Nino Vaccarella won the 55 Florio in 1971 paired with Toine Hezemans

Three Porsche versus three Alfa Romeo 33s. The fastest Alfa cars in the test start in front and win the first and the second place overall with Vaccarella-Hezemans and De Adamich-Van Lennep. The Porsche cars suffer many accidents and remain out of the final classification