Coppa Florio
The Coppa Florio was a motorsport race for automobiles first held in Italy in 1900. It was renamed in 1905 when Vincenzo Florio offered the initial 50,000 Lira prize money and a cup designed by Polak of Paris. The cup was to be awarded to the car maker who gained the most wins in the first seven races, beginning with the race held in 1905.
In the event, the first seven races were all won by different manufacturers, but Peugeot won the eighth race in 1925 and thus secured the cup with its second win. However, the competition for the cup continued after Lucien Rosengart, then a director of Peugeot, offered to make it available again.
The Brescia race ran along the route Brescia-Cremona-Mantua-Brescia.
In 1908, the race used the Circuito di Bologna: Bologna-Castelfranco Emilia-Sant'Agata Bolognese-San Giovanni in Persiceto-Bologna.
After 1914, most of the Coppa Florio races were co-organized with the Targa Florio at the Circuito delle Madonie circuit outside Palermo, Sicily, running four or five laps, 108 km each.
Only in 1927 did the race move to Saint-Brieuc, in honour of Peugeot's second win in 1925. The race attracted teams from around Europe as well as the 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeams from England and saw such luminaries as Sir Henry Segrave and Jean Chassagne competing. The winners were:
| Edition | Date | Circuit | Winner | Vehicle | Time |
| -- | 10 September 1900 | Brescia |  Alberto Franchetti | Panhard & Levassor 12 HP | n/a |
| -- | 5 September 1904 | Brescia | Vincenzo Lancia | Fiat 75 HP | 2*167 km=372.2 km in 3h12m |
| I | 4 September 1905 | Brescia | Giovanni Battista Raggio | Itala 112 HP | 3*167 km=500.7 km in 4h46m |
| II | 1 September 1907 | Brescia | Ferdinando Minoia | Isotta Fraschini | 8*60 km=485.7 km in 4h39m |
| III | 6 September 1908 | Bologna | Felice Nazzaro | Fiat | 10*52 km=528.1 km in 4h25m |
| IV | 31 May 1914 | Madonie | Felice Nazzaro | Nazzaro | 3*148 km=446.5 km in 8h11m |
| V | 4 September 1921 | Brescia |  Jules Goux | Ballot 3L | 519 km in 3h35m |
| VI | 19 November 1922 | Madonie | André Boillot | Peugeot | 432 km in 7h09m |
| VII | 27 April 1924 | Madonie |  Christian Werner | Mercedes-Benz TF | 432 km in 6h32m |
| VIII | 3 May 1925 | Madonie | André Boillot | Peugeot | 540 km in 7h32m |
| IX | 25 April 1926 | Madonie | Bartolomeo Costantini | Bugatti Type 35 T | 540 km in 7h20m |
| X | 17 July 1927 | Saint-Brieuc | Robert Laly | Ariès | n/a |
| XI | 6 May 1928 | Madonie | Albert Divo | Bugatti Type 35 B | n/a |
| XII | 5 May 1929 | Madonie | Albert Divo | Bugatti Type 35 C | n/a |