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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 1926 Targa Florio was a Grand Prix motor race held on the 108km Medio Circuito Madonie in Sicily, Italy on 25 April 1926. There were two separate races...
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  • The 1927 Targa Florio was a Grand Prix motor race held on the 108 km Medio Circuito Madonie in Sicily, Italy on the 24th of April 1927. There were two...
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    fourth place in the prestigious Targa Florio. He won the Coppa Montenero at the difficult Montenero Circuit in 1925 and 1926, earning the nickname "King of...
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    Giulio Masetti (category 1926 deaths)
    (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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    winning the 1928 Targa Florio, she acquired a new Type 35B to keep her competitive with the top male racers. Race organiser Conte Vincenzo Florio arranged for...
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    the 1926 AAA Championship Car season held in the United States Major non-championship races are in bold Sources: The Targa Florio and the Coppa Florio were...
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  • Nürburgring, Sebring, Bonneville, Watkins Glen, Brooklands, Mille Miglia and Targa Florio. The museum's collection has been called "one of the finest collections...
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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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    Type 35A were produced. Bugatti introduced a special model for the 1926 Targa Florio race with engine displacement set to 2,262 cc (138.0 cu in) with a...
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    Tatra 12 (category Cars introduced in 1926)
    sheets, therefore the exterior was covered in artificial leather. The Targa Florio version was quite different from the serial production models. The engine...
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    Brooklands in 1924. André Dubonnet entered an H6C Boulogne in the 1924 Targa Florio. Powered by a 7,982 cc (487.1 cu in) straight 6 (estimated to produce...
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    Persiceto-Bologna. After 1914, most of the Coppa Florio races were co-organized with the Targa Florio at the Circuito delle Madonie circuit outside Palermo...
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    including the Etna Cup at Catania and the 1100cc class at the 1926 and 1927 Targa Florio where he beat fellow up-and-comer Luigi Fagioli. Borzacchini's...
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    Normale, Turismo and Sport. A total of 2,640 RLs were made. The RLTF (Targa Florio) was the race version of the RL. It weighed half as much as the standard...
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  • racing driver. He drove six races between 1926 and 1934 of which he won two. His last race, the 1934 Targa Florio, was run in bad weather and Alloatti went...
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    comply with the 1926-1927 Grand Prix formula which required a maximum displacement of 1.5 litres. At its debut race in the 1927 Targa Florio the Maserati...
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  • related season articles. List of 1926 motorsport champions "17^ TARGA FLORIO". targaflorio.info. Retrieved 16 April 2017. "1926 Indianapolis 500". racing-reference...
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    rivals, followed suit. The French Grand Prix was cancelled, leaving the Targa Florio in Italy and Vanderbilt Cup in the United States as the only major races...
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    French Grand Prix (Delage) 1926 - GP du Salon (Talbot) 1927 - ACF Libre (Talbot) 1928 - Targa Florio 1929 - Targa Florio (key) (Races in bold indicate...
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    21-year-old rookie showed his abilities with a fourth-place finish at the Targa Florio. His career was just getting going when World War I broke out and European...
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    Weymann Torpedo specifications on Virtuagarage". "1923 Steyr Type VI Targa Florio Rennwagen". conceptcarz.com. "1923 Steyr Type VI technical and mechanical...
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    debuted as a mechanic and co-driver alongside Alfieri Maserati in the 1926 Targa Florio. In 1947, he was promoted to the role of chief mechanic and test driver...
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    several GP victories between 1920 and 1926. He had victories in the 1920 Grand Prix season, winning the Targa Florio 1920 in a 4441 cm³ Nazzaro GP. Driving...
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  • ran on the successful 2-litre formula already in place. This year, the Targa Florio was a competition between the French teams of Bugatti and Peugeot as...
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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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    stipulations from Peugeot who had won the Coppa Florio in 1925, that race was not held in conjunction with the Targa Florio. Instead, the Coppa was raced in France...
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  • Maserati in motorsport (category 1926 establishments in Italy)
    with Guerino Bertocchi acting as riding mechanic won the Targa Florio 1,500 cc class in 1926, finishing in ninth place in overall. Maserati was very successful...
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    axle independent rear suspension and inboard brakes. In 1924, at the Targa Florio he drove 4.9-litre Steyr VI Kausen, but retired after 3 laps because...
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    of Targa Florio. In 1920 Alfa Romeo started producing proper racing cars with the RL and RM as well as the P1. Alfa Romeo would win the Targa Florio for...
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