Coppa Florio

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1907 poster showing the Coppa Florio on 1 September and Coppa di Velocità on 2 September.

The Coppa Florio (or Florio Cup) was a motorsport race for automobiles first held in Italy in 1900. It was renamed in 1905 when Vincenzo Florio offered the initial 50,000 Lira prize money and a cup designed by Polak of Paris. The cup was to be awarded to the car maker who gained the most wins in the first seven races, beginning with the race held in 1905. In the event, the first seven races were all won by different manufacturers, but Peugeot won the eighth race in 1925 and thus secured the cup with its second win. However, the competition for the cup continued after Lucien Rosengart, then a director of Peugeot, offered to make it available again.

The Brescia race ran along the route Brescia-Cremona-Mantua-Brescia. In 1908, the race used the Circuito di Bologna: Bologna-Castelfranco Emilia-Sant'Agata Bolognese-San Giovanni in Persiceto-Bologna.[1] After 1914, most of the Coppa Florio races were co-organized with the Targa Florio at the Circuito delle Madonie circuit outside Palermo, Sicily, running four or five laps, 108 km each. Only in 1927 did the race move to Saint-Brieuc, in honour of Peugeot's second win in 1925.[2][3] The race attracted teams from around Europe as well as the 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeams from England [4] and was an opportunity to see Sir Henry Segrave and Jean Chassagne competing.[5] The winners were:[6][7][8]

From 1974, the Coppa Florio was revived as a sports car race held at the Autodromo di Pergusa in Sicily. The race counted towards the World Sportscar Championship most years from 1975, last being held in 1981. In 2020, the Coppa Florio was again revived at Pergusa, being the fifth round of the 2020 24H GT and TCE Series as the Coppa Florio 12 Hours of Sicily.[9][10] The race was again confirmed as part of the 24H Series calendar, of 2021, being the seventh round of 8 events scheduled for the 2 and 3 of October,[11] but was later cancelled.[12]

Past winners

Edition Date Circuit Winner Vehicle Time
-- 10 September 1900 Brescia Template:Flagicon Alberto Franchetti[13] Panhard & Levassor 12 HP n/a
-- 5 September 1904 Brescia Template:Flagicon Vincenzo Lancia Fiat 75 HP 2*167 km=372.2 km in 3h12m
I 4 September 1905 Brescia Template:Flagicon Giovanni Battista Raggio Itala 112 HP 3*167 km=500.7 km in 4h46m
II 1 September 1907 Brescia Template:Flagicon Ferdinando Minoia Isotta Fraschini 8*60 km=485.7 km in 4h39m
III 6 September 1908 Bologna Template:Flagicon Felice Nazzaro Fiat 10*52 km=528.1 km in 4h25m[1]
IV 31 May 1914 Madonie Template:Flagicon Felice Nazzaro Nazzaro 3*148 km=446.5 km in 8h11m
V 4 September 1921 Brescia Template:Flagicon Jules Goux Ballot 3L 519 km in 3h35m
VI 19 November 1922 Madonie Template:Flagicon André Boillot Peugeot 432 km in 7h09m
VII 27 April 1924 Madonie Template:Flagicon Christian Werner Mercedes-Benz TF 432 km in 6h32m
VIII 3 May 1925 Madonie Template:Flagicon André Boillot Peugeot 432 km in 6h04m
IX 25 April 1926 Madonie Template:Flagicon Bartolomeo Costantini Bugatti Type 35T 540 km in 7h20m
X 17 July 1927 Saint-Brieuc Template:Flagicon Robert Laly Ariès n/a
XI 6 May 1928 Madonie Template:Flagicon Albert Divo Bugatti Type 35B n/a
XII 5 May 1929 Madonie Template:Flagicon Albert Divo Bugatti Type 35C n/a

Winners of revived race

The following is a list of winners of the revived race held at Pergusa:[10]

Year Winner Vehicle
1974 Template:Flagicon John Fitzpatrick Porsche Carrera RSR
1975 Template:Flagicon Arturo Merzario
Template:Flagicon Jochen Mass 		Alfa Romeo 33TT12
1976 Template:Flagicon Rolf Stommelen
Template:Flagicon Jochen Mass 		Porsche 936
1977 Template:Flagicon Arturo Merzario Alfa Romeo 33SC12
1978 Template:Flagicon Gimax
Template:Flagicon Giorgio Francia 		Osella PA6-BMW
1979 Template:Flagicon Lella Lombardi
Template:Flagicon Enrico Grimaldi 		Osella PA7-BMW
1980 Not held
1981 Template:Flagicon Emilio de Villota
Template:Flagicon Guy Edwards 		Lola T600-Ford
1982
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2019 		Not held
2020 Template:Flagicon Frédéric Fatien
Template:Flagicon Jordan Grogor
Template:Flagicon Mathieu Jaminet
Template:Flagicon Robert Renauer 		Porsche 911 GT3 R

References

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  1. ↑ a b Ricorda del circuito di Bologna 1908 Template:Webarchive
  2. ↑ Coppa Florio 1927 discussion
  3. ↑ 1927 Coppa Florio
  4. ↑ Targa Florio, W F Bradley P82-83
  5. ↑ Rapiditas Vol.5 1922-1923 P.60
  6. ↑ GP Winners 1894-2007 from forix.com
  7. ↑ Coppa Florio from targaflorio.info
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