• 1954 Carrera Panamericana was the fifth and final running of the Carrera Panamericana Mexican sports car racing event, run from November 19–23, 1954....
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  • 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...
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  • The 1953 Carrera Panamericana was the fourth running of the Carrera Panamericana Mexican sports car racing event, and the first edition as a part of the...
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    Ferrari 375 Plus (category Carrera Panamericana)
    by Ferrari in 1954. The model competed internationally, winning many major races, including 24 Hours of Le Mans, Carrera Panamericana, 1000km of Buenos...
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    Lancia D24 (category Carrera Panamericana)
    Manuel Fangio in the 1953 Carrera Panamericana, by Alberto Ascari in the 1954 Mille Miglia, and by Piero Taruffi in the 1954 Targa Florio and Giro di Sicilia...
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    raced with limited success in the Carrera Panamericana, scoring fourth place in 1953 and finishing second in 1954. Other major successes in 1953 included...
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    the highway follows Mexican Federal Highway 190. In the inaugural Carrera Panamericana road race, organized by the Mexican government, the terminus of this...
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    Hudson Wasp (section 1954)
    L-head engine upgrades for 1954. A Hudson Wasp competed in the grueling Carrera Panamericana race from 19 to 23 November 1954. It was held in eight stages...
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    Umberto Maglioli (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    Ferrari 375 MM with Mike Hawthorn. Maglioli also won the last Carrera Panamericana in 1954, driving the Ferrari 375 Plus. The same year he also won the...
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  • southern Mexican border with Guatemala. The Carrera Panamericana ran for five consecutive years from 1950 to 1954 and was a celebration of Mexico's completion...
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    Chuck Stevenson (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    Championship in 1952. Stevenson also had two class victories in the Carrera Panamericana and won a NASCAR Grand National event. Charles Joseph Stevenson was...
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  • race series. With legendary races such as the Mille Miglia and the Carrera Panamericana now part of the international race calendar, they were accompanied...
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  • Franz Hammernick (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    other event of note during Hammernick career, was during the 1954 Carrera Panamericana, when as one of the works Borgward drivers, he struck an embankment...
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    Nürburgring, and Mexico's Carrera Panamericana. Only ten W194s were made. This led to the iconic Mercedes 300 SL W198 Gullwing road car in 1954. The W194 was succeeded...
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    Günther Bechem (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    car racing with the Borgward team. In 1954 Bechem crashed heavily while competing in the Carrera Panamericana, and although he recovered fully from his...
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  • Jacqueline Evans (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    part in motorracing, like the 1953 and 1954 Carrera Panamericana. Murphy p.75 Daryl E. Murphy. Carrera Panamericana: History of the Mexican Road Race, 1950-54...
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    Franco Cornacchia who drove it with Gerino Gerini. After the 1954 Carrera Panamericana the car was sold to Mercedes-Benz dealer Manfredo Lippmann from...
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    the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Carrera Panamericana; the Carrera Panamericana win was commemorated with the Carrera branding for later Porsches with...
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  • Ernie McAfee (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    La Carrera Panamericana in 1953 as a driver of a Siata 208s, then as co-driver to Porfirio Rubirosa, who campaigned a Ferrari 500 Mondial in the 1954 race...
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    spaceframe's high sill beams. These were intended to race in the Carrera Panamericana which was cancelled because of safety concerns following the Le Mans...
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    1955–1956. After the racing successes of 375 Plus, mainly in 1954 Carrera Panamericana, Ferrari decided to prepare another model for this marathon. The...
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  • "Johnny Roberts". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 2014-01-09. "Carrera Panamericana 1954". Racing Sports Car. Retrieved 2015-09-09. "Jim Robinson". Motorsport...
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    driver Felice Bonetto when he suffered a fatal accident in the 1953 Carrera Panamericana. First Prince Bira and then Sergio Mantovani took over the drive...
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    Piero Taruffi (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    1953 Carrera Panamericana, with a time of 18:18:51 in a Lancia D24. His time was better than the previous year when he was victorious. In March 1954, Taruffi...
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    Alfonso de Portago (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    him to be his co-driver in the Carrera Panamericana. He later raced alone in a personal Ferrari Sport model at the 1954 1000 km Buenos Aires. Portago won...
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    Johnny Mantz (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    Walt Faulkner. He was a member of the Lincoln team in the first Carrera Panamericana in Mexico in 1950. He and Bill Stroppe were able to lead quite a...
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    1953 Carrera Panamericana race with starting number 199 driven by Joaquin Castillo de la Fuente and also raced in the 1954 edition of the Carrera Panamericana...
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    of his first photo expeditions was in 1953 to the Carrera Panamericana race in Mexico. Since 1954, he covered large European races such as 24 Hours of...
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    Consalvo Sanesi (category Carrera Panamericana drivers)
    A year later he won his class in the Carrera Panamericana. Sanesi entered an Alfa Romeo in the November 1954 Pan American race in Mexico. In the European...
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    Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (category Cars introduced in 1954)
    Mexico two 3+1⁄2-ton trucks and 35 people to compete in the third Carrera Panamericana. Two 300 SL coupes and two roadsters were updated with right-side...
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