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1907 Fiat F-2 Grand Prix (130 Horsepower)

Fabrica Italiana Automobili Torino, subsequently shortened to Fiat, was founded in 1899 near Turin, Italy. Two years later the firm's founder Giovanni Agnelli hired Giovanni Enrico, an engineer whose assignment was to build racing cars. He developed fiat's first four-cylinder engine and by 1902 fiats were so reliable that a 12-horsepower model was able to travel 1,331 miles in 57 hours without stopping. That same year Enrico made fiat a name to be reckoned with in international racing with his 24-horsepower  competition model. This car, actually a test bed for new engineering developments, became the first Italian car to participate in a major international automobile race.

In the years that followed, fiats competed regularly in Gordon Bennett Trophy races, taking second and third place in 1905. Then a fiat with the great racing driver Felice Nazzaro behind the wheel finished second in the 1906 Grand prix.

The stage was set for 1907, which turned out to be a year of triumph for both Fiat and Nazarro. The firm's racing cars had become increasingly powerful with each passing year. By 1907 fiat's four cylinder, overhead-valve engine had a capacity of 15,268 cubic centimeters and a slightly shorter stroke than the engine used in 1906.

Three fiats were entered in the 1907 Grand prix held in Dieppe, France. Although the weather had been bad July 2, the day of the race, dawned clear, and the first car; a fiat driven by Vincenzo Lancia, left the starting line shortly after six a.m. He wasn't in the lead for long, however, for one of the other fiats spend to the front where it remained for three laps, when mechanically difficulty forced it out of the race. But the plucky fiat drivers were not men to give up easily.

With the third fiat, driven by Nazzaro back in the field, Lancia found himself battling with a Lorraine-Dietrich for first place. After the fifth lap both cars stopped to refuel, and Lancia was the first to get back on the track. For 200 miles the two cars, driven with a skill and daring that bordered on abandon, dueled for the lead. Then on the eighth lap the fiat gradually lost ground as its engine began to misfire. The Lorraine-Dietrich was steadily pulling away when suddenly it also broke down.

Now Nazzaro, who had been driving more conservatively, took the lead and held it to the end. Fiat had won its first Grand prix, and Nazzaro began building a reputation that would eventually earn him a place among the greatest racing drivers in history.

By the end of the year Nazzaro had won not only the Grand prix but also went on to win the kaiser pries and the Targa Floria. And he won each of these races behind the wheel of a fiat, which was well on its way to becoming one of the great marques in auto racing.
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