The Targa Florio has been
a special run, single, human, wanted by an extraordinary
man, Vincenzo Florio.
It goes up again to 1906 the first edition of the Targa Florio, a run wich arose
undergon big immediately was born great,a an international
event, conceived at the highest organizational levels,
in an epoch in which the runs of automobiles were pioneer
enterprises.
The rider Vincenzo Florio had prepared a way in the heart of Madonie which from
the mountain was getting down as far as the sea through enchanting landscapes,
then dizzily to go up again and considerables difficulty wrapped in striking
scanarios.
The glamour of the road layout, the vegetation give wild and impenetrable tones,
were taking away the pilots'breath and to the mechanics, I ran from every continent
corner.
The Targa Florio has had, a plebiscitary assent in the Sicilian, and not only
people: in the preceding immediately days, and subsequent days the demonstration,
sicilians of every quarter were becoming expert mechanical engineers, competent
testers and risky pilots.
To follow their beniaminis, the impassioned ones of every age, also advance,
long trips were submitted to, often nighttime and they camped then him under
the stars, the scorching sun or the rain.
Without shade of doubt, surely without this consent and this warm embrace of
the public, the run "madonita" what would not have become it is: a monument to the mean mechanic that has revolutionized
the world, to his/her builders and the pilots that have dared drive automobiles
more and more improved and powerful on an incomparable run for difficulty and
dizzy beauty of the crossed territories.
Auto houses as the Darracq, the Fiat, the Peugeot, the Mercedes, the Bugatti,
the Alfa Romeo, the Ferrari, the Porsche they submitted year after year, decade
after decade their fame or their end to the success in the run of Florio.
On a circuit along 72 Km and more than thousand curves, pilots of international
fame what, to quote some of it, Nazzaro, Masetti, Maglioli, Castellotti, Collins,
Bonnier, Varzi, Nuvolari, Moss, Elford, Vaccarellas, they have written unforgettable
pages of sporting history.
Yes, Nino Vaccarella, a champion palermitano passed in the legend, a myth which
realized three victories to the Targa Florio (1965, 1971 and 1975)well, a natural
talent which was alternating the Headmaster's work to that of pilot.
In the edition of the 1965 the "flying Headmaster" in couple with Bandini won hands down the Targa, in a competition without history:
faster turn on a trial basis, in head from the beginning at the end, record
of the competition: from that day Collesano becomes Fortress of Vaccarella
and the Ferrari.
Between the countries crossed by the mythical Targa Florio, Collesano it represents
the symbol of the passion for the run, in fact, her Targa history watering is
and has tasted the emotions, give her terrible joys up to the discouragement
of his suppression.
Today with the Museum "Targa Florio" Collesano does his the honor to hand down the vivid memory of That That beet
and will be never forgotten.
