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  • ...measures 2½ feet in height. As seen here, it bears the image of William K. Vanderbilt II driving his record-setting Mercedes at Ormond Beach in 1904. The trophy [[Image:VanderbiltCup1910.jpg|thumb|left|Vanderbilt Cup race start, 1910]]
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  • Born in [[Troia]], [[Foggia]], [[Apulia]], [[Italy]], DePalma's family emigrated to the [[United States]] when he was eight years old. As a young ...the West Allis racetrack in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] during the 400-mile [[Vanderbilt Cup]]. Hospitalized for a considerable time, he recovered and was back to r
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  • ...rand Prix motor racing]], winning a number of major races, including the [[Vanderbilt Cup]] in the [[United States]] and twice setting a new [[land speed record] ...[Monte Carlo]] and was interred next to his wife Louise (1850-1920) in the family mausoleum in the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in Paris.
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  • ...llo''' in [[Pennsylvania]], he was known throughout his life as Kelly. His family moved to [[Los Angeles, California]] where they ran a grocery store. Petill In 1937 Petillo participated in the [[Vanderbilt Cup]] but engine problems forced him out of the race. Kelly Petillo encou
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  • ...ng]] driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent [[Whitney family]] of the [[United States]]. ...[[United Kingdom|British]] agronomist [[Leonard K. Elmhirst]] in 1925, the family moved to [[England]]. They lived at [[Dartington Hall]] where he attended t
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  • ...he lead. Sommer traveled to Long Island, New York to compete in the 1936 [[Vanderbilt Cup]] where he finished 4th to the winner, [[Tazio Nuvolari]].
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  • ...[[16 November]] [[1892]] to Arturo Nuvolari and his wife Elisa Zorzi. The family were well acquainted with motor racing as Arturo and his brother Giuseppe w | [[Vanderbilt Cup]]
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