Gigi Villoresi pilots a Lancia D24 toward retirement at Sebring, 1954, just about the only big event the advanced sports racer failed to win during its all-too-brief career. Designed by GP veteran Vittorio Jano, it featured a 3.3 V6, a transaxle, and all-inboard brakes. Photo: Ozzie Lyons www.petelyons.com
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Let’s Hail Lancia’s Hundreth!

Pete Lyons

In the boisterous opera that has been Italian auto racing, one of the grandest of performers made just the briefest of appearances. Fewer than three full race seasons, from early 1953 to mid-1955; that was all the time Gianni Lancia got to try to remake the marque his father had founded.

Pete Lyons
Pete Lyons

Thinking to brighten the venerable firm’s established image for prestige passenger cars, Gianni plunged into motorsport at the highest, costliest level.

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