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Felice Nazzaro - Victory for Fiat

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Created on November 1, 1972

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Wolfgang Scharmbeck

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Fiat 18 20 HP (1907) - Felice Nazzaro wins the second Targa Florio in 1907

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Fiat S.74 Corsa (1911) - sufficient spare tires

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Fiat 525 SS (1930) - Felice Nazzaro at the "Coppa delle Venzie"

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Fiat S.76 300 HP Record (1911) - The word "monster" sums up the appearance of this vehicle perfectly, but is by no means to be understood negatively.

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Fiat 8-B (1907) - Here, Nazzaro races towards the finish line in the Kaiserpreis race on June 14, 1907, leaving all the competition behind.

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With this 18-liter Fiat, Nazzaro successfully competed against the English challenge Napier in 1908.

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Nazzaro's stablemate Vincenzo Lancia was a serious rival, but here in Dieppe he was unable to place.

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Fiat 8 Liter (1907) - Felice Nazzaro at the Kaiserpokal in the Taunus region - he wins after 5 hours 34 minutes and 26 seconds, with a five-minute lead

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Summary

The racing driver Felice Nazzaro turned out to be a real stroke of luck for Fiat - he brought the brand several notable victories in international motorsport. All these victories and Nazzaro's success meant that the competition had to keep upgrading in order to keep up with the Turin-based company. The performance improvements escalated and brought true monsters onto the road. This report tells the whole story of Nazzaro and describes the "monsters" that made the roads unsafe at the time.

This article contains the following chapters

A monster as a weapon
Sporting success as a measure of quality
A surprise attack by an outsider
Advance praise and a double victory
Kaiser Prize
Exclusively for the French GP
Increase to the limit
A true monster for the road

Estimated reading time: 5min

Preview (beginning of the article)

In the history of motor racing, 1907 can confidently be described as the Fiat year. The fact that Vincenzo Lancia had won the 1904 race in Brescia in a 75 hp Fiat was still fresh in the memory. The following year, the Italian brand even managed to set the best time at Mont Ventoux, which astonished the French competition. Such successful brands as Darracq, De Dietrich, Mors and Rochet-Schneider had prepared for this famous hill climb in 1905, and at best the Mercedes under Thery was still reckoned to be a serious opponent. But in their 100 hp monster, the ambitious Turin team had a weapon with which they could break all previous records.

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