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1907 poster showing the Coppa Florio on 1 September and Coppa di Velocita 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.
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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.
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[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
.
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[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
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Winners of revived race
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The following is a list of winners of the revived race held at Pergusa:
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References
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