Targa Florio: The Greatest Race Of Them All - XCAR

Love this vid

Good to see you expanding from out of car reviews and into some of the greatest history of motoring!

Need more races like this. Hopefully if the MSA's closed road thing works we should see races like this in the north west

great video

Love playing this track on GTL always a great challenge !

If you can Mille Miglia next please.

Amazing video!

They boil bring back Targa Florio just add more safety features so it could be he race track
it once was

Quality content.

Amazing race,

Loved this, you guys should do more historical, documentary style videos. But along with the other videos as well. 

Very good yet again
You too chaps are great Narraters. Thanks for posting

Amazing pice of journalism.

Great video guys thank you!!!

Very nice video...but what is this music? Anyone knows? : )

Great piece of racing history! Thank you very much for sharing...

Just one thing: Mulsanne straight no! Les Hunaudières yes! Please respect original names

Excellent video guys. Those were the days !

any idea what the song at the beginning of the video is called? i like it. 

Amazing Video

Thanks for a great racing history. I had heard the race name but did not know all the info and history about it. Great video. More of this please.

What was your lap time

Good work chaps. For those who wish to learn more, look up a film called Mountain Legend which features the 1965 race. 

Cool video but you completely left out the Ferrari/Shelby wars!

Bravo!

honestly this wasn't very in-depth..... they mentioned only one Ferrari win and discussed german and british(through driver) dominance. They came into Italy and insulted us 

Fantastic video - really enjoyed it. 

Great video, good work

Please tell us the theme soundtrack for this great documentary

targa actually means license plate

A bit of misinformation in here- Vaccarella/Giunti finished 3rd in 1970, not 4th and the fastest lap of the circuit was set by Leo Kinnunen in 1970, around 5-10 seconds faster than Marko.

What a beautiful made film!! superb! keep on...

awesome video. I love playing in this track in RFactor simulator more than any other. undoubtedly the best challenge in all history (since now all motorsports are for boys, comparing to these men and machines)

I drove the circuit in 2003. Unbelievable feeling imaging it in a racing car. Beautiful landscape, perhaps the finest location ever conceived for a motor race.

The fact that the TT is still going on 43 years after the Targa Florio folded due to safety concerns is a modern wonder and I'm so thankful racing such as what this was, and the TT still is, is still going on somewhere in the world.

I'm sure you were going in the wrong direction in some clips?? At 10.14 for example?

Bravo! This is a great look at an era I describe as "When Real Men Drove Real Race Cars!"

Wow. Great mini doc. What a race. Only in Italy.

..the Targa has to be rejuvenated, like the mille miglia. Can‘t understand why the left it rotten, EU spends so many money on bullshit, this would be worth it.

My idea of Heaven is driving the circuit on a beautiful day in a Matra 670. No other traffic and if you screw up everything just resets to the last corner you got right. The sound of that Matra V12 would be marvelous to hear echoing off the hills. Ah well, no harm in dreaming....

what was your lap time, since the circuit doesn't exist?

As soon as I see a talking head I skip ahead. Please no talking faces. Cars and track only.

8 years a bit late to comment but I recently just came back from holiday in Sicily and I had to go and see the Targa Florio layout! I unfortunately I only went to Collesano at the museum which was an awesome little place that had all sorts memobrillia over the years. I wanted to go to another museum which had all sorts race cars on display such as the Alfa Romeo 33 about 30 mins away from Collesano but I had very little time to take in the history and amazing scenery. I did drive through a section that was used for Targa Florio a selection of twisty corners bumps that threw in your face I can only imagine what must of been like in 60s 70s with cars that are capable of 200mph+ amazing! I will definitely go back to Sicily as I left with amazing memories to take with me back in the UK!

Someday I will go there. The Piccolo circuit is truly one of the most amazingly long and scenic race tracks on Earth.

In the early 60's the races I folllowed were Monaco, Spa, Nurburg, Lemans and the TargeFlorio, but the one that I loved the most was the Targa. To me that was the greatest of them all, a REAL RACE, balls to the walls.

Superb. Lovely cinematography as always.

Very cool! So much history.Thanks for video🏁

I just spent a few weeks in Sicily for vacation. I came to the Targa Florio, and I did each of the 3 layouts of the track. How magnificent this must of been in its prime. The balls and commitment to race this super windy and twisty road is abusive and demanding. 800+ turns in the Grande layout of hairpins, switchbacks and everything in between. Unfortunately the road condition is in parts non existent and the road has decayed to the natural mountain terrain. Anyone who loves racing must come and drive all these layouts. Must respect the TT still runs racing today.