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Maserati Gives And Receives Awards In A Evening Of Surprises At The Taormina Film FestivalBen Stiller wins the ‘Maserati Taormina Award’ and Maserati receives the ‘Taormina Arte Award’ as ‘The Best Advertisement of the Year’Maserati played a starring role in the Taormina Film Festival award ceremony held last night in the amazing backdrop of Teatro Greco, a befitting scenery to celebrate Maserati’s Centennial.The evening’s award ceremony saw Giulio Pastore, General Manager Maserati Europe, giving the ‘Maserati Taormina Award’ to American actor Ben Stiller. Stiller was chosen in recognition of the close affinity between Maserati and the character that he masterfully portrayed in the movie ‘The secret life of Walter Mitty’. As Walter Mitty dreamed of displaying the strength, intelligence, looks and courage he knew he possessed, so too Maserati was born from a dream – that of Alfieri Maserati and his brothers – which became a reality in Bologna in 1914, one hundred years ago. The Maserati brothers took 12 years to build their first car, but when the Tipo 26 made its racing debut in 1926, it simply stunned the giants of the automobile industry by winning Sicily’s Targa Florio, one of the most famous and demanding races of that era.
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