Mugello Circuit

The start-finish line of historic road circuit (1955).

Road races were held on public streets around Mugello from the 1920s. Giuseppe Campari won there in 1920 and 1921, and Emilio Materassi took victories in 1925, 1926 and 1928. The Mugello GP was revived in 1955 and from the 1964 to 1969 as a Targa Florio-like road race consisting of eight laps of 66.2 km each, including the Passo della Futa. The anticlockwise track passed the towns of San Piero a Sieve, Scarperia, Violla, Firenzuola, Selva, San Lucia. It counted towards the 1965, 1966 and 1967 World Sportscar Championship season. The last WC race was won[4] by Udo Schütz and Gerhard Mitter in a Porsche 910. After two Porsche wins, 1968 saw the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 of Luciano Bianchi, Nanni Galli and Nino Vaccarella prevail over the Porsche driven by Rico Steinemann and Jo Siffert. In 1969, Arturo Merzario won with an Abarth 2000, and he won again in 1970 with the same car, where Abarth finished 1–2–3 with Leo Kinnunen and Gijs van Lennep finishing second and third respectively.

The 1970 event brought about the end of the 66 km Mugello public road circuit; a seven-month-old baby was killed when local racer Spartaco Dini crashed his Alfa Romeo GTA into a group of people at the village of Firenzuola during a private test there, when the roads were open to the public (the roads were only closed on race day and for qualifying). Four other people, including two young children, were seriously injured. Although there had only been one previous fatality at the original Mugello circuit (that of Günther Klass in 1967), the incident badly damaged the event's reputation, and the 1970 race turned out to be the last one held on the public road circuit, which was won once again by Merzario. After the incident, Dini spent two months in prison, and after his time served he left Italy and did not return for many years.

The main straight of permanent circuit (2011).

The present-day closed Mugello circuit was constructed in 1973 and opened in 1974, about 5 km east from the easternmost part of the original road circuit. The circuit was used for the in-season test during the 2012 Formula One season, by all teams except HRT. An unofficial track record of 1:21.035 was set by Romain Grosjean during the test.[5] The track was praised by Mark Webber, who stated that he "did 10 dry laps today around Mugello, which is the same as doing 1000 laps around Abu Dhabi track in terms of satisfaction".[6] Four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel said “unfortunately we don’t have this track on the calendar. It’s an incredible circuit with a lot of high-speed corners”.[7] Vitaly Petrov was however critical of the decision to test at Mugello, claiming the circuit was "unsafe".[8]

On 10 July 2020, it was announced that the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix on the circuit would be the ninth race in the 2020 Formula One calendar, marking the 1000th Grand Prix for Ferrari.[9]

Note: The 1926 race was held on the Cascine circuit.[16][17]

Year	Driver	Constructor	Class	Report
1970	Arturo Merzario	Abarth	Sports car	Report
1969	Arturo Merzario	Abarth		Report
1968	Lucien Bianchi Nino Vaccarella Nanni Galli	Alfa Romeo		Report
1967	Gerhard Mitter Udo Schütz	Porsche		Report
1966	Gerhard Koch Jochen Neerpasch	Porsche		Report
1965	Mario Casoni Antonio Nicodemi	Ferrari		Report
1964	Gianni Bulgari	Porsche		Report
1956–1963	Not held
1955	Umberto Maglioli	Ferrari	Sports car	Report
1930–1954	Not held
1929	Gastone Brilli-Peri	Talbot	Grand Prix	Report
1928	Emilio Materassi	Talbot	Formula Libre	Report
1927	Not held
1926	Emilio Materassi	Itala	Formula Libre	Report
1925	Emilio Materassi	Itala		Report
1924	Giuseppe Morandi	OM		Report
1923	Gastone Brilli-Peri	Steyr		Report
1922	Alfieri Maserati	Isotta Fraschini		Report
1921	Giuseppe Campari	Alfa Romeo		Report
1920	Giuseppe Campari	Alfa Romeo		Report