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1947 Bari Grand Prix

motor car race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2023
Entity authorityQ18084606 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1st Bari Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 13 July 1947 at the Lungomare Circuit, in Bari, Italy. The 50-lap race was won by Achille Varzi in an Alfa Romeo 158, who also started from pole and set fastest lap.

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“1947 Bari Grand Prix” enters the record as motor car race. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bari, Grand and Prix can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bari, Grand and Prix.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q18084606. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “1947 Bari Grand Prix” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.