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    Piero Dusio (13 October 1899 – 7 November 1975) was an Italian footballer, businessman, racing driver and racing car manufacturer. Dusio was born in Scurzolengo...
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    conglomerate founded in Turin in 1946 by industrialist and sportsman Piero Dusio. One of the most memorable cars manufactured by the company was the 202...
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    Piero Taruffi (12 October 1906 – 12 January 1988) was an Italian racing driver. He raced in Formula One from 1950 to 1956, winning the 1952 Swiss Grand...
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    in the Indianapolis 500, so it was left to his teammates Nino Farina and Piero Taruffi to secure the first two places on the grid. Farina led from the...
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  • starting in 1947. The following year, the manufacturer folded, and founder Piero Dusio flew to Argentina. Abarth, funded by Armando Scagliarini, took over Cisitalia's...
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    was controlled by Turinese industrialist and former Juventus player Piero Dusio through car house Cisitalia. Various members of the Agnelli family have...
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  • was controlled by torinese industrialist and former Juventus player Piero Dusio through car house Cisitalia. However, various members of the Agnelli...
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    six-cylinder was announced but was probably never built. At that time, Piero Dusio returned to Italy. In the 1950s, production was sporadic, and models...
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    past six years, obtained the club's majority shares after industrialist Piero Dusio, Cisitalia owner, transferred his capital shares in the ending of the...
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    result of Carlo Abarth's mediation, Ferry Porsche inked a contract with Piero Dusio to produce Grand Prix racing cars again. The new model was called the...
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  • of the first race cars to do so. The car was commissioned by Piero Dusio in 1946. Dusio paid a large sum of money upfront, part of which was used to free...
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    private club belonging to the rival car manufacturer Cisitalia, chaired by Piero Dusio, to an independent company with private capital with limited liability...
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    time to save Cisitalia's business fortunes—the company's bankrupt owner Piero Dusio had already decamped to Argentina. The Cisitalia 202 SC gained considerable...
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    the repair of automobiles, water pumps, and winches. A contract with Piero Dusio was completed for a Grand Prix motor racing car, the Type 360 Cisitalia...
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    Champion Alberto Ascari ahead of teammates Farina and Taruffi. ^1 — Carlo Dusio, named substitute driver for the #44 Cisitalia-BPM, took no part in the...
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    accompanying Coppa Brezzi at the same venue the following Tuesday, with founder Piero Dusio behind the wheel. The race was run to the 1947 Grand Prix Formula technical...
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    family-friend Ferry Porsche, and, together with engineer Rudolf Hruska and Piero Dusio, he established the Compagnia Industriale Sportiva Italia (CIS Italia...
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  • Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager (d. 1978) 1899 – Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and racing driver (d. 1975) 1900 – Gerald...
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  • Prix 6 Luigi Fagioli 53 years, 22 days 1st 1951 French Grand Prix 7 Piero Dusio 52 years, 330 days DNQ 1952 Italian Grand Prix 8 Adolf Brudes 52 years...
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    the Scuderia Torino (with a V8-RI for Trossi and an older 6C-34 for Piero Dusio) and the Scuderia Marammana (with a pair of the 6C-34s for Biondetti...
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  • Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author and academic (b. 1899) 1975 – Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver (b. 1899) 1978 –...
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    did not finish; Farina crashed and Eugenio Siena had a blown engine. Piero Dusio finished third in a privately entered 8C 2900A. One of the 2800B Mille...
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    1948, while the 204 was being developed, Cisitalia folded and founder Piero Dusio left for Argentina. As part of his severance from Cisitalia, Abarth obtained...
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    sold an additional 18 to 25 examples of this body to Argentina, where Piero Dusio marketed them as Cisitalias. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fiat...
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    1986 0 16 15 0 0 0 0 3 Len Duncan  United States 1954 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 Piero Dusio  Italy 1952 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 George Eaton  Canada 1969–1971 0 13 11 0...
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    the Cisitalia, a car factory belonging to the then Juventus president Piero Dusio. In Torino play the goalkeeper Luigi Griffanti, from the national team...
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    lap Driver Achille Varzi Maserati Time 1:07.0 on lap 4 Podium First Achille Varzi Maserati Second Piero Dusio Maserati Third Giovanni Rocco Maserati...
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    and 1100E which was produced until 1953. Wealthy Italian industrialist Piero Dusio approached Giacosa in 1944 with a request to design a single seat racing...
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    Piero Dusio of Cisitalia, where he first developed brochure illustrations and began his career as an automobile designer. On introduction from Dusio,...
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    Mercedes lined up against a full team of three Bugattis (Wimille, Benoist and Piero Taruffi). There were three Alfa Romeos; two from Scuderia Ferrari (Nuvolari...
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