Coppa Florio

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]

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

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

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