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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 52° Targa Florio took place on 5 May 1968, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily (Italy). The event was marked by the absence of Scuderia...
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    The 53rd Targa Florio took place on 4 May 1969, on the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, Sicily (Italy). For this event, Porsche deployed an unparalleled...
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    achievements include having won the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the Targa Florio in 1965, 1971 and 1975, the latter year when it no longer was a World...
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    Porsche 911 (redirect from Porche Targa)
    naturally aspirated 911 Carrera RSR won world championship races including Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Daytona. The 911-derived 935 turbo also won the 24...
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  • Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 (category Targa Florio)
    who used bigger engines. In 1968, the car was used mainly by privateers, winning its class in the 1000km Monza, Targa Florio and Nürburgring races. At the...
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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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    ever overall win in a 24-hour race. Later that year, he also won the Targa Florio teamed with veteran Umberto Maglioli in a famous come-from-behind race...
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    the heavy Porsche 917 on twisty tracks that favored nimble cars, like Targa Florio and Nürburgring. Sold off to privateers for 1972, various 908s were entered...
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    Abarth 3000 SP (category Cars introduced in 1968)
    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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    Governor's Trophy, Nassau. The following year the car was entered in the Targa Florio and finished seventh overall. Numerous replicas had been made of this...
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    1000 km and the Targa Florio. This car was raced at every event by JW Automotive and Porsche Salzburg in the 1970 season except the Targa Florio and the Nürburgring...
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    Porsche 917, but also the nimble Porsche 908/3 on twisty tracks like Targa Florio and 1000km Nürburgring. the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans During the 1970s...
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    version was offered alongside from 1968). The name "Targa" – plate or plaque in Italian – came from the Targa Florio sports car road race in Sicily, in...
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  • motor racing, with drivers Franchini and Ronzoni competing in the 1911 Targa Florio with two 24-hp models. In August 1915, the company came under the direction...
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  • Hour, races for Grand tourer cars, and racing on road courses of the Targa Florio, the Mille Miglia, and the Carrera Panamericana. The team is also known...
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    the 1966-1968 European Hillclimb Championships against Ferrari, the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona (Porsche 907, in class) and the 1969 Targa Florio (Porsche...
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    Grand Touring cars.: 583–588  That same month two cars were sent to the Targa Florio for testing, not as competitors. These were the first two 914/6 GT cars...
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  • 1000 km Monza, Porsche 911 T, DNF 4 May 1969, Targa Florio, Porsche 911 T, 48th 4 May 1969, Targa Florio, Porsche 911 S, T-car 11 May 1969, 2 h Budapest...
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    four victories at Spa-Francorchamps, Brian has overall wins in the 1970 Targa Florio, the Watkins Glen 6 Hours, the 12 Hours of Sebring twice, the Nurburgring...
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  • Car Racing. Giunti was born in Rome. In 1968, driving for Alfa Romeo, he finished second in the Targa Florio and fourth in the Le Mans 24 Hours race co-driving...
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    retired from the race with a fuel feed issue. The team skipped the 1969 Targa Florio. Matra planned to have Servoz-Gavin/Beltoise and Guichet ( who was scheduled...
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    they could drive the twisty, winding Targa Florio course in a 908/03. Ferrari only entered one car in the Targa Florio, driven by Giunti and Vaccarella,...
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    Stommelen won the 24 Hours of Daytona four times: in 1968, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the Targa Florio in 1967 in a Porsche 910. Stommelen won the pole position...
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    Championship points Targa Florio: 1st, 1970 Coppa Cittá di Enna: 1st, 1968 12 hours of Sebring: 1st, 1968 24 hours of Daytona: 1st, 1968 6 Hours of Nürburgring:...
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    Watkins Glen 6 Hours 1968–71, 1973–80 In the early years, now legendary races such as the Mille Miglia, Carrera Panamericana and Targa Florio were part of the...
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    Le Mans. He took part in now legendary road races like Mille Miglia, Targa Florio and Carrera Panamericana and is one of the few remaining witnesses of...
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    Rally—winning the Targa Florio section and placing 13th overall. Leyland Australia celebrated this victory by releasing a limited edition Targa Florio model: the...
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    3) overall 7th Targa Florio, 1st: 1965 (in class GT1.6) overall 7th 6 Hours of Nürburgring, 1st: 1965 6 Hours of Watkins Glen, 1st: 1968 1000 km of Nürburgring...
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    1000 SP (1972). Original orange in colour, prototype entered the 1972 "Targa Florio" but did not start due to an accident. Repainted blue when repaired by...
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