1st Targa Florio 1906
Grande Circuito delle Madonie
Touring Cars, 1300 kgs minimum weight

 

Date: May 6 Fastest Practice Lap:  
Track Length: 148.823 km Fastest Lap: Alessandro Cagno, 2:50'10.0" = 52.474 km/h
Attendance:   Distance: 3 laps = 446.469 km
Entries: 22* Average Speed: 46.80 km/h
Practiced:      
Starters: 10    
Classified:      

 

Sources:
(1) Targa Florio, page 157 - W. F. Bradley, 1955
(2) Settant'anni di gare automobilistiche in Italia, page 108 - Emanuele Alberto Carli
(3) A Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing, Volume 2, page 218-219 - Paul Sheldon 1990
(4) Data collected by Alessandro Silva
(5) Data collected by Hans Etzrodt
(6) La Targa Florio - http://www.targaflorio.it/index1.htm
(7) La Targa Florio - http://aldolg.freeweb.supereva.it/index.htm?
(8) Automobile Quarterly Volume II No. 4 - Cullen Thomas / David Owen 1973

 

Pos Clas-
sific.		 # Driver, Nationality Entrant Car Engine
Type - Volume		 Time
Laps
Km		 Reason Out
1 1 3 Alessandro Cagno, I Fab Auto Itala SA Itala   9:32'22.0"  
2 2 10 Ettore Graziani, I Fab Auto Itala SA Itala   10:05'32.1"  
3 3 5 Louis Bablot (2)
Paul Bablot (3)		 Automobiles M Berliet Berliet   10:20'05.1"  
4 4 9 Victor Rigal, F Fab Auto Itala SA Itala   10:25'08.4"  
5 5 8 Pierre De Caters Fab Auto Itala SA Itala   10:38'26.1"  
6 6 2 Hubert Le Blon, F Ets Hotchkiss Hotchkiss   12:09'23.6"(2)
11:09'23.3"(4)		  
                 
7 NC 7 Maurice Fournier, F A Clément Bayard Clément   2 Out of time limit
                 
8 DNF 1 Vincenzo Lancia, I Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino Fiat   2 Fuel pipe
9 DNF 6 George Pope, GB Fab Auto Itala SA Itala   0 Fuel pipe
10 DNF 4 Achille Fournier, F (3)
Henri Fournier, F (4,8)		 A Clément Bayard Clément   0 Accident, front axle (4), rear axle (8)
                 
11 DNA              
12 DNA              
13 DNA              
14 DNA              
15 DNA              
16 DNA              
17 DNA              
18 DNA              
19 DNA              
20 DNA              
21 DNA              
22 DNA              

 

*12 cars was stranded in Genoa by a dock strike

 

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