Francesco Ciuppa. (SPA 28/40 HP) 1909 May 2

The young Francesco Ciuppa from Palermo the winner on the 4th Targa Florio of 1909. The crisis crossed by the world motoring and the effects of the recent earthquake in Messina, compel Vincenzo Florio to modify his race, depriving it of the usual frame of worldliness. Vincenzo Florio compete with a Fiat too, but he will rank second behind the young man from Palermo