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The Targa Florio was an open road endurance automobile race held in the mountains of Sicily near Palermo. Founded in 1906, it was the oldest sports car racing event, part of the World Sportscar Championship between 1955 and 1973. While the first races consisted of a whole tour of the island, the track length in the race's last decades was limited to the 72 kilometres (45 mi) of the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie, which was lapped 11 times.

After 1973, it was a national sports car event until it was discontinued in 1977 due to safety concerns. It has since been run as a rallying event, and is part of the Italian Rally Championship.

Targa Florio pit complex as seen from spectators balcony, 2010

1 History
2 Legacy
3 Winners
4 See also
5 Further reading
6 References
7 External links

History [link]

Alessandro Cagno (1883-1971), Targa Florio, 1907

Vincenzo Lancia driving a Fiat 50 hp in 1908 Targa Florio, finished 2nd.

Jean Porporato finishing fourth at the 1908 race with Berliet.

The race was created in 1906 by the wealthy pioneer race driver and automobile enthusiast, Vincenzo Florio, who had started the Coppa Florio race in Brescia, Lombardy in 1900.

One of the toughest competitions in Europe, the first Targa Florio covered 3 laps equalling 277 miles (446 km) through multiple hairpin curves on treacherous mountain roads, at heights where severe changes in climate frequently occurred. Alessandro Cagno won the inaugural 1906 race in nine hours, averaging 30 miles per hour (50 km/h).

By the mid-1920s, the Targa Florio had become one of Europe's most important races, as neither the 24 Hours of Le Mans nor the Mille Miglia had been established yet. Grand Prix races were still isolated events, not a series like today's F1.

The wins of Mercedes (not yet merged with Benz) in the 1920s made a big impression in Germany, especially that of German Christian Werner in 1924, as he was the first non-Italian winner since 1920. Rudolf Caracciola repeated a similar upset win at the Mille Miglia a couple of years later. In 1926, Eliska Junkova, one of the great female drivers in Grand Prix motor racing history, became the first woman to ever compete in the race.

In 1953, the FIA World Sportscar Championship was introduced. The Targa became part of it in 1955, when Mercedes had to win 1-2 with the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR in order to beat Ferrari for the title. They had missed the first two of the 6 events, Buenos Aires and the 12 Hours of Sebring, where Ferrari, Jaguar, Maserati and Porsche scored. Mercedes appeared at and won in the Mille Miglia, then pulled out of Le Mans as a sign of respect for the victims of the 1955 Le Mans disaster, but won the Tourist Trophy at Dundrod. Stirling Moss/Peter Collins and Juan Manuel Fangio/Karl Kling finished minutes ahead of the best Ferrari and secured the title.

Over the years, the greats of Grand Prix racing and Formula One such as Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio, Belgium's Olivier Gendebien and Britain's Stirling Moss came to challenge Italian champions Tazio Nuvolari, Alfieri Maserati, Achille Varzi and others, like local hero Nino Vaccarella.

Several versions of the track were used. It started with a single lap of a 148 km (92 mi) circuit from 1906-1911 and 1931. From 1912 to 1914 an entire tour along the perimeter of Sicily was done, with a single lap of 606 miles (975 km), lengthened to 671 miles (1,080 km) from 1948 to 1950. The 148 km "Grande" circuit was then shortened twice, the first time to 67 mi (108 km), the version used from 1919-1930, and then to the 72 km (45 mi) circuit used from 1932 to 1977.

The start and finish took place at Cerda. The counterclockwise lap lead from Caltavuturo and Collesano from an altitude over 600 metres (1,970 ft) down to sea level, where the cars raced from Campofelice di Roccella on the Buonfornello straight along the coast, a straight over 6 km (3.7 mi) longer than the Mulsanne straight at the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans. The longest version of the circuit went south through Caltavuturo (whereas the shortest version of the open-road circuit went east just before entry into Caltavuturo, through a mountainous section directly to Collesano) through an extended route through elevation changes, and swept through the nearby towns of Castellana and Sottana, twisting around mountains up to the town of Castelbuono and rejoined the most recent version of the track at Collesano. The second version of the track also went south through Caltavuturo and took a shortcut starting right before Castellana to Collesano via the town of Polizzi Generosa. There was a closed circuit called Favorita Park used from 1937-1940.

Like a rally event, the race cars were started one by one every two minutes for a time trial, as a start from a full grid was not possible on the tight and twisty roads. Helmut Marko set the lap record in 1972 in an Alfa Romeo 33TT3 at 33 min 41 s at an average of 128.253 km/h (79.693 mph) during an epic charge where he made up 2 minutes on Arturo Merzario and his Ferrari 312PB.^[1] The fastest ever was Leo Kinnunen in 1970, qualifying the Porsche 908/3 at 128.571 km/h (79.890 mph) or 33 min 36 s.^[2]

Due to the track's length, drivers practised in the week before the race in public traffic, often with their race cars fitted with license plates. Porsche factory drivers even had to watch onboard videos, a sickening experience for some. The lap record for the 146km "Grande" circuit was 2 hours 3 min 54.8 seconds set by Achille Varzi in a Bugatti Type 51 at the 1931 race at an average speed of 70.7 km/h (43.931 mph).^[3] The lap record for the 108 km "Medio" circuit was 1 hour 21 min 21.6 seconds set by Varzi in an Alfa Romeo P2 at an average speed of 79.642 km/h (49.487 mph) at the 1930 race. ^[4] The fastest completion around the short version of the island tour was done by Ernesto Ceirano in a SCAT at the 1914 race, completed in 16 hours, 51 minutes and 31.6 seconds from May 24-25, 1914.^[5]. The fastest completion of the long version of the island tour was by Mario and Franco Bornigia in an Alfa Romeo 8C 2500, completed in 12 hours, 26 minutes and 33 seconds flat at the 1950 race at an average speed of 86.794 km/h (53.931 mph). ^[6]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, race cars with up to 600 hp (450 kW) such as Nino Vaccarella's Ferrari 512S raced through small mountain villages while spectators sat or stood right next to, or even on, the road. Porsche, on the other hand, did not race its big Porsche 917, but rather the nimble Porsche 908/03 Spyders.

Due to safety concerns, especially by Helmut Marko, who called the race "totally insane", the last Targa Florio as a World Sportscar Championship race was run in 1973; where during this event it became impossible to retain its international status after a number of horrendous and 2 fatal accidents at the event; one which privateer Charles Blyth crashed his Lancia Fulvia HF into a trailer at the end of the Buonfornello straight and was killed; and another where an Italian driver crashed his Alpine-Renault into a group of spectators, killing one. There were several other accidents during practice for the 1973 event in which a total of seven spectators sustained injuries. In that year, even a Porsche 911 won as the prototypes such as Jacky Ickx's Ferrari suffered crashes or other troubles. The Targa was continued as a national event for some years, before a crash in 1977 which killed 2 spectators and seriously injured 5 others (including the driver) sealed its fate. The 1977 race was forcibly taken over by local police and was stopped on the 4th lap, and it also saw 2 other drivers having serious accidents; one of them was critically injured, but survived. Since 1978, it has run as a rallying event.

Although the Targa Florio was an open road rally-type race that took place on Sicilian mountain roads with (aside from straw bales and weak guardrails at some of the turns, the latter were installed by the island's government) practically no safety features, only 9 people- including spectators- died at the event over the 71 year and 61 race history using a total of 6 circuit configurations. This amount is relatively small compared to other open road races, like the Mille Miglia, where over a period of 30 years and 24 races, 56 people lost their lives and the Carrera Panamericana, where over a period of 5 years and 5 races, 25 people lost their lives. This is probably due to the fact that the mountain roads were extremely twisty and average speeds never reached even 80 mph even up to the final years of the race's history, even with the very long straight at the northernmost of the track.

Legacy [link]

After winning the race several times, Porsche named the convertible version of the 911 after the Targa. The name targa means plaque, see targa top.

The Australian-made Leyland P76 had a special version named Targa Florio named to commemorate victory by journalist-rallyist Evan Green on a Special Stage of the 1974 London-Sahara-Munich World Cup Rally which was held on the Targa Florio course.^[7]

Since 1992 the event has lent its name to a modern recreation, staged half-a-world away in the form of the famous road rally Targa Tasmania held on the island state of Tasmania, found off the Southern coast of Australia.

Winners [link]

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Pre-WWI races [link]

Year	Winner	Car	Time	Distance (km)	Speed (km/h)	Laps	Course Variant
1906	Alessandro Cagno	Itala 35/40 HP	9:32:22	446.469	46.80	3	Grande Circuit (146 km)
1907	Felice Nazzaro	Fiat 28/40 HP	8:17:36	446.469	53.83	3	Grande Circuit (146 km)
1908	Vincenzo Trucco	Isotta Fraschini	7:49:26	446.469	57.06	3	Grande Circuit (146 km)
1909	Francesco Ciuppa	SPA	2:43:19	148.823	54.67	1	Grande Circuit (146 km)
1910	Tullio Cariolato	Franco Automobili	6:20:47	297.646	46.90	2	Grande Circuit (146 km)
1911	Ernesto Ceirano	SCAT	9:32:22	446.469	46.80	2	Grande Circuit (146 km)
1912	Cyril Snipe	SCAT 25/35	24:37:19	979.000	41.44	1	Island Tour (short) (979 km)
1913	Felice Nazzaro	Nazzaro Tipo 2	19:18:40	979.000	50.70	1	Island Tour (short) (979 km)
1914	Ernesto Ceirano	SCAT 22/32	16:51:31	979.000	58.07	1	Island Tour (short) (979 km)

Between the Wars [link]

Albert Divo at the 1929 Targa Florio with Bugatti Type 35C.

Year	Winner	Car	Time	Distance (km)	Speed (km/h)	Laps	Course Variant
1919	André Boillot	Peugeot EXS	7:51.01.8	432	-	4	Media Circuit (108 km)
1920	Guido Meregalli	Nazzaro GP	8:27.23.8	432	50.924	4	Media Circuit (108 km)
1921	Giulio Masetti	Fiat 451	7:25'05.2	432	58.236	4	Media Circuit (108 km)
1922	Giulio Masetti	Mercedes GP/14	6:50.50.2	432	63.091	4	Media Circuit (108 km)
1923	Ugo Sivocci	Alfa Romeo RL Targa Florio	7:18.00.2	432	59.177	4	Media Circuit (108 km)
1924	Christian Werner	Mercedes PP	6:32.37.2/5	432	66.010	4	Media Circuit (108 km)
1925	Bartolomeo Costantini	Bugatti T35	7:32.27.2	540	71.609	5	Media Circuit (108 km)
1926	Bartolomeo Costantini	Bugatti T35T	7:20.45.0	540	73.507	5	Media Circuit (108 km)
1927	Emilio Materassi	Bugatti T35C	7:35.55.4	540	71.065	5	Media Circuit (108 km)
1928	Albert Divo	Bugatti T35B	7:20.56.6	540	73.478	5	Media Circuit (108 km)
1929	Albert Divo	Bugatti T35C	7:15'41.7	540	74.366	5	Media Circuit (108 km)
1930	Achille Varzi	Alfa Romeo P2	6:55.16.6	540	78.010	5	Media Circuit (108 km)
1931	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Monza	9:00'27.0	584	64.834	4	Grande Circuit (146 km)
1932	Tazio Nuvolari	Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Monza	7:15.50.6	574	79.296	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1933	Antonio Brivio	Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Monza	7:15.50.6	504	76.729	7	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1934	Achille Varzi	Alfa Romeo Tipo-B P3	6:14'26.8	432	69.222	6	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1935	Antonio Brivio	Alfa Romeo Tipo-B P3	2:08.47.2	432	80.010	6	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1936	Constantino Magistri	Lancia Augusta	6:14'26.8	144	67.088	2	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1937	Giulio Severi	Maserati 6CM	2:55'49.0	315.6	107.704	60	Favorita Park (5.26 km)
1938	Giovanni Rocco	Maserati 6CM	1:30'04.6	171.6	114.303	30	Favorita Park (5.72 km)
1939	Luigi Villoresi	Maserati 6CM	1:40.15.4	228	136.445	40	Favorita Park (5.72 km)
1940	Luigi Villoresi	Maserati 4CL	1:36.08.6	228	142.288	40	Favorita Park (5.72 km)

Post-WW II races [link]

Year	Winner	Car	Time	Distance (km)	Speed (km/h)	Laps	Course Variant
1948	Clemente Biondetti Igor Troubetzkoy	Ferrari 166	12:12'00.0	1080	88.866	1	Island Tour (long) (1080 km)
1949	Clemente Biondetti Aldo Benedetti	Ferrari 166 SC	13:15.09.4	1080	81.494	1	Island Tour (long) (1080 km)
1950	Mario Bornigia Giancarlo Bornigia	Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione	12:26.33.0	1080	86.794	1	Island Tour (long) (1080 km)
1951	Franco Cortese	Frazer Nash	7:31.04.8	576	76.631	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1952	Felice Bonetto	Lancia Aurelia B20	7:11.58.0	576	76.631	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1953	Umberto Maglioli	Lancia D20 3000	7:08.35.8	576	80.635	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1954	Piero Taruffi	Lancia D 24	6:24.18.0	576	89.930	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)

World Championship races [link]

Year	Winner	Car	Time	Distance (km)	Speed (km/h)	Laps	Course Variant
1955	Stirling Moss Peter Collins	Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR	9:43.14.0	936	96.290	13	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1956	Umberto Maglioli Huschke von Hanstein	Porsche 550	7:54.52.6	720	90.770	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1957	Fabio Colona	Fiat 600	-	359	-	5	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1958	Luigi Musso Olivier Gendebien	Ferrari 250 TR	10:37.58.1	1008	94.801	14	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1959	Edgar Barth Wolfgang Seidel	Porsche RSK	11:02.21.8	1008	91.309	14	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1960	Jo Bonnier Hans Herrmann Graham Hill	Porsche RS60	7:33.08.2	720	95.320	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1961	Wolfgang von Trips Olivier Gendebien	Ferrari Dino 246 SP	6:57.39.4	720	103.433	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1962	Willy Mairesse Ricardo Rodriguez Olivier Gendebien	Ferrari Dino 246 SP	7:02'56.3	720	102.143	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1963	Jo Bonnier Carlo Maria Abate	Porsche 718 GTR	6:55.45.1	720	109.908	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1964	Colin Davis Antonio Pucci	Porsche 904 GTS	7:10.53.3	720	100.258	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1965	Nino Vaccarella Lorenzo Bandini	Ferrari 275 P2	7:01:12.4	720	102.563	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1966	Willy Mairesse Herbert Müller	Porsche Carrera 6^[9]	7:16:32.6	720	98.910	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1967	Paul Hawkins Rolf Stommelen	Porsche 910 ^[10]	6:37.01.0	720	108.812	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1968	Vic Elford Umberto Maglioli	Porsche 907	6:28:47.9	720	111.112	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1969	Gerhard Mitter Udo Schütz	Porsche 908/2	6:07:45.3	720	117.469	10	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1970	Jo Siffert Brian Redman	Porsche 908/3^[11]	6:35.30.0	792	120.152	11	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1971	Nino Vaccarella Toine Hezemans	Alfa Romeo 33/3	6:35:46.2	792	120.070	11	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1972	Arturo Merzario Sandro Munari	Ferrari 312PB	6:27:48.0	792	122.537	11	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1973	Herbert Müller Gijs van Lennep	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR ^[12]	6:54:20.1	792	114.691	11	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)

The 1957 race was not a race but a regularity test, following the Mille Miglia accident.

Non-WC races [link]

Year	Winner	Car	Time	Distance (km)	Speed (km/h)	Laps	Course Variant
1974	Gérard Larrousse Amilcare Ballestrieri	Lancia Stratos ^[13]	4:35:02.6	576	114.883	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1975	Nino Vaccarella Arturo Merzario	Alfa Romeo 33TT12 ^[14]	4:59:16.7	576	120.895	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1976	"Amphicar"* Armando Floridia	Osella PA4-BMW ^[15]	5:43:46.0	576	99.090	8	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)
1977	Raffaele Restivo Alfonso Merendino	Chevron B36-BMW ^[16]	2:41:17.0	288	107.140	4	Piccolo Circuit (72 km)

"Amphicar"'s actual name was Eugenio Renna.

Porsche 910 2.0 coupé inside the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen. #184 and Stuttgart license plate "S-ZL 124" indicate the car was chassis 910-006 driven at the 1967 Targa Florio by Umberto Maglioli and Udo Schütz

Porsche 911 Carrera RSR, winner 1973

Wins by make [link]

The list below includes all car manufacturers who have attained a podium. The table does not include the results of the 1957 edition, which was held as a regularity race.

Pos.	Brand	1st place	2nd place	3rd place	Fastest laps
1	Porsche	11	9	12	8
2	Alfa Romeo	10	13	7	10
3	Ferrari	7	6	4	7
4	Lancia	5	7	5	4
5	Bugatti	5	4	5	6
6	Maserati	4	6	9	4
7	Mercedes-Benz	3	2	1	4
8	SCAT	3	0	0	0
9	Fiat	2	3	3	2
10	Nazzaro	2	0	0	0
11	Itala	1	2	1	1
12	Osella	1	1	1	2
13	Peugeot	1	1	1	1
14	Chevron	1	1	0	0
15	SPA	1	0	1	1
16	Franco	1	0	0	1
17	Isotta Fraschini	1	0	0	0
17	Frazer-Nash	1	0	0	0
19	Ballot	0	1	1	0
19	Cisitalia	0	1	1	0
19	De Vecchi	0	1	1	0
22	Osca	0	1	0	1
23	Aquila Italiana	0	1	0	0
23	Sigma	0	1	0	0
25	Lola	0	0	1	1
26	Abarth	0	0	1	0
26	Alfa-Maserati-Prete	0	0	1	0
26	Berliet	0	0	1	0
26	Darracq	0	0	1	0
26	Diatto	0	0	1	0
26	Steyr	0	0	1	0
32	Aston Martin	0	0	0	1

References [link]

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External links [link]

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Vic Elford
Formula One World Championship career
Elford in 2010
Born	(1935-06-10) 10 June 1935 (age 77)
Nationality	British
Active years	1968 - 1969, 1971
Teams	Cooper, McLaren, BRM
Races	13
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	8
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1968 French Grand Prix
Last race	1971 German Grand Prix

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1967 – 1974, 1983
Teams	Porsche System Porsche Salzburg Martini Racing Autodelta SpA Automobiles Charles Pozzi Robert Buchet Rondeau
Best finish	6th (1973)
Class wins	2 (1967, 1973)

Victor Henry Elford (born in London, 10 June 1935) is a former sportscar racing, rallying and Formula One driver from England. He participated in 13 World Championship F1 Grands Prix, debuting on 7 July 1968. He scored a total of 8 championship points.

Nicknamed "Quick Vic" by his peers Elford was mainly a famous sports car competitor as well as a successful rally driver, associated often with Porsche.

Elford started as a co-driver, partnering David Seigle-Morris in a Triumph TR3A.^[1] By 1961 he had acquired the confidence to see himself as a potential driver in his own right: the confidence was not shared by team manager Marcus Chambers, and Elford purchased a race-tuned Mini which he rallied as a privateer with limited success before selling it at the end of the season.^[1] 1962 found him achieving success in several UK rallies driving a factory sponsored DKW Junior.^[1] The next year saw a return to Triumph and Elford achieved impressively fast times with the Triumph TR4s, although reliability of the cars in Elford's hands was disappointing, and the following year Elford switched to Ford: this was the beginning of a successful three year rallying stint with the Ford Cortinas.^[1]

In 1967 Elford was European rally champion in a works Porsche 911. Among other victories he won the 1968 Rally Monte Carlo in a Porsche 911 and only a week later the 24 Hours of Daytona in a Porsche 907, Porsche's first ever overall win in a 24 hour race.

Later that year, he also won the Targa Florio teamed with veteran Umberto Maglioli in a famous come-from-behind race after he lost 18 minutes in the first lap due to a tyre failure. Elford established several lap record. Elford then entered the French Grand Prix and finished fourth in his first F1 race – a wet one, too.

By finishing the 1969 Monaco Grand Prix despite troubles, he became the only pilot to do well in both famous events in Monte Carlo.

Racing in the World Sportscar Championship for Martini Racing against the mighty JWA Gulf team, he was clocked at over 380 km/h in the Porsche 917LH in practise for the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans. He went on to win the 1971 12 Hours of Sebring in a Porsche 917K, as well as several 1000km Nürburgring races.

During the 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, when he saw a burning Ferrari Daytona in front of him, Elford stopped^[2] in mid-race to save the driver. When opening the door, Elford found an empty cockpit, as the driver already had escaped. Elford then noticed the wreck of a Lola among the trees, with Jo Bonnier having been killed. Cameras caught the act and Elford was named Chevalier of the National Order of Merit by French President Georges Pompidou.

A Targa Florio, Sebring & Daytona winner, his favorite track was nonetheless the Nürburgring despite the disappointing results in his three F1 attempts there, of which the first two ended in lap 1 accidents. His two last GPs were at the Ring, too. In addition to the 1000 km, Elford won some 500 km races there, winning a total of 6 major races. Only Rudolf Caracciola and Stirling Moss beat that record.

Elford lap records included: Targa Florio, Nurburgring, Daytona, Sebring, Norisring, Monza, Buenos Aires, Road Atlanta, Laguna Seca, Riverside and Le Mans.

On February 4, 1967 at Lydden Circuit, he won the first ever Rallycross event. Later that year he won the 84 Hour "Marathon de la Route" event at the Nürburgring, on the full 28 km long combined versions that was rarely used since the 1930s. Fellow pilots Hans Herrmann and Jochen Neerpasch preferred "the rally driver" to steer the Porsche 911 through the 7 hours long, four consecutive night turns in rainy and foggy conditions. The winning car was fitted with a semi-automatic Sportomatic transmission, as was another Porsche 911S entered by the factory team.

Elford in a 1971 Porsche 908/3, in practice for the 1000km Nürburgring

Although he raced 5 years for Porsche, Elford also raced for Ford, Triumph, Lancia, Alfa-Romeo, Ferrari, Chaparral, Shadow, Cooper, Lola, Chevron, Subaru. He also drove McLaren in F1 & CanAm, Chevrolet in TransAm.

Overseas, Elford was also racing in CanAm and the Daytona 500 of NASCAR.

"Quick Vic" nowadays lives in South Florida, United States.

1 Bibliography
2 Complete World Championship Formula One results
3 References
4 External links

Bibliography [link]

Elford has authored a number of books on the subject of motorsport:

Porsche High Performance Driving Handbook ISBN 0-87938-849-8 (1994)
Vic Elford: Reflections on a Golden Era in Motorsports ISBN 1-893618-52-8 (2005)

Complete World Championship Formula One results [link]

Vic Elford in the cockpit of an incomplete McLaren M7B, prior to the 1969 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	WDC	Pts.
1968	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T86B	BRM	RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA 4	GBR Ret	GER Ret	ITA Ret	CAN 5	USA Ret	MEX 8	18th	5
1969	Antique Automobiles Racing Team	Cooper T86B	Maserati	RSA	ESP	MON 7										14th	3
1969	Antique Automobiles Racing Team	McLaren M7B	Ford				NED 10	FRA 5	GBR 6	GER Ret	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX		14th	3
1971	Yardley Team BRM	BRM P160	BRM	RSA	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER 11	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA		NC	0

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Vic Elford profile". Autocar 127 (nbr 3731): pages 12–13. 17 August 1967.
^ http://www.classicrallies.com/view_experience/1

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v t e 3/6/24 hrs + 2000km winners at Daytona

Five-time	Hurley Haywood

Four-time	Peter Gregg Scott Pruett Pedro Rodríguez Rolf Stommelen Bob Wollek

Three-time	Derek Bell Butch Leitzinger Brian Redman Andy Wallace

Two-time	Mauro Baldi Terry Borcheller Elliott Forbes-Robinson A. J. Foyt Al Holbert Jan Lammers Ken Miles Juan Pablo Montoya John Paul, Jr. Memo Rojas Lloyd Ruby Wayne Taylor Didier Theys Al Unser, Jr.

One-time	Allmendinger Amon J. Andretti Ma. Andretti Angelelli Ballot-Léna Bandini Barber Barbosa Beretta Bergmeister Bernhard Boesel Bouchut Boutsen Brundle Buckler Collard Dalziel Dismore Dixon D. Donohue M. Donohue Dupuy Durán Duxbury Dyson Elford Fellows Field Fittipaldi Fitzpatrick Franchitti Fréon García Garretson Gentilozzi Graves Gurney Hand Hasemi Helmick Henn Herrmann Hezemans Hill Hoshino Ickx Jelinski Joest D. Jones P. J. Jones Kinnunen Kneifel Krages Lässig Lavaggi Law Lienhard Luyendyk Martin Mears Merl Millen Moran Moretti Neerpasch Negri Nielsen O'Connell Oliver Ongais Pace Papis C. Parsons Paul, Sr. Pescarolo Pew Pilgrim B. Rahal G. Rahal Rice Robinson Rockenfeller Schneider Schrom Sharp Siffert Suzuki Unser, Sr. van der Merwe Weaver Wendlinger Werner Wheldon Wilson

v t e 12 Hours of Sebring winners

Six-time	Tom Kristensen

Five-time	Rinaldo Capello

Four-time	Frank Biela Allan McNish

Three-time	Mario Andretti Marco Werner

Two-time	Bob Akin Geoff Brabham Derek Daly Andy Evans Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio II Olivier Gendebien Hurley Haywood Hans Herrmann Phil Hill Al Holbert Jacky Ickx Stefan Johansson JJ Lehto Emanuele Pirro Brian Redman Hans-Joachim Stuck Eric van de Poele Fermín Vélez Andy Wallace Phil Walters

One-time	Aïello Alboreto Baker Baldi Barbour Behra Bernhard Bianchi Bonnier Gary Brabham Castellotti Collard Collins Daigh Dalmas Davidson de Narvaez Dumas Duval Dyer Earl Elford Fitch Fitzpatrick Foyt Frisselle Garretson Gartner Gené Giunti Gray Gregg Gurney Hall Hawthorn Helmick Herbert Heyer Kaffer Keyser Kulok Lapierre Larrousse Leven Lloyd Ludwig Luyendyk Maglioli Mass McFarlin McLaren Mendez Miles Millen Moffat Moretti Morton Moss Mullen Müller Nierop O'Connell Oliver Pace Panis Parkes Paul, Jr. Paul, Sr. Pescatori Peter Rahal Robinson Ruby Scarfiotti Sharp Siffert Surtees Taylor Theys Vaccarella Wollek Woods Wurz

Persondata
Name	Elford, Vic
Alternative names
Short description	British racing driver
Date of birth	10 June 1935
Place of birth
Date of death
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