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Both gentlemen drivers of the Coppa d’Oro and overall winners of the Mille Miglia entered the race. Naming: Luigi Villoresi, Giovanni Bracco, Eugenio Castellotti, Clemente Biondetti, Piero Taruffi, Count Giannino Marzotto.
Other drivers would later run on Formula One races: Luigi Villoresi, Luigi Piotti, Felice Sonetto, Luigi Fagioli, Maria Teresa de Filippis, and Count Wolfang Berghe von Trips , almost the new Formula One World Champion but tragically passed away in 1961 on Monza racetrack. Among the foreigners many pilots who partecipated to the top competitions on road and on racetrack in Italy and Europe.

For istance: Louis Pons, Marc Gignoux, Olivier Gendebien, Richard Steed, Tom Cole, Otto Mathé , Ludwig Blendl, Paul Ernst Strahle. Drivers to number among the motor builders were: Piero Dusio of Cisitalia, Renato Danese and Jean Rèdélé founder of the Alpine. Two masters of the Italian car styling in the world: Elio Zagato and Giovanni “Nuccio” Bertone. See the Golden Book for all the details on drivers.
Both gentlemen drivers of the Coppa d’Oro and overall winners of the Mille Miglia entered the race. Naming: Luigi Villoresi, Giovanni Bracco, Eugenio Castellotti, Clemente Biondetti, Piero Taruffi, Count Giannino Marzotto.The most famous car manufacturers did partecipate to the Coppa d’Oro: Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Volkswagen, Ford, Lotus, Peugeot, Renault, Simca.

But not to forget to mention the lost brands, whose names recall the roars and enhance the cleverness of their authors: Osca, Stanguellini, Bandini, Moretti, Cisitalia, Giaur-Urania, Giannini, Patriarca, Siata, Ermini, Panhard Dyna, Triumph, Gordini, Denzel.