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Word: targa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, 29: the 447-mile Targa Florio, world's oldest and slowest major road race; in Sicily. With Co-Driver Nino Vaccarella Bandini piloted his prototype Ferrari around the twisting, hilly course at an average speed of 63.7 m.p.h., finished a full 5 min. ahead of his closest pursuer: a Porsche driven by Britain's Colin Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scoreboard: Who Won may 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...marvelously hand-crafted sports cars each year, the cheapest of which sells for $8,800. And when he puts them on the track, the customers are properly impressed. Last year, a Ferrari won the twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring, Fla. A Ferrari won Sicily's Targa Florio. A Ferrari won Germany's 1,000 Kilometers of Nurburgring, and a Ferrari won France's Twenty-four Hours of Le Mans. It was a clean sweep of the world's four top sports-car races,* and, for Enzo Ferrari, his eighth manufacturer's world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Another for the Monster | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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