in Ferrari 166 S. Biondetti and Benedetti wins 1949 Targa Florio in Ferrari...
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    scored a total of 3 1⁄3 championship points. He participated in the Targa Florio race nineteen times, winning it three times, and the Mille Miglia ten...
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  • got past a road-going prototype. Richardson also took part in the Targa Florio in 1955, and the Intercontinental Formula that was devised as a rival to...
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    Trophy at Dundrod, Ireland, and a 1-2 at the Targa Florio in Sicily, earning Mercedes victory in the 1955 World Sportscar Championship, two points ahead...
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    German team at the 1955 Tourist Trophy, so Lampredi went back to the drawing board for the next season. At the 1955 Targa Florio, the 857 S came third...
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    1955 World Sportscar Championship season was completed, with the remaining two races at the British RAC Tourist Trophy and the Italian Targa Florio,...
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    Lancia D24 (category Targa Florio)
    the 1954 Mille Miglia, and by Piero Taruffi in the 1954 Targa Florio and Giro di Sicilia. In 1955, the President of Lancia presented a D24 to President...
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  • "Le Mans Register - 1955". formula2.net. Retrieved 16 April 2017. "39^ TARGA FLORIO". targaflorio.info. Retrieved 16 April 2017. "1955 Macau Grand Prix"...
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    that car and later the Lancia D20 and D24. He competed in Mille Miglia, Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Among his teammates were Luigi Segre and...
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    practice for the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix put Herrmann out for the ill-fated 1955 season, even though a comeback in the Targa Florio was intended. The...
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    this time forward: GTs raced in world championship rounds at the Targa Florio from 1955, Nürburgring from 1956, Sebring from 1957, Le Mans from 1959, and...
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  • racing event on open roads in Mexico similar to the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio in Italy. Running for five consecutive years from 1950 to 1954, it was...
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    itself in the Carrera Panamericana, the Targa Florio and the Mille Miglia. The team also entered Formula 1 in 1954-1955, without particularly shining. The...
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  • competed with the number 28 in the Guastalla Scuderia at the XXXVII Targa Florio, driven by Giulio Musitelli and placed 21st out of 45 cars and 22 arrivals...
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    car for the first time in a race of the brand world championship, the Targa Florio. However, Mario Casoni had an accident during training, so only one car...
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  • Merosi, which became commercially successful and participated in the 1911 Targa Florio endurance race. In August 1915, ALFA was acquired by Neapolitan entrepreneur...
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    Porsche its first overall win in a major sports car racing event, the 1956 Targa Florio. During this era Porsche was the first car manufacturer to get race sponsorship...
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    Pistoiese). In 1926 he managed to get a fourth place in the prestigious Targa Florio. He won the Coppa Montenero at the difficult Montenero Circuit in 1925...
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    in the Targa Florio race. In 1953 Lanza di Trabia married the actress Olga Villi and had two daughters, Venturella (1953) and Raimonda (1955). Lanza...
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