Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

* Curami / Vergnano, "' La Sport ' e i suoi artigiani " – Italian domestic sports car competition from the 1930s – 1960s and the ' specials ' that competed in it.

Although Parma has never won a domestic league title and never competed for major trophies until the 1990s, it has won three Italian Cups, one Supercoppa Italiana, two UEFA Cups, one European Super Cup and one UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup.

In 1933, Burcham and Lt. Tito Falconi of the Italian Air Service competed in setting inverted flight endurance records.

A few seasons later Bologna became champions of Italy for the second time in 1928 – 29 giving them a foothold in Italian football, building up a legacy, this was the last time the league was competed in the old system, Serie A was instated the following year.

In the 1960s two extraordinary riders competed in the races: Tarquinio Provini, who won the Italian Championship with the 250 in 1965 and Renzo Pasolini who won the Championship with the 250 as well as the 350 in 1968 and 1969.

Virtus ' best season, as measured by trophies won, was 2000-01, when it won the Italian League, Italian Cup, and Euroleague titles all in the same season, giving the club the coveted Triple Crown championship for the year ( though the latter came against the field that did not include all of Europe's national champions as some of them competed in FIBA Suproleague that year ).

Founded in 1971, the team competed in the North American Soccer League ( NASL ) until 1984 and was the strongest franchise in that league, both competitively and financially – based largely around its backing by Warner Communications President Steve Ross, which enabled it to sign internationally famous stars such as the Brazilian forward Pelé, Italian striker Giorgio Chinaglia and the West German sweeper Franz Beckenbauer.

Since leaving The Bold and the Beautiful, he has starred in several feature films including Carpool Guy directed by Corbin Bernsen and competed in the third season of the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars in 2006.

In his youth he fiercely competed with fellow Italian riders Giuliano Figueras and especially Danilo Di Luca who proclaimed he would have won the U-23 World Championship himself had it not been for the team tactics.

At the start of the 2010 – 11 season, two new Italian entrants competed in the league.

MV Agusta in 2008 competed in the Italian Superbike Championship.

Some dispute this and claim that the club's roots date back to 1926, the founding of U. S. Fiumana, which competed in various levels of the Italian Football Championship, including a season in the top tier competition ( Divisione Nazionale ) in 1928.

Early into its existence, the Italian Football Championship was limited to just Northern clubs, so Southern clubs competed against sailors or in cups such as Thomas Lipton's Lipton Challenge Cup.

first took part Italian football league in 1912-13 season, where they competed in the top division.

Coloni competed during the 1970s and after participating in the Italian Formula 3 series for several years, he won the drivers ' title in 1982 when he was 36 years old.

He competed in the Italian Formula Three Championship between 1981 and 1985, winning the title in his final year in a Dallara-Volkswagen with future Formula One team Forti Corse, and finishing as runner up in the Monaco Grand Prix Formula 3 support race in the same year.

He came 4th in the 1964 Rome Grand Prix after retiring from the previous year's event, and subsequently competed in Italian Formula 3.

The son of Italian immigrants, he is one of the few people to have competed in both motorcycle and Formula One Grand Prix.

He also competed in the French and Italian Grands Prix, taking a best finish of sixth at Monza.

He raced in many categories and competed in sports car racing and touring cars until the late 1990s, driving a works Osella sports prototype in endurance racing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and also taking part in the factory Alfa Romeo team in the CIVT ( Italian Superturismo ) and the DTM.

The club was formed in 1936 and currently plays in Italian Serie A. Pescara has competed in six seasons in Serie A, 1977 – 78, 1979 – 80, 1987 – 88, 1988 – 89, 1992 – 93, 2012 – 13 ).

Therefore, only a few of the top riders in the world competed, including the Italian eventing team and the current European champion in dressage, Austrian Sissy Theurer.

Also a member of the Italian national team, Albertini was part of the squads that competed at the World Cups of 1994 and 1998, as well as the 1996 and 2000 European Championships.

Cars from all three classes would contest the Australian Touring Car Championship as well as non-championship Australian touring car events such as the Bathurst 1000 ; but for the purposes of race classification and points allocation, cars competed in two classes:

The Starlet was also competed in Starlet One Make Race in Japan, the Indonesian Touring Car Championship, and Rallies in the Caribbean.

In June 2012, Swiss racing driver Alain Menu competed in the World Touring Car Championship Race of Portugal with a Vaillante-themed livery.

He competed on the circuits in Sports 2000, Thundersports and eventually graduated to the European Touring Car Championship with semi-works BMWs.

* Lo Ka Fai ( born 1976 ), a racecar driver who competed in the Asian Touring Car Championship

Luis Pérez-Sala Valls-Taberner ( born 15 May 1959 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish former racing driver who competed in Formula One, Formula 3, Formula 3000 and Touring Cars.

In 2003 he was a test driver for Renault F1, also doing a little TV work for ITV, but the next year he returned to his successful sports car racing career, winning the 12 Hours of Sebring, combining this in 2005 with a venture into the highly competitive DTM ( German Touring Car Championship ), where he competed against the likes of former F1 men Mika Häkkinen and Jean Alesi.

In 2006, Naspetti competed in the opening two rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship ( WTCC ) for the independent GDL Racing team in a BMW 320i.

Cecotto competed in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship driving a CiBiEmme BMW M3 alongside Gianfranco Brancatelli.

From 1988 to 1992, Cecotto competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft ( DTM, German Touring Car Championship ).

In 1996, Bailey competed in the South African Touring Car Championship ( SATCC ) for Minolta Toyota.

He competed in Formula 3000 in 1987 and spent three years in Spanish Touring Cars, from 1994 until 1996.

From 2002 until 2008 he competed in the SCCA Speed World Challenge Series racing as a Mazda Factory Driver for Tri Point Motorsports, first in their Mazda Protege Touring Cars and then in their Mazda 6 Touring Cars, winning the Touring Car Championship in 2007.

Philip Andersen is a Danish race car driver born 15 November 1980 who competed in the Danish Touring Car Championship from 2003 until 2004.

He competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 1991, filled in for one race in 1992, and returned in 1996 for Nissan, after four years as a works Peugeot driver in Italian Superturismo.

These legendary engines competed in Japan's Touring Sedan ( TS ) class races against the 1200s archrival Toyota Starlet.

In 2007 Jourdain competed in the FIA World Touring Car Championship for SEAT Sport.

During his 2005 BTCC campaign, he also competed in three rounds of the World Touring Car Championship ( WTCC ) for SEAT Sport.