{"id":91491,"date":"2022-08-26T10:47:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T09:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/?p=91491"},"modified":"2022-09-01T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:57:38","slug":"the-road-to-success-pirellis-debut-in-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/activities\/the-road-to-success-pirellis-debut-in-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Success:<br> Pirelli\u2019s Debut in Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organised by the Automobile Club di Milano, the Carovana Automobilistica Milano-Roma was set in motion in <strong>April 1904<\/strong>. It was a great test for <strong>Pirelli<\/strong>, which fitted its <strong>Ercole<\/strong> tyres, the first model of which was patented in 1901, on Eisenach and Isotta Fraschini cars. The following year came the <strong>Susa-Moncenisio<\/strong> race: Giuseppe Tamagni\u2019s Marchand was fitted with Pirelli tyres and had a good race, although it unfortunately ended early due to a broken gearbox. Bruno Corbetta\u2019s Darracq fared better, coming third in Category 2, and so did Giovanni Piena\u2019s little Peugeot B\u00e9b\u00e9, which was second in Category 3. Witnesses said they crossed the finish line \u201cwith their pneus intact\u201d: \u201cpneus Pirelli\u201d, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the dawn of motor racing, the Long P logo has been part of the action. March 1906 saw the first Settimana Automobilistica di Sanremo, in which Tamagni, again in his Marchand with Ercole tyres, took top spot in Category 1. This was Pirelli\u2019s first real victory in motor racing. 1907 marked the start of a mammoth international undertaking: the Itala with Pirelli tyres triumphed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/it\/iniziative\/storie-dal-mondo-pirelli\/1907-2017-la-pechino-parigi-compie-110-anni\/\">Peking-Paris Motor Race<\/a>. The sensational feat became headline news and the following year Pirelli took on the <strong>New York-Paris<\/strong> \u2013 almost right round the world \u2013 fitting out Emilio \u201cGiulio\u201d Sirtori\u2019s<strong> Z\u00fcst<\/strong>. At his side was the journalist Antonio Scarfoglio of <em>Il Mattino <\/em>of Naples. The race went from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, and then up to Alaska, before crossing the ocean and, from Siberia, reaching all the way to the finish in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Alberto Pirelli was there on the morning of <strong>12 July 1913<\/strong>, at the Grand Prix of the Automobile Club de France, where <strong>Jacques Boillot<\/strong> was not among the favourites and yet was the first to cross the finish line on the Picardie Circuit. The runner-up was Louis Goux: both of them in Peugeots with \u201cPneumatiques Pirelli\u201d. 1913 was an amazing year: from the Gulf of Palermo to the hairpin bends of the Madonie, the <strong>Targa Florio<\/strong> was a furious challenge for the drivers and for their cars and equipment. <strong>Felice Nazzaro<\/strong> took the podium, winning aboard his Pirelli-tyred Fiat. On the same day, Boillot triumphed in the speed race at the Meeting de la Sarthe at Le Mans. Pirelli clocked up victory after victory in car racing across the world and the history of Pirelli became intertwined with that of a track that is now preparing to celebrate its first century: the Monza racing circuit.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/exhibition\/the-monza-circuit-and-pirelli-two-birthdays-to-celebrate\/\"><strong>Back to the main page<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organised by the Automobile Club di Milano, the Carovana Automobilistica Milano-Roma was set in motion in April 1904. It was a great test for Pirelli, which fitted its Ercole tyres, the first model of which was patented in 1901, on Eisenach and Isotta Fraschini cars. The following year came the Susa-Moncenisio race: Giuseppe Tamagni\u2019s Marchand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":91316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Road to Success: Pirelli\u2019s Debut in Racing - Fondazione Pirelli<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/activities\/the-road-to-success-pirellis-debut-in-racing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Road to Success: Pirelli\u2019s Debut in Racing - Fondazione Pirelli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Organised by the Automobile Club di Milano, the Carovana Automobilistica Milano-Roma was set in motion in April 1904. 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