Consalvo Sanesi, born in 1911 in Terranuova Bracciolini, near Florence, and died in Milan in 1998 where he had moved as a child with his family. Like many men at Alfa, he lived in Corso Sempione, a few hundred metres from Portello, where he was taken on as a mechanic by Jano, thanks to a […]
The nineteenth century was the century of the steam locomotive and the bicycle, of the frock coat and of formalism; the twentieth century was the century of progress and futurism with a new car that, once goggles and dust-coat were worn, inspired autonomy, independence and freedom. From the slow coaches and stagecoaches, in fact people […]
The Società Anonima Scuderia Ferrari was established at the end of 1929, on occasion of a dinner at the Casa del Fascio offered by the Automobile Club of Bologna in honor of Alfieri Maserati and Baconin Borzacchini, stars of the final race of the season. That cheerful and convivial event was organized to celebrate the […]
100 Years of Car Racing Images and videos of the Alfa Romeo legend An extraordinary event to remember the 100th anniversary of one of the oldest and most illustrious car races, created in 1906 and interrupted during the two world war periods. A probably unrepeatable event not so much for the presence of rare and […]
The resounding result at the French Grand Prix held in Lyon on 3 August 1924 and won by Giuseppe Campari was only the beginning of the great Alfa Romeo legend. A new triumph awaited the P2s on October 19, in Monza, at the Italian Grand Prix which, although postponed for a month due to a […]
Great celebrations in Sicily for the 90th anniversary of the Targa Florio in May 1996. The Automobile Club of Palermo, at that time chaired by Tullio Laurìa, organized for the occasion a historical re-enactment of the mythical Sicilian race on those same hairpin bends of the Madonie that saw 10 times the stunning success of […]
The 1930 Targa race was one of the most exciting editions that ever took place on the Madonie. For some time, the expectations were for a fierce battle between the Bugatti cars, the favorites and many times champions on those mountain tracks, and the Alfa Romeo cars, recent stars of the Mille Miglia. The ever-increasing […]
… and to think that they were called P2 1925. L’ALFA – Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili – a young Milanese carmaker born from the bankrupt French Darracq, was gaining greater and greater recognition thanks to extraordinary victories in the world of racing. They were heroic times, made of amazing discoveries and great exploits also due […]
The creators of the Florio “lineage”, brothers Paolo and Ignazio, were born in Calabria, in Bagnara. After the earthquake of 1783, they moved to Palermo and still very young opened a drugstore in Via Materassai as traders of spices, water, quinine, balms, ointments, and colonial goods. It was an attractive and flourishing trade for wise […]
Gabriele D’Annunzio, Alcyone, 1902 and inscription at the base of the Coppa dell’Oltranza. “Zang tumb tumb … words in freedom”! As Filippo Maria Tommaso Marinetti and all the Futurist Group of a hundred years ago declaimed with enthusiasm and eagerness, worshippers of a new fascinating divinity: speed, but what would they say today in front […]