ALFA ROMEO 1924-1951: IL DOMINIO NEI GRAN PREMI (2 VOLUMI)
Alfa Romeo 1924-1951: il dominio nei gran premi, 174 victories in 260 races in major international motor racing Grand Prix.
This is the formidable record collected by Alfa Romeo between 1924 and 1951, a record on which all the fascination of this Italian manufacturer rests, and which fuelled that unique myth in history that still fascinates many thousands of fans.
The author, Stefano Pandolfi, has retraced, one by one, the 260 races that have seen the House of Biscione as protagonist, basing his work on official documents of the time, covering also the activity in South America, which played a major role when Europe was blacked out due to the Second World War, and the ice races in Scandinavia.
A painstaking work that makes us relive, also through the colourful prose of newspapers of the time, the greatness of drivers like Ascari, Brilli Peri and Campari, who enabled Alfa Romeo to win the World Championship for Makes - hence the inclusion of the laurel crown on the badge.
Nuvolari and Varzi, great rivals as teammates or with different teams, at the time of the great duels with Mercedes and Auto Union, to which belongs the incredible success of "Nivola" in the German Grand Prix at Nürburgring.
And then the cars, the P2 and P3, with technicians like Vittorio Jano, and Enzo Ferrari. The Alfa Romeo 158/159 epic is the one closest to us: an extraordinary period that saw the absolute domination of the Milanese manufacturer from 1946 to 1951 with victories in the first post-war Grand Prix, and in the first F1 World Championship with the three F - Fagioli, Farina and Fangio.
And the technical comparison between Alfa's supercharged 1.5-litre and Ferrari's atmospheric 4.5-litre set-up, which ended with the success of Alfetta ending a period of international supremacy that began in 1924.
924 pages and 1500 images, in colour and b/w.
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