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Targa Florio 1926 - second of five Bugatti victories

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Created on May 7, 2026

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Gerhard Schütz, translated by DeepL

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Archiv Gerhard Schütz

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - Roger Benoist's works car

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Itala Special (1926) - The Itala at the start and finish

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - Powerful Delage

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - masterpiece with 12 cylinders - inspiration for Enzo Ferrari

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - Benoist, Divo (in the car) and Thomas

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - Masetti before his accident

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Itala Special (1926) - With 2 tons through the Sicilian mountains

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Bugatti 35T (1926) - the Targa Bugatti

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - Masetti's fatal accident

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Maserati Tipo 26 (1926) - The first Maserati with Alfieri Maserati at the wheel

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Maserati Tipo 26 (1926) - Maserati still drives with a mechanic (Bertocchi)

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - Masetti's fatal rollover

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Delage 2 LCV (1926) - V-12, 4 OHC - marvel of technology, only 30 years after the De Dion single cylinder

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Peugeot 174 S (1926) - here in 1926 before the 24-hour race at Le Mans

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Peugeot 174S (1926) - a long wheelbase of 3.2 m demanded a lot from the driver on the winding Targa Florio route

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Om 665 (1926) - by Renato Balestrero

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Summary

After Bugatti's victory the previous year, there was huge pressure to continue the success in 1926. They succeeded - but not in the way they had hoped. For the first time in the twenty-year history of the race, a fatal accident overshadowed the victory.

This article contains the following chapters

The competitors
Bugatti 35T
Delage 2 LCV
Peugeot 174S
Maserati Tipo 26
Itala
The race
Targa Florio 1926

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Founded in 1906 by Conte Vincenzo Florio, this international race in the Sicilian mountains was one of the most spectacular of the racing season until 1977. The country road course, which was still partly unpaved in the early years, always provided dramatic scenes and thrilling images. Nowhere else was racing so intensively embedded in the landscape, nowhere else was it so close to the regional population and the public - unthinkable from today's perspective, the age of the retort racetrack. This makes it all the more appealing to revive such pure racing in text and pictures. After two years of Mercedes dominance, a new era began in 1925 - that of Bugatti. The legendary Type 35 won five times in a row from 1925 to 1929 ( more about the Targa Florio 1924 ) .

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